HireLevel’s Guide to Driving Growth in Your Business

Driving Growth is Three-Fold

When the topic of Employee Engagement comes up, what is the first thing that you think of as an employer? Does it revolve around the idea that if an employee has higher engagement it will lead to better growth in your company? Probably not directly, right?

More commonly we think of engagement as benefits, perks, sunshine, and rainbows but all of these extra “rewards” without accountability for results has the risk of creating entitlement. So, perhaps that’s why we don’t directly think of growth when we think about engagement. The secret is that engagement alone doesn’t drive productivity.

Nevertheless, it is still important to know what your employees really care about. The best way to do that is to take off your employer shoes for a moment and put your employee shoes back on. Do this, paired with, asking them and you’ll uncover the right “rewards” for engaging your team.  Then you must move beyond engagement to get to the growth factors. Driving growth in your company is three fold —  engagement, training, and accountability.

HireLevel’s Guide to Driving Growth in Your Business

Engagement Considerations:

1. Put  yourself in their shoes – Practice empathy together, and remember you are/were an employee too.
2. Create a WIIFM Incentive Strategy – “What’s in it for me” means recognizing the weight of personal motivation & incentivizing toward desired shared goals.
3. Motivation and Strength Finders can aide in alignment of individual roles and shared company goals
4. Are our “perks” the right “perks” for all employees: Think D&I.

Training Considerations

1. Implement regular, on-going training programs
2. Evaluate tools, resources, tech needed to implement training from anywhere seamlessly
3. Create a Training & Development committee / team / department (depending on business need) to see through training, organize materials, and evaluate effectiveness
4. Training empowers employees, creates operational efficiencies, and develops a safety net for extra support for your clients

Accountability Considerations

1. A culture of accountability encourages autonomy and creates thought leadership and innovation
2. Transparency of goals and clear expectations on measures of success are crucial
3. Creating and practicing increased accountability within your company/team requires delegation, open ended questions, and regular consistent feedback
4. Accountability without the proper training and tools for success is likely to drive up burnout and not likely to create desireable results.

At HireLevel, creating people driven ROI is our expertise. We are continuously evaluating solutions and technology support for our clients’ recruitment to retirement strategies. If growing your business is a goal this year or over the next few years, ensuring you have the right infrastructure in place for HR should be a priority. Learn more about HireLevel’s strategy to grow business from the inside out.

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