If Your Engagement Experiences were the Fire, Can your Team go through Winter Time?

In my previous post, I shared the story of one of our Seed Services @ YellowSeeds: Powerful Employee Engagement.

We talked about the story of this seed and the pillars I built to create powerful experiences for the teams I worked with.

• Your Genuine Intention to engage them

• Communication Transparency

• Inspirational engagement

• Create powerful experiences for your teams

• Co-creating engagement spaces with your team (they are part of the solution)

We explored the concept of Your Genuine Intention to engage them and Communication Transparency, so we will continue with the next one: Inspirational engagement.

When we are leading the engagement experiences of our teams, we can do it as another transactional aspect of our daily work (mark the check box) or we can inspire.

When I said inspire I mean, first to inspire yourself to do it. And then you will need to inspire others. Real changes can’t be done alone, you will need others change agents with you to do it.

You can be the spark, but you need fire.

When you were able to successfully inspired a small group of change agents to create spaces for engagement, you will be success of creating inspirational engagement.

But what is inspirational engagement?

You inspire someone when you show them a goal that seems to be impossible, to be possible. But you also show them the path to reach out the goal, although those steps might have not been taken yet. They can see with you the path and the goal, that is inspiration.

Going back to the example of the engagement surveys. When you share the results, the actions being taken, and specially the progress on the actions over time, you are inspiring the goal of “my feedback matters!”.

And the more you keep doing it, it creates a bigger one “I am part of the co-creators of the experience of engagement with my feedback and ideas!”.

That is inspirational engagement, when you reach out a bigger % of your team who are inspirationally engaged.

PS: Keep in mind that nothing is perfect, you will always need people disengaged to get better.

Are you inspirationally engaged?

We will talk more about the other pillars of Powerful Employee Engagement in our next blog post.

Stay Colorful!