Industry Research: Your Secret Weapon for a Killer Company Culture: Your People

Retention, motivation and work ethic are all related to employee engagement. Higher engagement means happy employees, happy customers and better business outcomes.
 
However, engagement is a challenge. Globally, on average:
● 65% of employees are thinking about changing companies.
● 54% feel low energy and enthusiasm in their work.
● 17% are willing to make a significant discretionary effort.
Source: Gartner
 
Add transformation to the equation and it becomes much more about ‘just doing your job’- employees are asked to learn new things, to get out of their comfort zone, to experiment and deal with uncertainty. These additional demands require energy, focus and perseverance so, engagement is absolutely key.
 
Higher employee engagement means:
● 10% more customer satisfaction
● 21% more profitability
● 20% higher productivity
Source: Gartner
           
Work is of course a way to earn money, but engaging your fellow employees gives them a sense of pride, purpose and friendship. The more engaged your people are, the more motivated and committed they are to their work, but are also heavily influenced by the social dynamic of the workplace. Real, deep, meaningful conversations are the most powerful tools for pinpointing issues, dissecting how your employees really feel, and for making real and impactful changes in your organization.
 

Get Engagement Right and the Benefits Aren’t Incremental, They’re Compound

Part of the challenge of engaging with your employees in a meaningful way is if they don’t see the value in committing the time to formulate thoughtful answers or divulge real pain points and challenges, you’ll just end up with superficial data points diluted with corporate speak. It’s absolutely necessary to engage in an authentic, approachable way.  Your employees are people above all else - brothers, mothers, dog owners, book lovers, professional ping pong players (you never know!) so it’s important to engage with them in a way that lets them feel comfortable to be their multidimensional selves. Many tools used for employee engagement today such as surveys end up collecting data that is flat.

Your People Are So Much More Than Data Points

When hunting for an employee engagement tool that makes sense for your organization and people, think of the needs of both your team and your employees. You want a tool that is user friendly, highly interactive, anonymous and easily accessible for employees (read: works across devices because we live in a mobile world!). On the HR professional’s end, you want a robust way to continually collect data, you want a platform that will make your employees comfortable enough to give meaningful feedback, and you would really like a tool that won’t take weeks and months to form a report with actionable insights.
 
At Remesh, we understand that people fuel change, and, with the right tools, we know it’s possible to connect and engage with your people on a level that will help you to bring about the right changes to your organization. Remesh is a conversation platform that gives every one of your employees a seat at the table. Powered by humans, scaled by AI, Remesh gives HR teams rich, qualitative insights into what your fellow employees feel, think and say, at a mass, quantitative scale- in hours, not days. Remesh is your employees’ voice and intelligence amplified, helping you to create a better place to work and the world a better place to be.
 
Have questions about how to engage with employees in a meaningful way?  Shoot us an email at hello@remesh.ai! We’re looking forward to hearing from you :)

Author Bio

Over his career, Simon Drinkwater has been a pioneer in Digital Rights Management & Billing Solutions, helping honest people stay honest, and helping rights holders and talent get paid for content at Entriq. Simon has made a contribution toward building arguably man's greatest achievement to date, the Internet, by terraforming Limelight Network's into economically and politically challenging markets through partnerships. He has also helped disrupt the economics of how we connect high value content and data to the cloud, by offering users a more efficient and cost-effective way to connect with Megaport’s Elastic Software Defined Network. Simon is currently focused on making the workplace (and the world!) a better place to be, as VP of Enterprise at revolutionary, AI-driven engagement platform, Remesh. Connect Simon Drinkwater Follow @simondrinkwater