How To Create A Work Culture Where People Choose To Be ‘All In’

Engagement—the degree to which people invest discretionary effort on the job—has been all the rage in business circles for years. “Engaged” employees are absorbed by and enthusiastic about their work. They have a sense of psychological ownership of their organization’s purpose and success.

The Gallup organization’s Q12 survey has gathered data from tens of millions of people. The good news is that employee engagement seems to be slowly increasing. The bad news is that engagement of U.S. employees still hovers at around 35%.

Maybe double talk is part of the problem. Mind-numbing jargon can render good intentions meaningless.

Think about it. How often have you heard (or said) something like this: “Listen up, folks. We’re here to touch base, circle the wagons, get our ducks in a row, and get everyone working on the same page. Let’s make sure we pick the low-hanging fruit now so we can leverage everyone’s bandwidth. We’re going to beat the competition only if we become game-changing paradigm-shifters and go to the next level.”

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