Remember the Power of Employee Engagement

Techjury found that Highly engaged employees are 87% less likely to leave their place of work.   

Not all companies consider employee engagement important. The same report found that globally, only 15% of the workforce felt engaged in their work. That’s an alarmingly low number. If you are an SME or start-up, employee engagement is highly unlikely to be on the priority list, which is why we are here to help.  

Power of Employee Engagement 

We want to help you retain your employees, and provide them with a rich and exciting work environment. That may seem like a challenge with remote working, but it doesn’t have to be. Here’s why it matters and how you can engage your team effectively. 

Engagement Boosts Productivity  

Employee engagement will lead to measurable results with productivity, profitability and presenteeism. In order to achieve that though, you need to ensure your employees are constantly engaged. And no, we don’t mean giving them more work.  

Engagement Through Rewards and Recognition   

Workplace recognition gives a sense of achievement and accomplishment to employees. A culture of recognition is the easiest way to show you are listening, and value your employee’s efforts. Recognition can be through certificates, trophies or even gift cards. If you don’t know where to start, here are few simple tools and methods.  

1. Hi5

Employees and leaders can give ‘high fives’ or recognize a colleague for doing a great job. It’s not just a Hi5, you can also give feedback performance reviews and conduct organization-wide surveys. The app also works with Microsoft Teams and WhatsApp, so you can Hi5 your team anywhere. 

2. Reward Gateway

This tool allows you to create customized cards and service awards, along with instant delivery. Think of this as Facebook for your company, with a ‘feed’ that shows the team and individual achievements. It also offers employee communications, surveys and analytics tools. As a bonus, employers can also offer employees discounts at hundreds of retailers.   

Professional and Personal Growth Tools  

Professional and personal growth tools are important ways to increase your employee’s skills. Such tools help them to work better, but also grow and adapt to the changing climate. It will help them take on additional responsibilities.   

Giving them such tools is also great for employee engagement since it shows that you as an employer care about their personal growth. Any professional and personal development will only benefit you since employees will be armed with new skills and knowledge that they can put to use. Make sure that any tools you provide tick most, if not all the following boxes:

Here are some great learning tools you can use:  

1. Lessonly 

This tool specializes in learning and development, giving you the ability to create training modules in minutes. Employees can be onboarded,and trained in sales, customer service and much more.  Lessonly also offers progress tracking, PDF exports, tagging and a compressive library.   

2. Edapp 

Edapp provides a mobile learning platform through gamification and rewards. Edapp also lets you reuse and rebrand existing courses, with translation in over 100 languages. The platform also has detailed and automated analytics, with control over scoring and pre-requests.  

Of course, there are plenty of other tools that you can use. We recommend starting with these though, as they are easy to set up and deploy. Another critical aspect of employee engagement is an all-around employee healthcare plan. If you don’t have one yet, and even if you do, why not check out Onsurity?  

Onsurity is an employee healthcare plan built for SMEs and start-ups. We offer flexible and economical plans with great health and wellness benefits. Our insurance partner provides insurance, and we give you a single platform to access fitness, medicine, and teleconsultations. Get your team an Onsurity Plus subscription. It will help them feel cared for, and in turn, boost your employee engagement and retention.