The Power of Knowing What Really Engages
What Uniquely Motivates & Engages An Employee?
Well, it depends on the individual … Enter Personal Engagement Plans (PEP).
If employers don’t know what engages and motivates their people, then they can’t effectively engage them. As everyone is different, we need to take the “workforce of one” philosophy and treat employees as individuals, not as a team or as an organisation.
PEP’s are by far the most effective way to engage and motivate people simply and easily – hands down!
Personal Engagement Plan (PEP) Case study
Take for example Sally – her manager Mike had a Personal Engagement Plan (PEP) coffee chat with her. In 15 minutes, just by identifying her top 3 motivational engagement drivers, Mike was able to make some small adjustments in team responsibilities that put a smile back on Sally’s face!
Out of the 7 drivers, Sally’s top motivators were Job Fulfilment, Leadership and Opportunity. Mike discovered that Sally enjoyed detailed work, like proof reading and enjoyed being involved with company promotional literature. Mike’s assistant, who normally handled these things, was drained by these activities, and didn’t really have time for them anyway.
The Win-Win
Mike gave these projects to Sally, which gave her more job fulfilment, and she felt rewarded doing something she was good at and liked. With Mike’s encouragement she also had some opportunities to join meetings that involved promotional issues.
Mike also found out that being kept informed and appreciated was important to Sally and he found it easy to let her know when relevant meetings were coming up and also to appreciate the work that she was doing. All of her top motivator scores went up as did her job satisfaction, productivity and engagement!
Doing a PEP can take as little as 15 minutes.
Simple Tips – To Get Started
- Organise a casual 15-30 min coffee chat PEP with one of your team.
- Explore why they like working with the organisation
- See if you can together identify their top 3 motivators (engagement drivers)
- Ask them questions. What would need to change for each motivator to be improved for them?
- Create a Personal Engagement Plan (PEP)
- Schedule another check-in for 3-6 months’ time
- You’ll be amazed at the outcomes
- Why not schedule one for each of your team now – then you can create an effective Team Engagement Plan (TEP)?
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