It is a leader’s duty to check up on his employees from time to time. Employees expect more than enough from their organizations. They expect leaders to be ensuring their environment as well as their quality of life in the organization. To help business owners and leaders, here are 5 questions that may improve employee engagement.
Is there anything you need from the organization?
It’s important to ask your employees if there is something that the organization could provide. This allows employees to think that the company they are in genuinely cares about them. Ask them if there is something they need more or less of, in order to function perfectly in their role.
Can the leaders do something for you?
We all recognize that employees should help the leaders out in achieving their organizational goals. However, employees also need provision from their leaders. This could range from simple things into more complex topics.
As a boss, you could be doing something that’s negatively affecting the employees around you. It’s better that you ask them.
Are there any conflicts in your current role?
It’s also important that we check their roles and the processes behind it. We could use this question to dig deeper and find out if there are factors within our employees’ roles in the organization which negatively affect them. It is best that we keep a level of awareness regarding workplace relationships so that we could resolve future conflicts with ease.
Is your role here clear to you?
We should ask our employees if their roles in the organization are clear. It is best that we keep our employees updates of their roles. Just imagine the chaos if you are not on the same page with your employees.
Unclear roles within the workplace may also affect their productivity. If they have a clear understanding of what they should contribute, then you’re setting your organization up for success.
Does your work help you achieve your personal goals?
You employees climbed on board not fully because of the company. They joined your organization because they believe that your company goals align with their personal goals and aspirations. It’s essential that we get to ask them if their job would help them achieve their life goal.
If it still helps them, then you may want to ask the other questions featured here. You need to ask them in other key areas. If an employee answers no, then you could ask them about the factors affecting their current view of the job.
The lesson here is that as leaders, we should be hands on with our team. We should be progressive and the complete opposite of a bureaucratic leader. We must give them the opportunity to speak up on issues surrounding the current workplace. Besides, they are affected by it too.
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Shanae Brooks is a reporter covering leadership in the business world. She began her journalism career as a ghostwriter behind various successful books in the business realm.
