Creating Powerful Employee Engagement Experiences

As part of YellowSeeds Creative Coaching and Consulting Services, one of our Seed Service is Powerful Employee Engagement.

Every Service @YellowSeeds has a seed that started growing long time ago. This is the story about this one…

When I faced the challenge of taking an Employee Engagement Leadership role 5 yrs ago, I had the following questions in front of me:

• How can I engage our team and make them feel part of the organization, if they spend most of their time in client sites?

• How can I create valuable spaces for engagement if they are too busy?

• How can I build trust in using surveys and create other spaces for feedback, if they don’t believe on it?

• How can I even expand it globally and engage the teams in India, Romania, Mexico and China?

And the most Utopian question was: How can I make them feel part of a family?

I always believe that intention is the most important aspect of what we do, and what will define the outcome. My first intention was what I call: My Genuine Intention to engage them.

Then, I created the other pillars of what I call now Colorful Employee Engagement:

• Communication Transparency

• Inspirational engagement

• Create powerful experiences for your teams

• Co-creating engagement spaces with your team (they are part of the solution)

Let’s start with the first pillar: My Genuine Intention to engage them.

When we have a genuine intention, people can see that there is a congruency in what you think, what you say and more specially what you do. That is a key aspect of building trust. If we say one thing and do another, congruency breaks as trust does too. We all know that trust takes a lot to be built and a few seconds to be broken.

So the questions I want to leave you to reflect on this are:

• Are you genuine at work? Are you the same than at home?

• Do you have a genuine intention to engage with your team? Or Do you do it because you are required to (mark the check box)?

• Are your messages congruent with your actions and the decisions you are making?

• How can you show your genuine intention to engage?

We will talk more about the other pillars of Powerful Employee Engagement in our next blog post. Stay Colorful!