Team workshops and events have gotten away with being ‘throwaway’ for too long. Team events should either meaningfully improve employee engagement or team performance or both.

In this video I want to address how to build employee engagement with team workshops and events.

Now the business case for focusing on employee engagement has long been closed. The Harvard Business Review surveyed business leaders back in 2014 and found that 71% of them thought that employee engagement was critical to the success of their organizations.

For a simple visual of how workshops and events can help too I’ll use a recognised model in Carey & Elliott’s Engagement Bridge

As shown in their best-selling book “Build it – The Rebel Playbook For World-Class Employee Engagement” the Engagement Bridge below is a simple and powerful way of looking at building engagement in your organisation.

As each layer is added (or strengthened) the engagement bridge gets stronger and the more engaged employees it carries.

So let’s look Engagement Bridge from the foundation layers up to look at how you can build employee engagement with team workshops and events.

Wellbeing
Workshops can address everything from healthy eating to moving pain free. Engagement Managers know that employee wellbeing underpins everything and cannot be ignored or swept under the carpet with snack boxes and gym memberships – this makes wellbeing workshops a great way to tackle this base layer.

Open & Honest Communication
We think that workshops and events should facilitate open and honest communication by building trust and gamifying the ‘difficult bit’ to build confidence and skill in this area.
We’ve done this with both Lego and Myers briggs so there are plety of options depending on the desired outcomes

Purpose, Mission & Values
When it comes to communicating and celebrating your business purpose and mission or bringing your values off the page to live and not just read, team workshops and events come into their own.
Supporting charity, helping the community, becoming more sustainable can all be addressed as a team in an experiential and memorable way.
You can also use metaphor. With a little creativity you can “build”, “connect”, “respect” and “be human” at your next conference through a suitable team workshop or event linked to the key message you need to convey.

Management
When it comes to building employee engagement, Managers is arguably more important than Leaders. Leaders can impart their vision and paint a beautiful image of the future but, its through Managers that most employees experience your true culture on a daily basis. According to Gallop, 50% of employees leave because of their manager.

Personality Profiling Workshops can help to equip your Management Team with the insights, awareness and soft skills required to sustain and boost employee engagement in their people.

A dry, profile report and a boring 3 hours in a conference room isn’t going to cut it however. What you need is a workshop tailored to your managers, underpinned by a respected profiling tool with real, actionable outcomes agreed by all.

Recognition
Last but not least workshops and events have always been a brilliant way of saying thank you.
Awards Dinners, Hospitality, Summer Fun Days, Christmas Parties.
In the past these activities have been done when a business has “done the numbers”.
But, In a world where employee engagement is regarded as critical to success it might be that you are not the numbers because you’re not doing these events

To wrap up - The old way of treating people at work has failed. According to Gallup only 30% of employees are engaged in their jobs and in such a competitive world this simply isn’t enough.

Team workshops and events, when designed in partnership with you, should help you to offset these awful numbers

workshops and events targeted at engagement should help your staff to innovate more, deliver better customer service and beat the competition.

If you’re ready for more from your next team workshop or event then we want to hear from you!

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