How can I increase staff engagement and motivation? | Be The Business | A more productive economy driven by inspired business leadership

Imagine your business as a car. Your strategy is your steering wheel: setting your direction, pursuing your vision. Your skills, knowledge and training are your engine: converting energy into motion. The fuel? That’s motivation. Motivation is the gas in your tank. Literally the energy we release when our core motivators are triggered. Often it’s emotional, invisible or sub-conscious, but nevertheless it’s one of the most valuable assets you have. Work on improving the engagement of your staff with some simple steps.

Ways to help you deal with it:

Action plan

Turn your staff into brand advocates

Effort: Medium

Impact : Medium

ACTION PLANS are a structured list of steps designed to help you approach tackling a particular business challenge.

We explain why each step is important
Customise by setting your own completion dates and assign tasks
Helpful tools are provided for certain steps
A downloadable PDF version of each action plan is available

Action plan

Increasing overall staff engagement

Effort: Medium

Impact : High

Action plan

Introducing an incentive scheme

Effort: Medium

Impact : High

Guide

An introduction to increasing staff engagement and motivation

Employee engagement and motivation are products of a hard-to-measure mix of personal drivers, company performance and culture – it might feel like a tough subject to tackle.

GUIDES break a challenge down, providing important context and real-world experiences.

Based on SME experiences, not corporate jargon
Filled with real-world stories
Achievable steps every business can take

Other support that's available

Why good engagement is a two-way street

A disengaged staff can have a significantly negative effect on productivity, customer service levels and retention. See what recruitment experts Robert Half suggest.

Calculate the value of getting on top of engagement

Use Engage's calculator to find out how much difference you can make to your bottom line by reducing attrition and driving up levels of employee engagement.

How other businesses have tackled something similar

Real business story

Double-down on employee engagement during difficult times

Employee engagement is rooted in culture and communication. How leaders engage with staff on a daily basis can have a huge impact on performance and productivity across the business.

Real business story

Find out exactly what incentives your people are driven by. Then you’ll get the best results

Thinking creatively, businesses from all corners of Britain have introduced work incentives both big and small to keep staff motivation high. Each have learnt that the more inspired a workforce is the more productive they tend to be.

Real business story

Brand advocacy is built on a personal connection with the business

A brand isn’t built with a website or marketing campaign. Customers get a sense of your brand through dozens of small interactions and experiences with your business.

The questions lots of businesses are trying to answer

What issue is keeping you awake at night? A bit of targeted support is often all you need to overcome those challenges.

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Digital

How can I improve the digital presence my business has? How can I streamline and automate some of our business processes? How can I understand what digital tools or support my business needs? How do I effectively seek external digital support? How do I know if my technology is robust enough for growth? How do I assess and choose the right technology to improve business operations? How do I work out the best digital sales channels to use? How should I best budget and plan for new technology investments? How should I go about collecting data to improve my business? How should I use the data I have to improve decision making?

Leadership & Strategy

As a leader, how do I learn to trust others within my organisation? How can I balance short-term needs with long-term targets? How can I reflect on my own strengths and weaknesses as a leader? How do I learn to become a better leader? How do I improve the communication in my business? How do I apply learnings from other businesses to my own company? How do I get better at noticing and reacting to warning signs? How do I get staff interested in our vision and values? How do I give my team autonomy and get better at delegating? How should my role as a business leader evolve with the company’s growth?

People & Team

How can I develop career paths for my staff? How can I develop the skillsets of my workforce? How can I improve my hiring and onboarding practices? How can I increase staff engagement and motivation? How can I keep my best members of staff? How can I reduce employee turnover? How can I run a better appraisals process? How do I deal with a challenging member of staff? How do I manage an effective remote workforce? How should I performance manage my staff?

Planning

How can I balance ambition with setting realistic goals? How can I get staff interested in the financial situation? How can I work out what required skillsets are missing in the business? How can I define and communicate my vision for success? How can I get better at looking internally at my business? How can I make my business more resilient to change? How do I ensure my business can navigate a dip in trading? How do I better inform my business plans? How do I know when to invest in my business? How do I know when to scale up my business?

Sales & Growth

How can I get a better return on investment from my marketing? How can I identify new customers to target? How can we better serve our most loyal customers? How can we develop new products and services? How do I create targets and KPIs for my staff? How do I benchmark my business against competitors? How do I build a network to support my business? How do I develop a clear unique selling point? How do I financially plan for new opportunities? How do I make sure my team and processes are ready for growth?

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