Employee engagement has become the go-to mantra for businesses worldwide in the wake of the pandemic. Now that people do not need to work from the office all the time, creating a sense of belonging and psychological safety is even more important for businesses. This is the only effective way aside from direct salary hikes and far-reaching changes in organizational policy. And while those certainly have their place, starting with small steps that produce results always fuels good ideas and makes them more likely to succeed. So, check out the most common issues that businesses tackle under their employee engagement campaigns and how to fix them.
5 Signs Your Employee Employee Engagement Campaign Needs a Facelift
Low Productivity Rates
Key Takeaways:
- Low work engagement is a sign that your company is unhealthy
- Workers must be incentivized by the work culture to put in more effort
- Managers need support and apps like LEAD.bot help them drive employee engagement upward.
Every HR knows that certain metrics determine the overall competitive value of a business. Metrics like revenue per employee, cost of new hire, absenteeism, and employee performance are just some of the many metrics they utilize. All of these have something to do with how much productivity an employee, a team, a department, or a business can create per hour. This crucial estimate showcases the degree of engagement your employees have.
Now, let’s not jump the gun and say employees ought to be at work from the time they start to when they leave. On average, most employees work 5 to 6 hours a day in the US. In the UK, as per this article by Inc.com, actual productivity hours can be as low as 3 per day. So, how do we fix this problem? What can make people put in more effort for the hours they spend at work, whether in the office or working remotely?
The Answer – Employee Engagement Platforms
The solution to the low productivity hours is, as always a a combination of things. Team engagement and motivation, are spurred by a manager who can relate with your team members individually. A group bonding experience, something like a common chat forum where people can share ideas and keep each other enthused or at least, engaged. But most managers are already overworked this Forbes article mentions and in fact, could use some help. So, the answer comes via AI and team engagement apps like LEAD.bot. It uses random pairing and watercooler chats to bring people into conversations with each other and foster organizational culture growth and team bonding. It also offers AI-based prompts for setting watercooler group chat topics and offers mentorship templates along with new hire onboarding support.
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Low Voluntary Turnouts
Key Takeaways:
- Low enthusiasm for work events is a sign that employees are dissatisfied.
- Their dissatisfaction may be hampering your productivity or team spirit already.
- Using work process collaboration tactics like the buddy system can help reduce these bottlenecks
Okay, so you got yourself LEAD.bot or another employee engagement platform. So, what now? Are people going to sign up for the virtual coffee chat option? Do you have to force them to attend these things? This is where the true quality of the work environment of a business can be tested. For most people, a virtual coffee chat or a watercolor group chat session is a pleasant break from the regular flow of work. But if you are not in the habit of open communication then there might be problems in getting people to work it the way it’s supposed to.
In metric terms, McKinsey calls this the Organizational Health Index. It is a measure of how well-connected, happy, and engaged people at your organization really are. Building up job safety, psychological safety, sense of belonging and work-career growth satisfaction are some of the ways to increase your OHI score. But these do take some time. So, what do you do until then?
The Answer – Strategic Performance Partnerships
Strategic partnerships are kind of like the buddy system that the military and in fact, most schools use when pairing kids on projects. However, it is a bit more sophisticated than that, If you have an employee engagement platform like LEAD.bot, you know we use participant profiling to match individuals based on their personalities.
The strategic partnership process works in a similar way. It leverages personality insights collected non-invasively to generate work pairs on projects. In a way, it is similar to the Agile software development cycle. We pair people together while implementing employee engagement tactics and organically grow their mutual trust. This creates a sense of cooperation that can turn into lasting and healthy work relationships. In fact, strategic performance partnerships may even lead to peer learning and mentoring opportunities. Check out this CEO magazine article for more details on performance partnerships
Low Mentorship Completion Rates
Key Takeaways:
- Poor mentoring and planning for career growth create considerable employee burnout
- Using proper career advancement planning can overcome these challenges.
- LEAD.bot offers mentorship templates and also has custom design options to suit all kinds of mentorship needs.
