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title: 25 Instant Strategies for Greater Employee Engagement
description: Imagine being able to pick and choose from?25 ?proven ways ?to boost your employee engagement and create?happier, more productive people, who? trust each other and? work together?to achieve?goals?and
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# [25 Instant Strategies for Greater Employee Engagement](https://workplaces.org/articles/flourish-factor/life-giving-work/25-instant-strategies-for-greater-employee-engagement)

 Written by [Giselle Jenkins](https://workplaces.org/articles/author/giselle-jenkins) | December, 01 2020

# 25 Instant Strategies for Greater Employee Engagement

 

Imagine being able to pick and choose from **25 proven ways **to boost your employee engagement and create happier, more productive people, who:

- **trust each other **and
- **work together **to achieve goals and reach desired outcomes

**Plus . . .**

- grow clear, two-way communication that can
- resolve conflict with win-win solutions

Results like these can happen by using these “25 Instant Strategies for Greater Employee Engagement”:

1. **Give **a team member responsibility and authority for a new project.
2. **Request **a list of ideas for improvement from your team and act on them.
3. **Ask **each team member about the part of work that is the most fun and add more of that to their job.
4. **Meet **every day with team members for a 5-minute check in.
5. **Inquire **about where team members want to grow, then set a development goal.
6. **Tell **a personal story of failure and redemption to inspire and motivate.
7. **Suggest **a specific word of appreciation for an act of hard effort.
8. **Encourage **criticism of your idea to make it better and then act on the critique.
9. **Invite **ideas and then create a theme for your team that’s unique.
10. **Talk **about your employee values and positive examples from your own and others’ teams.
11. **Describe **specifically how each employee’s activities tie to the mission.
12. **Gather **with team members, discuss and set challenging goals with measures.
13. **Offer **frequent feedback, most of it positive, appreciating a lot, coaching, and light evaluation.
14. **Brainstorm **about the best day yet at work and create more moments like that.
15. **Hold **weekly team meetings, with agendas, and make sure everyone contributes and listens.
16. **Reach out **to other departments for guest speakers and get to know what is important to them.
17. **Celebrate **the “honor” chair for collective affirmation, monthly recognizing what makes people unique.
18. **Conduct **a “stay” interview with each team member to find out what you can do to boost engagement.
19. **Schedule **quarterly half-day afternoon retreats- using the time to break down walls and communicate.
20. **Take **pictures of the team and post them, while encouraging the team to capture special memories.
21. **Update **job descriptions with each major change, keeping them clear, keeping them current.
22. **Present **quarterly verbal performance feedback and?ask a team?member “what needs to change?”
23. **Find **small custom gifts for team members, showing you think about them as people.
24. **As an appreciation**, send people home early with thanks, as a spontaneous act.
25. **Show trust to** build trust. Empower with trust. Ask for a favor and express confidence that they are the right person to help.

How might you set in motion one or more of these strategies, today?  
**Increase employee engagement** and you’ll see more and more people build better relationships with greater team spirit, mutual encouragement, fulfillment, and ongoing reward. What’s not to like about that!

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