Articles of interest

Our top three tips for engaging your workforce

Our top three tips for engaging your staff on niikiis

As we have discussed in previous articles, the less engaged employees are with their workplace, the less interested they are in it. So here are three key areas you need to focus on to get your employees to give their all at work.

Personal development

Let's take training as an example. We know it's essential for employee engagement. 87% of millennials say that professional development or career growth opportunities are essential for them at work, and 94% of employees would stay longer at a company if it invested in their professional development. 80% of people revealed that opportunities to learn new skills would increase their interest and engagement at work.

This is especially important when it comes to onboarding new staff: 28% of new employees quit their jobs in the first 90 days, often due to a poor onboarding experience.

But not all training processes are the same, and long, boring courses are unlikely to stimulate your employees. Companies should offer short, valuable content that can be consumed on demand or, better still, created by your own employees to share with their colleagues.

2. Communication

Communication is another key factor. If you don't talk to your team members regularly, how will you know what motivates them? And keeping staff out of the process somehow tells them that they are not valued or trusted - a perfect way to demotivate them.

In particular, it is managers who need to communicate with staff to improve their performance, as this is one of the main causes of disengagement: 96% of employees say that receiving feedback often is a good thing, even if it is negative, but 62% feel they are not getting enough. Employees are three times more engaged when managers give them feedback, while employees are more likely to quit their jobs if their managers don't know how to do it.

In general, our communication systems are often inadequate. Many companies simply disseminate information through vertical models and an archaic intranet, rather than taking advantage of the social tools their younger employees have grown up with.

3. Connections

Bosses also underestimate the importance of social connections at work.

Millennials say that relationships with co-workers are one of the main reasons they would stay at a company for more than three years. And, according to a European study, the majority of respondents (42%) said their peers were the biggest influence on their commitment. Social contact is even more important in a globalised and flexible workforce, where it is easy for remote employees to feel disconnected. Companies need to provide tools to facilitate collaboration and promote a culture that helps employees stay connected.

It is clear that the issue of engagement will not be solved overnight. Fortunately, companies like niikiis provide innovative solutions, combining the principles of motivation, learning, social contact and communication in a single platform with artificial intelligence. Interactions between superior and employee, employee and manager, and even employee and company, are strengthened as users engage with our intuitive platform.

Request a demo and join the niikiis community!

Leave a reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked with *.