Four ways to drive employee engagement by going digital

Organizations are driven by its people. Employee engagement features highly among the policies of most progressive organizations. In an increasingly digitized world of today, it is important that companies look for cues to keep people involved and engaged.

Studies indicate that Employee Engagement keeps people motivated, involves behavioral outcomes that finally lead to better performance.  

Creative ways of engaging the employee should involve the use of the digital space.

1. E-mailers: Email-connects that come from the topmost echelons of the company, describing the organizational hierarchy, detailing the company’s near-term and long-term goals etc, keep the employee informed about the company. These emails should also include a line or two about how the employee can contribute so that they know where they stand. Communication need not be just verbal, it can be digital.

 2. Presentations (PPT): When speaking about the company’s area of focus, policies, core values, use presentations that allow for better visualization and reading. These can later be sent out to them for individual reading.

3. Online tools and resource for learning: Using online tutorials, resources and feedback mechanisms to communicate the employees’ progress, provides the employee with a better digital experience.

4. Digitizing the reward and recognition program: Effective use of technology to reward performance. Maybe providing them with tools that will help make their work easier?

Dealing with globalization and recession has forced companies to re look at their Organizational Structure and Redesign their strategies however, wholesale redesigning is rare to come by.

But whenever it is done, it is important that the employees are kept in the loop so as not to feel left out.

Making changes to the organizational structure and redesign, it may work for small businesses; a large organization that has their employees spread over different geographies require a major overhaul and drilling down of the redesign through management policies to make it effective. Consider using the services of Creating Values that have expertise in this field.