Poor Employee Engagement....or Poor Leadership ?

The ILM posted a good, thought provoking article in the Edge Online Magazine this week looking at the subject of maintaining employee engagement during the difficult business conditions that most employers are currently facing.


The article touches on the issue of how the term "employee engagement" can be misused within organisations, often looking to blame the employees for various ills within the business rather than actively looking to address these ills!  Low employee engagement is, more often than not, a sign of poor leadership rather than some inherent negative quality that the employees possess.




In many ways, low levels of employee engagement can be seen as a massive opportunity to do better  rather than an excuse for doing badly.  But how can we ensure that we continue to motivate our employees during these difficult business times ?  The answer is actually more straight forward than many people think.  The difficult market and business conditions actually create a perfect opportunity for us to stretch and challenge our employees (in a positive way) to find innovate and cost effective solutions to allow the organisation to continue to flourish.


It may not always be easy but give your employees the headroom and you'll be surprised how often then come up with good, workable and effective ideas....after all, we've selected good people and trained them well to do their jobs.....if we continue to communicate with them and set them challenging goals within the allowable constraints of the current business climate then we have every reason to believe that they will rise to the challenge and deliver results......and maintain high levels of motivation as a result !


<Read the ILM article here.>