6 Employee engagement and recognition trends organizations should have on their radars

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6 Employee engagement and recognition trends organizations should have on their radars

By Newwe - July 25, 2022

“We get engagement to perform when we relate for an exciting journey of having fun and recognition!!”

The ability to adapt and nurture innovation in a challenging environment helps an organization achieve a competitive advantage. When an employee gets recognized for upgrading skills, delivering better performance, taking accountability for a specific task, and bringing ideas to improvise processes reflected in a dashboard that builds a cohesive workplace to create a fantastic work culture. Now a billion-dollar question comes i.e., What should be the reason for emphasizing an increased level of employee engagement at work post-pandemic?

In this blog, we will cover six employee engagement and recognition trends that every organization should follow to build a happy workplace. In addition, we will be discussing some of the complex HR practices like ESI (Employee Satisfaction Index), Turnover Rate, Employee Tone and Sentiment at work, Internal promotion rate, and more that is needed to attract, engage, and retain top talent.

1. Invest in personal development

To sustain business every organization should frame employee-centric policies that should guard their career aspiration, compensation, mental health, and work-life balance. When an employee aspires to hit a milestone then they expect a platform to learn, test the learning, and experience the joy when ideas get executed. When an organization cherishes the relationship with their employee's as an extended family, now that is the foundation of trust. In return, you witness loyal employee's for an organization with less turnover, and the effort to deliver extraordinary services.

Employee engagement cannot be enforced but can be monitored for a corrective step, and Newwe helps to provide critical information based on real-time data analysis. We help to detect the level of employee engagement in an organization and help to understand the reason for disengagement. Many studies have confirmed that employee-centric development plans correlate with organizational business growth, where an organization witnesses lower absenteeism, increased productivity, and greater innovation.

2. Offer transparency

Create a workplace where there is an openness between managers and their employee's, this will drive better employee engagement and happiness. To increase alignment among the workforce, keep transparency in communication across the organization. That could mean sharing information freely with the entire team or individual members. It further applies to what information your organization shares with candidates, customers, and the public. Keep communication clear with employee's as to how the business is doing, what challenges that you are foreseeing and the key areas to focus.

3. Employee wellbeing support

Employee well-being is complex and there are several factors that impact how employee's feel at work. This may relate to the overall mental, physical, emotional, and economic health of your employee's. Individual well-being is sometimes influenced by factors like relationships with co-workers, career decisions they make, and access to tools and resources to perform work.

When employee's do not see their organization’s culture promoting their well-being, they do not feel motivated to go the extra mile. Wellbeing is delivered when employee's feel:

• a. Their voices are heard and counted for action
• b. They receive consultation on issues
• c. When they get into a genuine dialogue to identify the root cause for a corrective action
• d. When they get involved in decision making as per allocated responsibilities
• e. When they have a positive relationship within the organization and the management is fair to them
• f. When they get an opportunity to perform a teamwork
• g. When they have a healthy relationship with respective peers and managers, and work with dignity and respect.

4. Recognize and celebrate at work

An employee with a spirit of fair play and great teamwork makes their company grow. A company can achieve better success when recognized and rewarded with the performance of an employee that matches the corporate goals. Recognition is about giving pos feedback based on performance. Sometimes this happens in a formal way like an award ceremony, a bonus release, a promotion, and a raise in salary. In some cases, recognition is given informally like a verbal thank you, a handwritten note to appreciate, and more.

Workplace celebration gives employee's an opportunity to bond and get to know each other. With a better personal connection, you can set the foundation to share experiences and manage social wellbeing. A break from day-to-day work helps to recharge and get rid of stress when they return to work.

5. Asking for employee feedback

Asking for employee feedback and keeping the data with you is no longer enough. As an organization if you want to optimize employee's productivity, utilization and improve employee engagement then you need to use employee feedback data and act on it. Learn what your employee's would need to stay engaged at work and happy, and what it takes to retain them using employee feedback data. Listen to the data and where possible try changing your business practices to meet your employee's needs. You can use employee feedback across the organization at various levels and consider collecting a range of data through - induction surveys, recognition surveys, culture surveys, employee satisfaction surveys, training surveys, exit interview surveys and more.

6. Data-driven decisions

It is crucial to have access to employee insights and reports. This helps in optimizing employee engagement and drives decision power for your business based on the analytics of employee engagement trends and evaluates the effectiveness of engagement. When data is collected, put it to work and make business decisions that are data driven and this can help link employee engagement investment and key business results.

Conclusion

Building and managing a truly inclusive culture must be the forefront of your organization agenda, especially after the lasting effects of pandemic have brought in recent times. Enhance employee experience at your workplace at every stage by introducing continuous communication, gamification, performance management and more. Learn how Newwe can help your organization improve employee engagement in this ever-changing work environment with ease.