Three Tips to Build Ownership Mindset

Three Tips to Build Ownership Mindset by an ESOP Advisor.

To build an ownership mindset, we must engage employees. How to do it? Employee engagement is about honoring, recognizing, and uplifting people. It’s about showing them they are valued and connected to something bigger than themselves that really matters. It’s about bringing the spark that makes them special, unique, and priceless into the workplace.

By implementing small steps, you can make a real difference in how employees feel about their jobs and how much of themselves they contribute in the workplace.

Here are three simple things you can resolve to do this year to engage better with employees.

Communicate regularly: Keeping employees in the loop about the company’s big picture and their role in it makes them feel valued and included, promotes a healthy attitude toward otherwise stressful changes, and helps ensure everyone is headed in the same direction. Whether you do it formally through newsletters, the company intranet, email blasts, text messages, or by just dropping by to talk, regular two-way communications create good will. Create a communications plan so those opportunities to share don’t slip through the cracks.

Create peer-to-peer recognition opportunities: Peer recognition may be more motivating because it comes from the people who know exactly what it takes to do the job well. It’s also more immediate and contextual than an annual or semi-annual review. Be sure to make peer recognition easy to do, frequent, public, and tie it to your company values.

Sponsor community service activities: Getting employees together to meet the needs of the world around you is a great way to strengthen relationships and make them feel good about working for a company whose concerns extend beyond its walls and its bottom line. Millennials, in particular, expect their work to connect them to something bigger than themselves.

This list is just a small sample of what you can do to make a big difference. If you need expert help with an employee engagement plan, give us a shout. It’s what we do! Contact us at info@nesteggcommunications.com