Leadership & Employee Engagement

Within my organization our leadership has taken the initiative to look for ways to help staff get more engaged in the business. My organization provides health and fitness programs to our local community. Although there is a lot of focus on being physically fit and exercising we have noticed a mentality that looks at membership and fitness classes as an expendable item that is not high on the priority list for a lot of people. This mentality has caused us to have to re-evaluate our programs and staff needs to support them. Even with the hard economic times we believe physical fitness and exercise is important and beneficial to assist in relieving stress and not allowing physical ailments to complicate things even more during this time.

As my organization has worked through this the leadership teams has challenged everyone to contribute ideas and/or suggestions that could lead to new members or classes. This development would in turn create a need for more staff or more hours for current staff. All of this will hopefully lead to a deeper sense of ownership and support of the vision and mission of the organization.

Leadership and employee engagement can be very beneficial to both the staff and the organization if everyone is supportive and participating in the process.