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22 Ways Employees Benefit From Their Own Engagement

July 28, 2009 by David Zinger 5 Comments

Employee engagement from the employee’s perspective.

Here are 22 reasons why we as employees benefit from our own high caliber engagement:

  1. Our life and work will  be richer and more fulfilling when we are engaged in our work.
  2. We will leave work each day  with a stronger sense of satisfaction.
  3. Our engagement will achieve results that matters to us, our organization, and our clients.
  4. High levels of engagement is the fast train to career development.
  5. Our engagement will rub off on customers and clients and we will find that customers and clients are easier to work with.
  6. If we are parents, our engagement at work will offer a positive and constructive role model of work for our children.
  7. We prevent ourselves from becoming disengaged victims — seeing the company as the enemy, leaders as villains, and being unhappy with our lot in life.
  8. Engagement contributes to our authentic happiness at work.
  9. We engage differently in various tasks and projects and our maximum engagement will indicate the best type of work for us to do.
  10. We will learn our working strengths by finding those things that are easiest for us to engage with.
  11. Our work will be a robust expression of our service for others.
  12. We contribute to the economic value of the organization – the organization must remain viable for us to be valuable.
  13. Work is love made visible, when we engage fully in our work we express our passion and become more visible to all.
  14. Engagement is an authentic pathway to personal branding.
  15. Robust engagement more than fulfills our half of the employment contract.
  16. Our engagement will contribute to other employee’s engagement.
  17. We will have more fun at work when we are engaged.
  18. We tend to also be more engaged in things outside of work when we are fully engaged with work.
  19. We can carry on our engaged approach to work into retirement and not find a drop in satisfaction when we retire.
  20. Engagement makes us active agents in our own work.
  21. When we are fully engaged we are less likely to be afraid to challenge others and the organization to be their best.
  22. We can’t be bored if we are engaged and time will fly at work.

What are additional benefits you see for employees to engage fully in their work?

David Zinger, M.Ed., is a leading expert on employee engagement. He is committed to creating authentic and sustained employee engagement for the benefit of all. Contact David at (204) 254-2130 or Email dzinger@shaw.ca.

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Comments

  1. Melanie says

    July 28, 2009 at 11:43 am

    This is a great article David. Being an engaged employee benefits the employee and the employer. I think all employers should conduct engagement surveys to determine how to make their employees as engaged as possible.

    Please refer to my blog for 5 reasons to survey employees:

    http://www.captureisg.com/blog

  2. David Zinger says

    July 28, 2009 at 11:58 am

    Melanie:

    Thanks for your comment. Employee engagement must be for all and most employers are also employees within their company.

    David

  3. Stuart H. Marion says

    July 29, 2009 at 10:45 am

    David, great article. I’m new to this group and like what I see so far. As far as this article, (22 Ways Employees Benefit From Their Own Engagement), this should be used as a mission statement for employees! This information shows that an employee can take pride in their contribution to the organization and to their organizations efforts to include them in their continued growth.

  4. David Zinger says

    July 29, 2009 at 10:51 am

    Stuart:
    Thanks for the feedback. Interesting point about being a mission statement for employees. I will keep this in mind.
    David

  5. Anthony P says

    August 3, 2009 at 9:20 pm

    Wow, that’s a lot of points about engaging your employees! It works as a list that staff can read out loud about their jobs, but what about mentoring them to fully believe the words instead of just saying them

    A good leader needs to follow these points before they can teach them. As John Maxwell says, “If you call yourself a leader and no one is following, you are just out for a walk.”

    It’s about being an Effecting Leader and Mentoring.
    Thanks,
    -Anthony

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