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3 Simple employee engagement strategies for executive leaders.
Executive leaders, your engagement is crazy important. Your team engagement will effect your overall success!
Engagement is the most valuable measure of employee productivity and loyalty. Ensuring that your employees have creative, playful, healthy connected opportunities for their work will help them serve others without getting burned out. Focusing on their engagement will revolutionize your experience as a leader as you all become more engaged, purposeful, and healthy and achieve catalytic results. And when your employees are engaged you have less turnover and recruitment expenses, less conflict management and way more creative solutions.
So, if you are looking for ways to keep your employees ignited, even during change, uncertainty or even chaos, these strategies are for you.
Here are three simple strategies for getting 100% employee engagement
Number 1. Be Vulnerable Share your current reality. Even if it...
Feeling Burnout Vs. Renewed Energy- What do you Feel?
You feel very different things when you experience burnout versus renewed energy. Become in tune with how each makes you feel so you can begin to evoke the story you want for your life.
Burnout energy is that draining feeling you have when something exhausts you. Do you feel pressure in your head or tightness in your stomach?
What are some things that drain your energy? Is it being stuck in traffic? Or maybe it is being late for an important meeting? Maybe for you it is anticipated conflict?
What are somethings that renew your energy? Massage, sleep, play with friends?
Take some time and write out what burnout and renewing your energy feels like for you.
How do you renew your energy?
My number one way to renew is solo time with silence. Mine may be different from yours. Writing down what you feel helps you to realize more quickly that you are living in your energy or living in burnout...
Improve your Leadership effectiveness and Prevent Burnout
In addition to decreased energy and feeling disconnected or cynical, burnout is also characterized by feelings of low accomplishment. Not feeling accomplished is a real and felt experience EVEN when we are effective.
The push to do better, achieve more, to be good enough or to get acknowledged creates more pressure and more work. It becomes a coping to fill a void or to continue to try to validate our worth. This feeling perpetuates a feeling of low energy, and not feeling connected when we hold back in our relationships or we work harder, which is exhausting.
Our belief in our ability to succeed is influenced by past results, feeling relevant, being recognized by others for our contributions, and encouragement and championship specifically from people we can relate to, who inspire us or who’s opinion matters.
When we are feeling effective, (productive, constantly learning, accomplished, successful…whatever word you would use for that feeling) we are...
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Kristen Truman-Allen, PhD, MS, RN, PCC
Kristen Truman-Allen is on a mission to ensure that every leader and the people they serve, live a fully engaged and integrated whole life. Kristen brings her experiences as Health Care Administrator, Emergency nurse, Outward Bound expeditionary learning instructor and Organization Development professional into her coaching for executives and formal leaders in organizations. With a PhD in Human Development and a Master’s in Human and Organization Systems, Kristen uses metaphor and intuition in her coaching of organizations and individual leaders to help them have the energy to integrate what’s most important to them. Kristen balances her family of 6, travel adventure, business and play and is passionate about evoking inspiration and impact in our world.