Top Tips for Employee Engagement

12th March 2019

Do you struggle to implement change into your organisation?

Are you concerned with the lack of productivity and growth in your company?

Consider developing your Health & Safety approach to engage employees on a range of business challenges:

Influence:

• Selling ideas on logic alone rarely works, it only accesses one part of the brain!
• Making a personal connection is key – consider how you feel first and then how you think.

Persuasion:

• Extend Health & Safety discussions to personal wellbeing including family and friends. The WIIFM (What’s In It For Me) becomes clear.
• Consistent clarity on the way forward is critical – if employees can see the road ahead in the form of a company vision, they will feel more assured.
• Leverage the ‘Halo effect’ – some topics are difficult to personalise, eg. integrating a new expenses system.  If you have gained buy-in via H&S, then inspire participation through that goodwill.

Trust

• When employees feel listened to, focus areas are identified that are both good for individuals and good for the company.
• People can see how it develops them and allows them to grow.

Using Health & Safety as a leadership lever will generate engaged employees on any topic with open minds to listen and participate.