If Your Communication would be Water, Would you Drink from It?

In my previous post, I shared the story of one of our Seed Services @ YellowSeeds: Powerful Employee Engagement.

We talked about the story of this seed and the pillars I built to create colorful experiences for the teams I worked with.

• Your Genuine Intention to engage them

• Communication Transparency

• Inspirational engagement

• Create powerful experiences for your teams

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

We explored the concept of Your Genuine Intention to engage them, so we will continue with the next one: Communication Transparency.

Communication transparency is key for any employee engagement strategy. It is a way to show your congruency, are you saying one thing and acting on it? Or are you communicating one thing and doing something different? Congruency builds trust. Can your team trust you?

My first experience with engagement or feedback surveys was that usually 95% of people didn’t believe on them. I learned that when we ran the first survey and we got a very low % of participation. I couldn’t understand why people missed the opportunity to have a voice.

I learned later that there was a kind of visualization around feedback surveys, that goes like this: “all responses goes to a black cloud and none does anything with it”.

That was a great challenge for me, I will make that cloud colorful!

If you want to be transparent in your communications, you will need to show results as they are, specially if they are bad results. An in a short period of time, you will need to share the actions being taken to address the concerns and issues shared with you in the surveys. And keep being congruent and sharing progress on them over time.

This is just one example of communication transparency, but one important aspect is that being transparent on your communications with your team, is the story telling of your team. It continues over time.

So what is the story telling of your team? Would you make a good book from it?

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