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Enable Senior Leaders to Drive Employee Engagement

Help senior leaders understand and own the impact of leadership on employee engagement.

  • Senior leaders have a significant impact on employee engagement but may be unaware of their impact or resistant to employee feedback.
  • Senior leaders may be struggling to prioritize employee engagement and leveraging it to drive innovation, productivity, and overall organizational success.

Executive Summary

Critical Insight

What employees want from senior leaders is actually quite simple: to be informed, have the opportunity to interact with senior leaders, and be involved in decisions that affect their work life.

Impact & Result

  • HR must help senior leaders understand and own their impact on employee engagement as a key component of a successful engagement program strategy that improves organizational outcomes.
  • Guide senior leaders to use McLean & Company’s 3i model as a foundation for increasing their connection with employees: encourage them to find ways to inform, interact with, and involve employees to increase engagement.
  • Offer senior leaders practical steps to improve in four key areas: sharing rationale for decisions, acting on feedback, building trust, and inspiring employees.

Research & Tools

1. Gain senior leaders’ buy-in

Develop a presentation to gain senior leaders’ buy-in, outline the driving need for engagement, summarize senior leaders’ accountabilities, and facilitate a discussion around engagement.

2. Prepare to deliver results

Launch the engagement survey and review results, identify which results to share with senior leaders, prepare the engagement results presentation, and plan a results meeting with senior leaders.

3. Deliver and discuss results

Hold a results meeting with senior leaders to discuss and reflect on the engagement results, address common objections from senior leaders by reframing the conversation, introduce McLean & Company’s 3i model as a foundation for action and review strategies to improve in four key areas to drive engagement.

4. Plan for action and execute

If applicable, schedule one-on-one meetings with senior leaders, help senior leaders develop an action plan, support senior leaders in their efforts to adopt engaging behaviors and monitor changes in engagement following senior leaders’ engagement efforts.

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