This week my posts seem to be focusing quite heavily upon employee engagement and this is also a central theme in this weeks ILM "Edge" ENewsletter with an article entitled "Time for the Engaging Leader". The thrust of the article is that in these difficult times it is more important than ever to have your workforce on your side. To quote the article:
"Gaining the trust and confidence of employees means seeking their views and feedback, understanding any issues they have and seeking to address them. It’s about making open and honest dialogue the cornerstone of a stronger working relationship that will steer the organisation through uncertain times.
This is the time to build or strengthen a culture of real engagement at all levels of the organisation. There’s no doubt that this requires careful handling: leaders must seek to inspire employee confidence and commitment at a time when many uncertainties remain. But unless they realise and respond to the need for more proactive engagement, they will be leaving employee confidence to chance. And that’s too great a risk to take."
Without doubt, this is a theme that I fully endorse. Where organisations focus upon engaging their people I find that this release their knowledge and creativity and generates practical and workable ideas and solutions. Not only does this generate better ideas, it ensures that the solutions will have grass roots support at the point of implementation and therefore a strong commitment to make them succeed.
So, to help you succeed in 2011.....are you doing all you can to engage your people ?
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