30 simple ways for leaders to increase the engagement of the people in their organizations.
- Living the values
- Express a clear future mission and strategy for your team
- Stimulate the personal and professional development of the people in your team
- Set challenging goals for the members of your team and support them in achieving these goals
- Regularly give specific and constructive feedback
- Involve your team in challenging and surprising projects
- Work on a personal development plan with all of your staff
- Do not reschedule or cancel planned performance reviews
- Give more room
- Try to be a little less task oriented
- Less meetings, more personal contact
- Involve your high potentials in challenging international assignments
- Do not shout when you give your orders
- No more working lunches
- Listen more, talk less
- Also use your phone, not only e-mail
- Ask more questions
- Express your own enthusiasm and passion for the job
- Go with the flow (now and then….)
- Deal with obvious non-performance
- Do not keep the challenging assignments to yourself!
- Listen. Listen. Listen.
- Share more than you would usually do. And show some doubt
- Keep fighting bureaucracy!
- Give more compliments
- Set high expectations
- Ask guests in your office to give a presentation to your staff
- Sometimes change your plan
- Stick to your plans!
- Serve yourself last
