How to Improve Employee Engagement

Employee engagement has a direct impact on your company's profitability and productivity so building an employee engagement strategy should be a top priority to help develop your competitive advantage.

Your employees are the interface between your company and your customers and prospects, even if they are at the end of an email, phone call, eCommerce platform or back there in the warehouse. What they think, do, feel filters through to your customers. So it makes sense that the more engaged they are with their work and the service they provide, the better that customer experience will be.

Improving employee engagement will help increase staff productivity as they take on more ownership of service delivery issues and create more effective communications with team members.

Improving Employee Engagement Lifts Customer Loyalty and Spend

The best employees want to feel they have a voice, are respected and that their opinions and work are valued. Building a positive service culture will help improve employee loyalty and increase employee retention rates. This lifts the front-line delivery and service experience, driving increased customer loyalty and a higher customer lifetime value. It increases staff productivity.

It makes the difference between showing up for work just to pay the mortgage, clock watching and feeling a part of a dynamic, successful team that motivates you to go that extra mile. It's a slippery slope though, when poor performance sets-in, it's contagious, nobody wants to stand-out, bonding with co-workers will trump the latest management motivating speech.