How Employers Can Cultivate a Passionate and Engaged Workforce
A company’s success is greatly influenced by its people. In a study on the relationship between company performance and employee engagement, researchers found that happy and passionate employees are a precursor to business success. Another research showed how passion builds up a person’s sense of purpose and fuels motivation, thereby contributing to the improvement of one’s overall behavior and performance.
How can companies build on these studies to aid their employees’ overall well-being so they can pursue passion in and out of their work lives?
Employers play a vital role in employee engagement. Prioritising employee happiness may offer the necessary boost a company needs for positive work performance amid difficulties. In enabling employees to continuously do what they love—notwithstanding job roles and the nuances in the company’s structure—organisations can adapt to new challenges easily. Learn how you can cultivate a happy and engaged workforce, especially during these challenging times.
Practice empathy
Acknowledge and promote diversity in your people. It is important to know that employee happiness is not a one-size-fits-all formula. Along with age, personality, and experiences, your employees have different needs and motivations.
Make time to get to know and understand the people in your team. What are their goals in their professional and personal lives? What are the things they love and enjoy about their roles in the company? What motivates them? What are the things they do not like about their job? How else do they want to pursue growth?
Understanding the different factors that affect your employees’ professional and personal lives will help you know what matters to them. This will then allow you to make decisions that will help your team pursue personal and professional growth.
Keeping mentally, physically, emotionally, and socially healthy employees is key to improving productivity and overall efficiency. Knowing what works best for your people and adapting to their needs that are aligned with the company’s goals reduces overall stress in the workplace.
Keep them empowered
When an employee no longer finds a sense of purpose in what he or she does, that person loses the desire to succeed. Avoid this by empowering your employees. Enable and equip them to find meaning in their day-to-day activities at work.
Invest in upskilling to help your staff develop valuable skills that can help improve their performance and drive career growth. Learning new skills also allows them to discover strengths that can motivate them to set and achieve new goals.
Encourage growth
It is important to recognise that employees develop new interests and desire new opportunities. Acknowledging this will allow you to come up with a more realistic approach to pursuing their passions within the workplace. This is called “job crafting,” a way to re-energise and reimagine one’s work life. Think of your employee’s job responsibilities as a set of building blocks that can be reconfigured to better suit his or her skills and passion. Doing so allows you to reframe job descriptions that will benefit both your employees and the organisation.
Always aim to inspire
Passion is fleeting and ever-changing. There has to be a greater sense of purpose to keep it alive. One of your mandates as a leader is to encourage your team to pursue whatever inspires them. Your employees’ growth extends to what they can contribute in and outside the office.
Allowing them to take time off to indulge in activities such as volunteer work will help foster a company culture that values passionate individuals.
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