Employee Engagement – what does it all mean?

Employee engagement. Positive employee experience. Development and mentoring.

What exactly do these words all mean? There’s no denying in the post Covid world that employers are focussing on these in a bid to attract talent but why have such employers not always been practising this way?

Engaging employees should be as important as the pay and benefits package offered. Feeling empowered, productive and secure in a job role helps the company culture and spread positivity. Having policies that improve team members quality of life at work through various strategies help maximise the employee experience and ensure they have job satisfaction to help them thrive as individuals, and not just for the company.

Giving people the capacity, reason and freedom to engage, makes for connected employees. Learned and demonstrated behaviours, not just for management down but across the board, help embed this ethos. Mentoring, peer to peer sharing, training and networking help with development and engagement.

We listen to our team. Wilson Partners has a dedicated wellbeing group where the primary focus is to encourage our team to take control of their health and wellbeing through a range of regular events and activities designed to support and promote mental and physical health. We have regular employee surveys asking the team for feedback on anything from pensions to team outings and act on the outcomes, not just tick the box. Every team member has access to volunteering days where they can either give their time to our chosen charity Alexander Devine, or one of their own choosing. We have a running club and a book club. And some say, most importantly, we have Friday beers!

Thinking about the employee as an individual rather than a payroll number is something Wilson Partners has always done, and always will do. Everyone who works for Wilson Partners is their own person, with hopes, dreams, ambitions and commitments that we appreciate and encourage. Our people are the most important part of our business. We want nothing more for them to be happy in themselves and their work. Our team completed the Three Peaks challenge…you can’t get more engaged than that!

Emma Montgomerie is our Head of Employee Experience. If you’d like to find out more about employee engagement, Friday beers or becoming a Wilson Partners team member just drop her a line.