Mentorships are the backbone of any business’ succession plan and workforce development cycle. A good business will have most, if not all of its people working towards some kind of new learning curve. In fact, all of the top Fortune 100 companies have a 100% mentorship program and it really does pay for itself many times over. So, if your company has low mentorship rates, it may be a sign that things are not good even if the performance is scalable. But how do you go about working up a mentorship program for your business? That usually requires consultancy-level insights and advisory support. Here’s a Deloitte Mentoring model guide if you are interested!
The Answer – Incentivized Career Growth Paths
It’s that simple when you get to fundamentals about mentorship and employee retention. An incentivized career growth plan with projected estimates based on industry averages is the perfect spice for the stew for any disengaged worker. We all look towards a better future and when a company shows its interest in grooming in-house talent, it leads to wonderful opportunities and responses from both sides. Further, with employee engagement apps like LEAD.bot, you can take up mentorship program formats that work well for you. You can also curate your own custom plan based on your needs all the while engaging your workers through the same app. Check out this blog to find out how our AI-supported mentorship program can help you outperform.
Manager/Team Member Feedback Shortage
Key Takeaways:
- 360-degree feedback often does not provide a clear picture due to inherent bias
- Incorrect feedback can demotivate workers while fueling rivalries.
- Using organizational network analytics helps create optimized network connections and tap into latent potential.
360-degree feedback models have become a somewhat overused staple of the HRM cycle. The problem with them is that people tend to overestimate their abilities and underestimate those of others. As a result, the feedback is of ten skewed and does not represent the full picture. The worst part is that they are often used to give feedback and are supposed to create more dialogue between different hierarchy levels. So, the solution to this problem is taking on company polls in a different way –ONA Surveys and People Analytics.
The Answer – Organizational Network Analytics
ONA is the new gold standard for developing networking and collaboration opportunities at businesses. They offer tremendous insights into workforce analytics and create value based on human factors rather than numbers. So, the quality of the work-life element of your business is something you can see reflected clearly in ONA reports. Further, you can use these insights to drive almost all the employee engagement tactics we have mentioned so far to even greater success.
High Employee Turnover
Key Takeaways:
- Lack of employee engagement creates workforce shortages across all industries.
- Companies must create engagement programs that foster more connectedness within teams,
- Using LEAD.bot’s employee engagement tactics helps businesses deploy combinations of tactics and bring people together more productively.
It’s no secret- employees leave when the work or pay is not up to their expectations. Or when they do not find the environment suitable. While this may be terrible, ‘quiet quitting’ when a person is just out sin minimum effort is even worse and can really bring your business down. However, the solution for this is a simple one as well. “Meaningful” work and career growth options go a long way in ensuring people are in the right place. But that is not enough, what you need is comprehensive team engagement at all levels of your organization.
The Answer – Comprehensive Employee Engagement
A high employee turnover rate is a massive liability for businesses. Fixing this problem requires direct intervention into disjointed team processes. Using virtual coffee chats, team watercoolers, mentoring options, and other tactics, you can gain greater working integrity even in larger teams within a short amount of time.
How Should You Approach Your Employee Engagement Campaigns?
Selecting the right employee engagement methods is a challenging task. Since there are many factors to consider and it may seem like they do not add value to productivity, understanding the balance between making genuine connections within teams and also driving productivity becomes a real challenge. Fortunately, LEAD.bot offers a tremendous range of employee engagement and team collaboration solutions that help businesses of all sizes overcome their employee engagement limitations and strive to succeed.
LEAD.bot is a team engagement platform available on Slack and Teams. It is an all-in-one team development software with features like virtual coffee chats, buddy programs, birthday celebrations & work anniversary celebrations, new hire onboarding programs, and Pulse Surveys.
LEAD.bot also offers cutting-edge Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) for big enterprises and institutions. Executive to mid-level managers use ONA to gain highly actionable insights and build strong workplace connections. Using this app enables developing innovative employee engagement ideas to connect employees and foster better organizational health, employee retention, and overall performance with this simple app!
LEAD.bot is a product of LEAD.app and we also LEAD.bot’s sister app Sunrize which showcases workplace attendance by graphs right on Slack! Book a demo now!
