to a career and life you lis enjoy and today is another corner office insights

video where I share at leadership advice for those of you who are managers senior

managers directors or c-suite level executives to help you and your team's

improve their performance

as a career strategist I've had the honour of being able to help numerous

professionals land their dream job careers and if this is something that

you are interested in working with me one-on-one I can give you details about

that at the end of this video and today we're going to talk about employee

engagement and I'm going to share with you my key strategy that you need to

implement if you really want to engage your employees and have them be more

motivated work harder and drive success in your company now before we talk about

employee engagement I want to explain a cold hard truth that you need to

understand first and that is in order to have engaged employees you need to be an

engaged manager first there's a concept that I'd like to tell people about and

it's what I call the world is your mirror and it's really that the world is

your mirror whatever is reflecting back to you from your external world is do

the result of something that's going on within you so if you are finding that

your employees are not engaged in on your team in your company then it has

something to do with a lack of potential engagement from within yourself so if

you were to be honest with yourself can you truly say that you are fully engaged

as a manager every day 100% of the time I mean I'm sure that you can find that

there would be hints here and there of lack of engagement within yourself and

so if that's the case it should be no surprise that there's lack of engagement

in your employees as well so today I'm going to help you and your employees and

I'm going to show you three signs to know what employee engagement actually

looks like and the step-by-step solution to implement if it's not their sign

number one they work hard every day with pure intention and passion to get their

work done well and to have strong results you know that an employee is

engaged when you can visibly see it when you can see that they're working hard

every day when they come into the office they have that pure passion and

intention to do well to deliver high quality work and to achieve strong

results now there's a difference between looking as though the

work hard versus actually working hard the results speak for themselves and so

if you're able to see the hard work and also see the results of it then you know

that that means that the employee is doing their job they're doing it well

and they have an intention to do it well sign number two of an engaged employee

they're always improving something they have the mindset I want to make things

better more efficient more productive and they don't just sit there and talk

about it you see them actually going out there and doing it they're making

improvements they've made efficiencies happen they've suggested recommendations

that have been taken into account in that people have been able to use and

benefit from that shows an engaged employee when they're always improving

and looking to make improvements ensign number three of an engaged

employee they are helpful and knowledgeable the employees who are

helpful and who have created a brand for themselves to be seen as the go-to

advisors the knowledge champions the experts in their role and are willing

and able to help others and provide others with information that they need

they are also truly engaged in their job because they wouldn't put themselves in

that situation if they didn't have the desire to be able to share their

knowledge and help others they know that others rely and depend on them and

they're happy to be there so now I have to turn the table back on to you are you

an engaged employee yourself as a manager do you exhibit these three

traits daily and if you are truly honest with yourself and you find that you

aren't demonstrating these things on a regular basis then you have to start to

understand why that is because you can't expect to have engaged employees if you

yourself are not engaged because here's another truth the only way that your

employees are going to feel truly motivated the way that you want them to

be is if you demonstrate that energy first it's interesting how people don't

realize that as managers you have a lot of influence over your employees the way

you are the way you feel the way that you present yourself is going to have an

impact on your direct reports and they're either going to feel good and

also be motivated or they're not so if you find that

either you're not engaged or your employees are not engaged or both this

is how you would reengage a disengaged employee before we talk about what to do

let's talk about what not to do do not scare your employees into working harder

by threatening them with the idea that they'll lose their job they're acting

this way not because they decided to entirely you as their manager play a big

role in their behavior and if you don't take ownership for that you need to

start to because a truly influential leader understands the impact that they

have on the people who they influence so don't try to impose your power over them

by scaring them and telling them that they need to get back into shape or else

that's poor management style if you think that the only way to motivate your

unmotivated employees is to scare them through fear then you don't really fully

understand your role as a manager so let's say that I'm being overly

presumptuous and I'm saying that you're not engaged yourself let's just say that

you are very engaged and that you really want to motivate your team but you've

gotten to a point where there's one or two individuals who are completely

disengaged and you want to re-engage them because they are good employees

they have done good work in the past and you want to remote of eight them and

bring them back bring them back to the level that they were at what do you do

then the answer is to figure out the source reason to understand the root of

their disengagement so what does that mean it means sit down with your

employee give yourselves both sacred time and space to be together one-on-one

so that they can open up and explain / discuss their issues and in this

discussion as the manager there are three things that you want to tell them

tell them in a genuine way that you have their best interests in mind when it

comes to helping them to grow as an employee in the organization a lot of

the time when we tell someone that we have their best interest in mind they

may actually ignore that and they may not want to hear it but when you support

it with the next two things it's going to be more convincing

the second thing that you want to tell them is how much you recognize their

value and again you want to be genuine about this so bring up specific

instances specific accomplishments that they were able to achieve throughout the

time that they worked with you and how much you appreciated it and how much

that they were able to make a contribution to the company and then

finally you'll end it off by telling them that in order to help them to truly

get back on track you want to fully understand what it is that's getting in

their way and what's causing them to feel the way that they're feeling these

days so once they tell you their reasons as to why they're feeling this way why

they're feeling disengaged and they actually open up that is when you can

start to come up with a plan together to implement new solutions that will

mitigate what it is that they're feeling an employee can become disengaged in a

multitude of ways perhaps they feel that they do deserve a step up in their

career but you haven't been offering them opportunities for advancement

perhaps they feel as though they're not being heard they may have said things in

the past to you that have indicated certain requests and you just completely

ignored and never took them up on it never considered them there's so many

reasons why an employee can be disengaged if you were truly an engaged

manager though you wouldn't this wouldn't be a surprise to you you would

have seen it right away as soon as it started happening and you can catch it

before it becomes a situation where you're having to go through this whole

discussion and trying to get them back on track instead you want to be an

engaged manager by really connecting with your employees listening to what it

is that they're asking for paying attention and then being able to work

together collaborate and offer solutions that are going to not only help to

engage them continue to maintain their engagement but help you as a manager to

have a happy productive team so there you have it my key strategies on how to

increase employee engagement within yourself and within your team now if

you're someone who's on this path of searching for a new career

you've been interviewing for a while but you haven't received any success and

you're ready for one-on-one professional guidance feel free to reach out to

me head on over to my website lindaraynier.com/standoutgethired read

through the page fill out the application form and if I think that we

may be a match either myself or a team member of mine will reach out to you

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