hey ambitious professionals it's Linda
Rainer of Linda Rainer calm guiding you
to a career and life you lis enjoy and
today is another corner office insights
video where I share at leadership advice
for those of you who are managers senior
managers directors or c-suite level
executives to help you and your team's
improve their performance
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as a career strategist I've had the
honour of being able to help numerous
professionals land their dream job
careers and if this is something that
you are interested in working with me
one-on-one I can give you details about
that at the end of this video and today
we're going to talk about employee
engagement and I'm going to share with
you my key strategy that you need to
implement if you really want to engage
your employees and have them be more
motivated work harder and drive success
in your company now before we talk about
employee engagement I want to explain a
cold hard truth that you need to
understand first and that is in order to
have engaged employees you need to be an
engaged manager first there's a concept
that I'd like to tell people about and
it's what I call the world is your
mirror and it's really that the world is
your mirror whatever is reflecting back
to you from your external world is do
the result of something that's going on
within you so if you are finding that
your employees are not engaged in on
your team in your company then it has
something to do with a lack of potential
engagement from within yourself so if
you were to be honest with yourself can
you truly say that you are fully engaged
as a manager every day 100% of the time
I mean I'm sure that you can find that
there would be hints here and there of
lack of engagement within yourself and
so if that's the case it should be no
surprise that there's lack of engagement
in your employees as well so today I'm
going to help you and your employees and
I'm going to show you three signs to
know what employee engagement actually
looks like and the step-by-step solution
to implement if it's not their sign
number one they work hard every day with
pure intention and passion to get their
work done well and to have strong
results you know that an employee is
engaged when you can visibly see it when
you can see that they're working hard
every day when they come into the office
they have that pure passion and
intention to do well to deliver high
quality work and to achieve strong
results now there's a difference between
looking as though the
work hard versus actually working hard
the results speak for themselves and so
if you're able to see the hard work and
also see the results of it then you know
that that means that the employee is
doing their job they're doing it well
and they have an intention to do it well
sign number two of an engaged employee
they're always improving something they
have the mindset I want to make things
better more efficient more productive
and they don't just sit there and talk
about it you see them actually going out
there and doing it they're making
improvements they've made efficiencies
happen they've suggested recommendations
that have been taken into account in
that people have been able to use and
benefit from that shows an engaged
employee when they're always improving
and looking to make improvements
ensign number three of an engaged
employee they are helpful and
knowledgeable the employees who are
helpful and who have created a brand for
themselves to be seen as the go-to
advisors the knowledge champions the
experts in their role and are willing
and able to help others and provide
others with information that they need
they are also truly engaged in their job
because they wouldn't put themselves in
that situation if they didn't have the
desire to be able to share their
knowledge and help others they know that
others rely and depend on them and
they're happy to be there so now I have
to turn the table back on to you are you
an engaged employee yourself as a
manager do you exhibit these three
traits daily and if you are truly honest
with yourself and you find that you
aren't demonstrating these things on a
regular basis then you have to start to
understand why that is because you can't
expect to have engaged employees if you
yourself are not engaged because here's
another truth the only way that your
employees are going to feel truly
motivated the way that you want them to
be is if you demonstrate that energy
first it's interesting how people don't
realize that as managers you have a lot
of influence over your employees the way
you are the way you feel the way that
you present yourself is going to have an
impact on your direct reports and
they're either going to feel good and
also be motivated
or they're not so if you find that
either you're not engaged or your
employees are not engaged or both this
is how you would reengage a disengaged
employee before we talk about what to do
let's talk about what not to do do not
scare your employees into working harder
by threatening them with the idea that
they'll lose their job they're acting
this way not because they decided to
entirely you as their manager play a big
role in their behavior and if you don't
take ownership for that you need to
start to because a truly influential
leader understands the impact that they
have on the people who they influence so
don't try to impose your power over them
by scaring them and telling them that
they need to get back into shape or else
that's poor management style if you
think that the only way to motivate your
unmotivated employees is to scare them
through fear then you don't really fully
understand your role as a manager so
let's say that I'm being overly
presumptuous and I'm saying that you're
not engaged yourself let's just say that
you are very engaged and that you really
want to motivate your team but you've
gotten to a point where there's one or
two individuals who are completely
disengaged and you want to re-engage
them because they are good employees
they have done good work in the past and
you want to remote of eight them and
bring them back bring them back to the
level that they were at what do you do
then the answer is to figure out the
source reason to understand the root of
their disengagement so what does that
mean it means sit down with your
employee give yourselves both sacred
time and space to be together one-on-one
so that they can open up and explain /
discuss their issues and in this
discussion as the manager there are
three things that you want to tell them
tell them in a genuine way that you have
their best interests in mind when it
comes to helping them to grow as an
employee in the organization a lot of
the time when we tell someone that we
have their best interest in mind they
may actually ignore that and they may
not want to hear it but when you support
it with the next two things it's going
to be more convincing
the second thing that you want to tell
them is how much you recognize their
value and again you want to be genuine
about this so bring up specific
instances specific accomplishments that
they were able to achieve throughout the
time that they worked with you and how
much you appreciated it and how much
that they were able to make a
contribution to the company and then
finally you'll end it off by telling
them that in order to help them to truly
get back on track you want to fully
understand what it is that's getting in
their way and what's causing them to
feel the way that they're feeling these
days so once they tell you their reasons
as to why they're feeling this way why
they're feeling disengaged and they
actually open up that is when you can
start to come up with a plan together to
implement new solutions that will
mitigate what it is that they're feeling
an employee can become disengaged in a
multitude of ways perhaps they feel that
they do deserve a step up in their
career but you haven't been offering
them opportunities for advancement
perhaps they feel as though they're not
being heard they may have said things in
the past to you that have indicated
certain requests and you just completely
ignored and never took them up on it
never considered them there's so many
reasons why an employee can be
disengaged if you were truly an engaged
manager though you wouldn't this
wouldn't be a surprise to you you would
have seen it right away as soon as it
started happening and you can catch it
before it becomes a situation where
you're having to go through this whole
discussion and trying to get them back
on track instead you want to be an
engaged manager by really connecting
with your employees listening to what it
is that they're asking for paying
attention and then being able to work
together collaborate and offer solutions
that are going to not only help to
engage them continue to maintain their
engagement but help you as a manager to
have a happy productive team so there
you have it my key strategies on how to
increase employee engagement within
yourself and within your team now if
you're someone who's on this path of
searching for a new career
you've been interviewing for a while but
you haven't received any success and
you're ready for one-on-one professional
guidance feel free to reach out to
me head on over to my website Linda
Raynor comm / stand out get hired read
through the page fill out the
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may be a match either myself or a team
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