Employee Engagement Doesn’t Just Happen
It seems almost foolish, we put people in a business, tell them what to do and because we pay them to do it, we expect them to be fully engaged and committed to doing what they are told. But that rarely happens. They usually show up engaged on the first day, but often, only a few short months in, we wonder why they aren’t performing like the superstar we thought we hired. Some managers then start trying to find incentives, compensation programs, bonuses, and other “carrots” to get the team fired up and cause them to bring their A game every day. And sometimes it works... for a little while. Then we resort to new tricks in an attempt to keep the momentum from falling back to its comfortable place, somewhere near mediocrity.