Recognizing and Engaging Employees For Dummies

Chapter 2

Strategies for an Engaged Workforce

In This Chapter

Encouraging employees to take initiative

Increasing employee autonomy

Focusing on career growth and development

By being proactive, positive, focused, and forward-looking, managers can engage and inspire employees — and employees can inspire and engage themselves and their coworkers — in practical ways that yield real results and allow their companies to become stronger, more profitable, and more competitive in even the most difficult marketplace.

Taking control of their circumstances helps employees take control of their jobs — and their lives — and makes positive things happen. Companies that have had increasing engagement scores over the last decade have revealed a short list of key variables attributing to those results, and this chapter focuses on those variables. Here, I show you how to create a framework for managing employees in positive and practical ways to overcome negative times and circumstances. I offer a strategy, a process, and key factors critical to success for you, all supported with examples, techniques, and case studies of how other managers have succeeded in fostering more engaged employees.

Creating ...