Boosting performance, increasing productivity, minimizing turnover and absenteeism — all these desirable outcomes are strongly linked to high employee engagement. A healthy organization recognizes that every stakeholder has a role to play in fostering this engagement, and leaders are particularly influential. Here, we unfold how leadership can harness Sparrow Connected’s ICaaS (Internal Communication as a Service) to bolster employee engagement and curate an employee-friendly workspace.
Leadership's Impact on Employee Engagement Using Sparrow's ICaaS
Exceptional leaders understand the weightiness of their roles and leverage their unique positions to maximize employee engagement. Their influence pervades the organizational culture, threading themes that underpin engagement. This becomes especially challenging for organizations that do not have a dedicated internal comms function. This is why Sparrow Connected designed ICaaS, a streamlined all-in-one internal communication solution. This service provides numerous opportunities for leaders to strengthen their impact.
Let's dive into 11 leadership strategies, many already considered requisite qualities for good managers:
1. Building Trust:
Engagement blooms with nurtured relationships, motivated employees, and shared progress. Trust is instrumental in making this happen. ICaaS can help promote meaningful interactions and facilitates actionable feedback, making transparency an easy goal to attain.
2. Prioritizing Organizational Health and Well-being:
With Sparrow Connected's iCaaS, leaders can easily check in on employee wellness, keeping a pulse on burnout risks and overall team health. Employee well-being not only retains talent but also fosters business growth.
3. Displaying Enthusiasm for Work:
Leaders who showcase genuine enthusiasm create a positivity ripple effect. ICaaS includes an award-winning platform which helps leaders communicate their passion and positivity at scale efficiently.
4. Setting Clear Expectations:
Proper expectation-setting is fundamental for any organization. ICaaS includes a panel of internal communications experts to aid leaders in outlining expectations and keeping a steady communication flow, boosting transparency.
5. Sharing Goals and Strategies:
Empower employees by sharing key decisions, goals, and strategies. Its transparency increases motivation and links personal tasks to the larger business strategy.
6. Encouraging Training and Development:
Leaders can promote learning opportunities, and ICaaS aids this process by enabling easy access to training materials and resources on the Sparrow Connected platform.
7. Recognize Achievement:
Leaders can propel employee engagement by acknowledging employee efforts. ICaaS makes it easy to regularly appreciate and recognize employees, significantly boosting their productivity.
8. Encourage Workplace Friendships and Socialization:
Social interactions enhance engagement as they make work enjoyable and open lines of communication. ICaaS includes Sparrow Connected’s award winning platform with functionalities that can make 2-way communications and interactions possible using Microsoft Teams and even posting approved messages on social media websites with its public posts feature.
9. Minimize Distractions:
ICaaS uses an omnichannel strategy designed for the end-user convenience and can create a distraction-free work environment by delivering the right message to the right audience on the right channel, which can enhance productivity and employee job satisfaction.
10. Listen to Employees and Follow-up:
Servicing employee feedback is vital to optimizing performance. ICaaS via Sparrow Connected’s award-winning platform offers tools to help leaders maintain open lines of communication and ensure feedback is handled effectively.
11. Collect Feedback:
Strengthen leadership by collecting employee insights. The feedback collection tools ICaaS’s platform provides, ultimately help to create a roadmap for leadership growth and development.
Maximize your leadership impact and create a people-first culture by adopting Sparrow’s Connected’s ICaaS. Explore the benefits of a fully outsourced, expert internal communications solution. Schedule a chat with one of our experts today to discuss how Sparrow Connected can become your internal communications partner.
