How involved are your staff?

Are they proud of working with your organisation? Do they speak positively about your services and products? Will they go the extra mile for you and your customers? In Involved Employees we look at what gets in the way of people thriving on their work and how to fix this. Get involved at involved employees.com or contact us at involved@ergoclear.com

Monday, 17 December 2007

Get involved: do what you like and what you are good at

Are you a people person, a morning person or a big-picture person? Whatever type of person you are, if you are not working to your strengths you could be in for an unsatisfying time at work and ultimately a life more ordinary.

Much workplace development has focused on finding people’s weaknesses and running development to improve performance. Another view says since you are likely to have teams working with you, dividing roles and responsibilities according to team member strengths gives everyone the chance to do a great job all the time.

What strategy do you need to work to your teams’ capabilities? Find out what your teams' strengths are, identify what will support or hinder them using their strengths (like office set up, or working times for example) and help employees learn in a way that suits them: are they an analyser a doer or a watcher? More here
Chris Markham is Communications Partner with Ergo Consulting fighting the employee ‘involvement gap’ going beyond the ‘once a year, tick in the box’ staff survey. Get involved: visit involved employees.com