What do engaged employees and engaged couples have in common?
Most performance specialists agree, engaged employees are ones who typically exhibit behaviors that reflect the following two attitudes: • A commitment to help the organization succeed. • A buy-in to the organization’s focus and direction Sound similar to what we see reflected by people in our culture when they become engaged to be married? Most engaged couples possess a strong desire to develop a successful union and, to be successful in that union, they also share a focus on moving in the same direction. Engaged couples share another significant similarity—their unifying attitudes and behaviors are not forced upon them. If the relationship is built upon mutual respect and reciprocity, engaged couples willingly and wholeheartedly continue moving in the same direction. If you are an employer, manager, supervisor, employee trainer—or even if you’re planning to lead and manage employees—you are probably looking for ways to engage employees to do more with less. As Yeates stated above, nu
