Today’s Advisor gives you 12 practical survey questions you can use to measure your employees’ engagement with your training.
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In a BLR webinar entitled “Worker Safety: How To Implement Truly Effective Training That Reduces Injuries, Costs, and Lawsuits,” Michael D. Lawrence of Summit Safety Technologies (www.SafetyProgramNow.com) discussed how businesses can improve their training programs.
The answer to the question of how to motivate and engage employees is locked away in the employees, and in their values, beliefs and needs. Each of us has a unique set of motivational drivers. Unless a leader can align with these, it will be difficult to motivate and engage employees over the long term.
Work must appeal to an employee’s self-interest. If it is not in their interest employees are not likely to want to do it, or perhaps they will not continue to do it.
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To find out what motivates employees, talk to them. Use an employee engagement survey to measure the key indicators that generate employee motivation and engagement.
12 Questions to Measure Employee Engagement
- Do you know what is expected of you at work?
- Do you have materials and equipment needed to do your work right?
- Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?
- In the last seven days, have you received recognition or praise for doing good work?
- Does your supervisor, or someone at work, seem to care about you as a person?
- Is there someone at work who encourages your development?
- Do your opinions seem to count?
- Does mission of your company make you feel your job is important?
- Are your fellow employees committed to doing quality work?
- Do you have a best friend at work?
- In the last six months, has someone at work talked to you about your progress?
- In the last year, have you had opportunities to learn and grow?
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Why It Matters
- One of the most crucial steps for effective training may not involve actual training at all.
- For training to be effective, you must first make sure employees are engaged enough with their work to want to do it more safely and more productively.
- Using the survey questions in today’s Advisor with your employees is one way to encourage employee engagement.