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Tip #3 to Improve Employee Engagement

As we highlighted in Tip #2, more than anything else, leadership along with the immediate supervisor drive employee engagement. Evidence shows that monthly 1-on-1 employee meetings between leaders and their employees positively impact employee engagement. Leaders should document and follow up with employees when something is brought to their attention during the 1-on-1 employee meeting.

Tip #3: Ask Leaders To Conduct 1-on-1 Meetings with Everyone On Their Team Every Month


Before launching a monthly, employee rounding program, here are a few tips to keep in mind:

  1. Duration. Monthly, 1-on-1 meetings should not take longer than 15 minutes to complete. If this is a completely new concept for your organization, the initial meetings will likely take longer than 15 minutes, but the duration of the meetings will decrease as leaders complete them on a monthly basis, trust us. 
  2. 1-on-1 employee meetings are about the employee...not the leader. The purpose of the 1-on-1 employee meeting is for the leader to learn about the employee's needs; it should NOT be used as a coaching session. Coaching / feedback sessions should be scheduled outside of the 1-on-1 employee meeting.
  3. Large spans-of-control. For organizations whose leaders have more than 40 direct reports, additional leadership support needs to be provided to conduct monthly 1-on-1 meetings with everyone on the team. High potential "team leads" / supervisors or leaders from departments / units with smaller spans-of-control may need to support the leaders with more than 40 direct reports.
  4. Employee rounding questions. Equip leaders with 3-5 questions to ask employees during the 1-on-1 employee meeting. Leaders have the flexibility to go "off script", but leaders will appreciate some guidance on what to ask during the employee rounding session.
  5. Trust But Verify. Simply asking leaders to document when they meet with their employees is a way to build an accountability structure to ensure monthly, 1-on-1 meetings are being completed.

Contact IMC at info@imc.consulting if you would like to learn more about our employee rounding philosophy or if employee rounding is a completely foreign concept for your organization.  
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