Leading an engaged team is fun.
Your boss will love you, it’s easy, and you’ll hit your KPIs without any drama.
It’s up to you as a leader to keep tabs on engagement levels in your team.
Enter, the engagement survey.
You’ve got three options:
- Hire a fancy consultancy, pay big money, and get the consultants to analyze it all for you
- Go cheap and use survey monkey and work out what the answers mean on your own
- Find out what your team thinks for free (apart from some pizza or a plate of muffins) by asking them
The free approach, though quick and dirty, will get you some answers fast.
Here is how to do it.
Step One — Tell them what you are going to do in advance.
There is no merit in springing this type of exercise on a team, plus you want them to arrive at the meeting prepared.
Tell the team you are setting up a meeting to work on engagement, but there is no hidden agenda. You just want to improve engagement generally.
Send the calendar invites for a time when everyone can attend, or you’ll get all sorts of excuses.
Make sure you book a room with a whiteboard.