Is your team fully engaged?
I was shocked to read a recent set of findings on the Gallup 2017 Global State of the Workforce. They showed that in Western Europe only 10% of those surveyed who were employees of an organisation considered themselves engaged! This means that 90% of the employees either consider themselves as not-engaged or, worse, actively disengaged. What was more worrying was the actual statistics for the UK:
Fully Engaged 8%
Disengaged 65%
Highly Disengaged 27%
Since the last study in 2016, this means there has been a drop in the UK from 14% to 8%, that can’t be good!
Do these figures apply to your business?
If they do and you were a rowing team of eight you would only have one person rowing your way! The others would either be sitting watching or maybe doing something to actively slow your boat down. I would not put any money on you getting a gold medal if that is the case in your business!
Having seen this, it is not a real surprise that the information from Deloitte Consulting in the article “The New World of Work” recently showed the following:
- The most important trend in business in 2016 was considered Culture and Engagement, with 87% rating as ‘important’ and 50% ‘very important’.
- Leadership gaps were seen as the second most important trend with 86% rating it as ‘important’ and 51% ‘very important’.
- Linked to these, the third most important trend is Learning and development with 86% rating this ‘important’ and 40% ‘very important’.
- The same survey also showed a dramatic shift in how people want to learn. Top learning type were “share knowledge with my team” with 87% selecting this. Company training was considered an appropriate learning tool by only 37%!!
So, what does this mean to you?
I guess there are two things I would ask you to consider:
- What is the level of engagement like in your business and how can you measure it?
- What could my business benefit from if engagement was higher across my team?
The sorts of benefits that have typically been seen in engaged teams are
- 62% fewer safety issues
- 55% lower staff turnover
- 3X more creativity in the team
- 37% lower absenteeism
- 22% more profit for the business
- 24% higher customer engagement
- 31% more productivity.
Are any of these areas that you are looking to improve?
You may ask, well why am I telling you this. The answer is that there is a new group of coaches called Engage and Grow of which Steve is a certified as an Engage and Grow Coach and Employee Engagement Strategist. The figures above are shocking and Steve felt that he wanted to give Businesses in the South West the opportunity to gain the tangible benefits available from having an engaged team. Engage and Grow take on the challenge about preferred learning style and as a result offer a series of bespoke facilitated team-based workshops, over an intensive program that are designed to maximise team engagement in the process of improving the heart and brain of any business.
Now, there’s a Challenging thought, which probably need attention!
