How to Improve Employee Engagement

Engaged employees contribute to higher innovation, productivity, and performance while helping lower costs.

Unfortunately, a study done by the Harvard Business Review found that only 24% of organizations believed their employees were highly engaged. 

There could be a few reasons employees aren't engaged. Still, according to Gallup, "managers account for at least 70% of variance in employee engagement scores." A 70% variance! Wow. 

In my leadership roles, including my time as CEO of a health center, I have experienced low employee engagement. We tend to want to blame it on external factors such as the economy or the customers. We often overlook our managers as contributors to low employee engagement, diminished productivity, and underperforming teams.

I always say there are no natural-born leaders. There are people who others naturally want to follow, but that doesn't make them effective managers and leaders. 

Great leaders:

✅Motivate employees to perform better.

✅Build a team culture around the mission and vision.

✅Are adaptable and can overcome adversity and resistance

✅Create a culture of accountability.

✅Build relationships both internally and externally.

✅And can make quick, effective decisions and act on them.

Look at your people leaders and ask yourself if they have the skills to motivate, inspire, and manage high-performing teams. Or do they need more training and support to become the leaders you want them to be?

Doors to my FQHC Leadership Academy will be opening soon. Inside the 5-month academy, I train leaders and aspiring leaders at Federally Qualified Health Centers how to effectively communicate with their teams and have difficult conversations, how to be adaptable and manage big and small changes, how to increase their team's performance by setting and hitting goals and targets, how to foster a positive culture, and how to grow and continue to learn as a leader and as a person. 

If you have leaders who could benefit from working with me for the next five months, join the waitlist. You'll receive information on when doors will open to my FQHC Leadership Academy this fall.

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