For all organizational leaders who are interested in having highly engaged employees the following is invaluable and practical. Five years ago the Gallup research group did an extensive study covering 125 million people in 189 countries that concluded on the following 12 questions that are “the best predictors of employee and workgroup performance.” Want to know if your people are engaged? – ask them!…or bring it a little closer to home and ask YOURSELF. What are the answers? What resonates? Any conclusions?
Gallup’s Twelve Questions
- Do I know what is expected of me at work?
- Do I have the tools and the equipment I need to do my work right?
- At work, do I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day?
- In the last seven days, have I received recognition or praise for doing good work?
- Does my supervisor, or someone at work, seem to care about me as a person?
- Is there someone at work that encourages my development?
- At work, do my opinions seem to count?
- Does the mission/purpose of my company make me feel my job is important?
- Are my co-workers committed to doing quality work?
- Do I have a best friend at work?
- In the last six months, has someone at work talked to me about my progress?
- This last year, have I had opportunities to learn and grow?
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