Sometimes it seems like even the most promising of employee engagement tactics are fated to fall flat. Perhaps you’ve already attempted on-the-spot employee recognition, or tried to use sales contests as a motivator for sales teams, but are finding that they just don’t have the lasting power to keep your team firing at all cylinders? It might sound silly to ask, but: how do you keep employees engaged with engagement?
Employee engagement isn’t exactly rocket science, nor does it involve Penn and Teller scaled magic tricks. The key, however, is opting for a total employee engagement platform that aligns your company goals, mission, and culture with an employee’s need for meaningful work, growth, community, recognition and rewards.
Too many engagement programs focus on lighting the fire but miss an even more crucial step: keeping that fire ablaze. The result is an employee engagement program that turns out to be disjointed. Hence, companies see less long-term results than promised because their efforts to engage aren’t working in tandem with other important company agendas, like corporate wellness, learning & development, CSR efforts, or sales goals.
The reason why YouEarnedIt’s total employee engagement software has been so successful at sustaining growth for companies year after year is because of its unique ability to unite companywide goals, values, and initiatives already practiced. YouEarnedIt’s customers can easily infuse company-centric and employee-centric goals into one inclusive engagement platform, making it much easier to keep track of, and reward, desired results.
Recognition + Rewards
Take sales incentives, for example. With YouEarnedIt’s software, sales teams receive multiple ways to be incentivized at any one given time. The first is simple, and involves all employee-related departments: Peer-to-Peer recognition. Once the word gets out about a team or individual landing a new client or exceeding goals, magic starts to happen. For example, a VP announces to the company that a salesperson landed a new account. Employees from other departments read the announcement and start sending congratulatory recognition and rewards points to the sales person. Others now see the shout-outs on the recognition feed and chime in. Receiving points from peers fills up the salesperson’s redemption balance, giving them opportunities to redeem points for rewards they actually want. The peer recognition, plus the opportunity for rewards, become two separate channels that work together to incentivize sales teams. And that’s just the start of it.
Behavior Bonuses
On top of this, sales leaders and managers can launch sales-specific goals or games through YouEarnedIt’s software. Let’s say you want to reward salespeople for their call volume, presentations given, or for encouraging existing customers to add-on a new feature or service. Using the “Behavior Bonus” feature, YouEarnedIt customers can put the desired behavior into play so that any time a salesperson successfully pitches the new feature, they instantly receive a certain amount of points for that behavior. This can dramatically up the anty on a salesperson’s motivation to pitch the new feature. Plus, it sustains motivation during moments when managers might not have the time to reward employees each time a salesperson achieves a particular goal. The software does the work for you. The same logic applies to other behaviors a company wants to encourage. Here’s a corporate wellness example.
Cohesion of Data
Another reason why customers find such success with YouEarnedIt is because, not only does YouEarnedit’s software offer a way to unite disparate systems, it has a way to easily track all related data and progress via the manager dashboard.
If you have multiple engagement programs firing—one for corporate wellness, one for recognition, one for learning & development, another for sales incentives, and one more for employee rewards—the data can get muddled. When the data is muddled, keeping an accurate statement of what is working and what isn’t gets even harder. This is why companies aren’t getting the most bang for their buck with their existing programs. They’re wasting administrative time and don’t know how far their dollars are reaching with such a disjointed record of progress. Because YouEarnedIt showcases employee activity, leaders can see exactly where certain initiatives—and employees— are excelling. The data helps when deciding areas to improve, keep, or throw out (if ineffective). It shows how often employees engage with YouEarnedIt’s software, too. Leaders can see the type of rewards employees care most about, based on the activity of redemption (for example, are they redeeming points for developmental courses, team outings, charities, or devices that enhance fitness?). This data can become an invaluable tool for assessing internal matters that ultimately affect the bottom line.
Because of our totally inclusive approach, there is less room for failure, and more tools for our customers to sustain the fiery glow of engagement. Read more about how our Total Employee Engagement Program is increasing ROI here.