COVID 19 created one of the most significant disruptions in business, causing a change in how we work and how we view work-life balance.
Overcoming this adversity and in a post-pandemic world, employee engagement is now high on everyone’s agenda.
Businesses not only want but need to have confidence in the teams they employ. To know that everyone is invested in your company’s values, mission, and vision for the future.
But how do you make everyone feel part of the team and drive toward the same goals? And are there any benefits to HR outsourcing?
At Bhayani Law, we provide a human resource outsourcing solution tailored to you. Providing you with the HR services you need when you need them most.
Check out our page to see how we can help you increase employee engagement and create a more sustainable place to work.
What is employee engagement?
To us, employee engagement means doing the right thing for you, your business, and your people on an ongoing basis.
Engagement is a way to help you recruit and retain top talent and to reach those bigger goals.
Benefits of employee engagement
Before we delve into employee engagement ideas, we want to highlight the benefits an engaged workforce can bring:
- Boost your reputation
- Employees feel more accountable for their work, for their and your success. This level of ownership drives positive results.
- Lower absenteeism
- Increased profitability
- Higher productivity
- Higher employee retention rates.
However, to reap all these benefits and more, you must continually invest in employee engagement.
How to improve employee engagement
Focus on the employee experience
Employee experience is about examining your employees’ journey and working life with you and looking at ways you can improve on this.
This means regularly reviewing policies, performance reviews, HR strategies, processes, etc., to ensure that they not only support the organisation but are designed to show employees how the company values and supports them.
And this is where outsourcing HR comes in.
Providing direct and honest feedback, HR consultants can identify and highlight areas working well and where you could make slight adjustments and improvements.
Businesses should be looking to create effective benefits programmes. Programmes that make all employees feel supported, safe, and secure.
We also highly recommend prioritising professional development. Having robust plans in place for professional development shows a commitment to your staff and allows you to create opportunities and develop skill sets for your business.
Take on board feedback
It’s essential that you gather regular feedback from employees in order to keep your finger on the pulse.
By carrying out short surveys and feedback analyses, you are then better positioned to take action, identifying trending issues and any potential challenges.
By engaging people and gathering valuable feedback, you can gain a clearer picture of what is working and what areas could use some adjustments. This level of feedback also ensures everyone feels involved in the business and allows employees to feed into and be involved
in your strategic goals and plans, which is essential for engagement.
Listen to your employees, make more informed decisions, and drive better business performance.
Look to hybrid working
Today, hybrid working = employee engagement, with employee engagement in a hybrid workplace increasing productivity and output and boosting morale considerably.
Hybrid working, in a nutshell, is the freedom for employees to work at the office or remotely.
The good news is providing this level of flexibility WILL increase productivity, but this level of flexibility can be challenging to manage.
Outsourcing HR in this capacity can help you create a plan that meets your strategic vision and deliver the flexibility demanded by employees by taking a highly collaborative approach that provides greater autonomy and effective work habits.
Now you can facilitate a better work-life balance for employees, increase productivity, reduce operational costs, and achieve higher employee satisfaction.
Focus on communication
Employee engagement strategies aren’t effective if no one knows them, so it is essential that you have a clear and consistent internal communications strategy.
People need to feel involved.
We recommend keeping communication open and transparent.
However, we recognise that effective communication can be challenging to deliver.
Especially as we know, whole company messages must be clear, accurate, and aligned with the company vision and values.
By adopting the right digital tools, communication can and will get easier.
Tools such as Zoom, Slack, Teams, etc. Tools that, due to the pandemic, many of us now use as part of our everyday working practices.
If employees feel more informed, they will be more engaged. Show them the strategic direction. Be honest. Be open. Drive alignment.
A great employee engagement idea is to outsource values-based initiatives to a professional HR consultant. A team who can devise creative ways to reconnect with your current talent pool and re-engage employees with your values, mission, and company purpose, bringing people together to achieve future goals.
HR support
The role of HR in employee engagement is pivotal in ensuring everyone feels part of the organisation. It is an ongoing activity focusing on evolving work trends and patterns and developing this information into concepts and strategies that continuously improve engagement, productivity, and business performance.
For employee engagement strategies tailored to your workforce, call us today on 0333 888 1360 or email [email protected] and see how our HR services can support your business now and in the future.
