If You Care About Employee Engagement, Get This Right

​There are any number of issues that can undermine an organization’s efforts to engage its employees.
 
One of which is a failure to embed a set of core values into every aspect of the business.
 
It’s critical to get them right, since so much depends on them:
 
✅ Describe “How we do things around here”, the code of conduct for an organization, what is allowed as a culture.
✅ Guide an organization and its people toward its mission, since they're a set of principles or fundamental beliefs.
✅ Ensure employees know exactly what is expected of them, and what behaviors they should model.
✅ Serve to attract like-minded people to the organization and deter those who will not be a good fit.
✅ Drive decision making – Just ask: “Does this make sense given our values?”
 
While it’s true that most leaders understand their importance, and, indeed, have made sure they're in place.
 
Often, that's as far as it goes, and, frequently, no-one even knows what the values are, if asked.
 
Even though they may be hanging right behind them, in a nice frame on the wall.
 
🚩 This fits with a Gallup finding that only 27% of employees strongly agree they believe in their organization’s values.
 
🚩 Yet a recent ihire survey found that 75.5% of employees say it’s very important to work for a company with a set of core values.
 
So, there is a definite disconnect.
 
𝘽𝙪𝙩, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙖 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.
 
Such as onboarding, training, feedback, recognition, performance evaluations and meetings.
 
Otherwise, organizations just may as well not bother, because just having them means nothing if they're not “lived”.
 
However, if they are embedded in everything and organization does, employee engagement will increase.
 
And engaged employees stay longer, are absent less, are more productive, and provide better customer service.
 
In addition, they become brand ambassadors, driving great candidates to want to come and work at the organization.
 
So, now may be the time to develop or revamp your core values.