Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

When any firm begins to nosedive financially, it’s often due to disengaged people who lose interest in offering peak-performances. Have you seen it happen?

The Gallup Employee Engagement Index reported that 70% of workers are disengaged ... and that $300 billion a year is lost in productivity across US firms. Futhermore, it's a global problem. The 2005 Watson Wyatt Survey stated that a mere 12% of UK workers are engaged, for instance. It doesn't have to be that way.

Have you  noticed what triggers rally up any workforce … in ways that also raise the bottom line?

Disengaged people in business or university settings seem to leap back onboard when:

1. Talk moves away from leader-centered and exchanges occur regularly in vibrant roundtables … where diverse talents act as tools to solve daily problems.

2. Novices and experts alike find opportunities to explore new angles and create products that reflect strengths from their unique mix of intelligences.

3. Tone sustains goodwill so the workplace community remains both safe and challenging and provides a place where quality results are evident.

4. Discovery becomes the handmaiden of best practices and where more participants get involved in the organization’s vision.

5.  Workers are encouraged to bring their unique mix of intelligences to their work daily, and performance reports factor in the firm’s goals as well as worker strengths.

Not surprisingly, people do better and the bottom line improves … when workers engage their unique solutions to problems that tend to strike any organization.  How do you engage people in ways that build better work communities?