The GrowLoop Journal
An employee engagement use case
Definition:
For our purposes we’ll define Employee Engagement as…
An employee’s interest and drive to give their best, genuine effort to the responsibilities of their role for their own individual success, the success of their employer, and the success of their employer’s customers.
The research organization, Gallup, has scrutinized specific key performance outcomes to measure an employee’s engagement. What Gallup has found is that employee engagement affects key business outcomes.
In other words, if employees are more engaged they are more likely to give digressionary effort to their role, which translates to better customer experiences and higher profits.
Problem:
The problem is that if your employees are disengaged it likely means your organization is not as profitable or successful as it could be, and you may not hang on to, even talented, employees for too long.
Here are some troubling statistics from Gallup:
- 87% of employees worldwide are not engaged at work [source]
- 51% of employees are actively looking for a new job or watching for new job openings [source].
- Managers account for at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement scores [source]. (likely because the managers are not clear on their objectives and/or they are disengaged themselves)
Solution:
The GrowLoop Journal is a simple step that can be used to begin improving yours and your employees’ engagement.
Many employees want to feel part of something bigger than themselves, yet cared for, respected, and recognized by their employer as an individual. The GrowLoop Journal is designed for individual professionals to be their personal, positive mindset cultivator, and accountability partner toward goal achievement and increased productivity.
There is science that proves the physical and mental health benefits of journal writing.
Inspired by these findings the GrowLoop Journal uses simple daily prompts to help your employees take more focused action toward specific goals, recognize their daily victories, and reflect on their interactions with others in a way that can improve their mood over time. This can help lead to more engaged and productive employees, which translates to happier customers and higher profits.
It all starts by building the simple habit of journaling for at least 15 minutes a day in the GrowLoop Journal.
Managers and their teams can all use the GrowLoop Journal to follow the daily prompts, improve their mindset, and productivity, together, while each using their own individual journal (and no, they don’t have to share what they write in the journal – just the results of their mood and goal achievements).
Among many positive outcomes of Gallup's research of organizations with highly engaged employees, they found that companies with highly engaged workforces…
So How Could The GrowLoop Journal Help Employee Engagement at your Organization?
- Purchase a GrowLoop Journal for each member of your team
- introduce it as a team-building, cultural improvement, and productivity increasing initiative
- Have each team member set goals related to their role that rolls up to a specific, main team goal
(keep in mind, the journals themselves are for the individual employees - managers don't need to review them. The journals serve as a tool to help move the team closer, in an efficient way, toward its overall main goal) - Require each team member to spend 15 to 20 minutes journaling each day following the prompts in the GrowLoop Journal
- As you have weekly team meetings, encourage team members to share their actions, victories, team gratitude, and overall mood with each other. These discussions increase team communication, empathy, collaboration, and overall goal achievement efficiency for the group.
"I've been using the GrowLoop Journal...and it's been a transformative experience...I wanted to purchase a few copies for my team members at CultureCon."
--Zach Blumenfeld | Co-Founder | CultureCon LLC
--Zach Blumenfeld | Co-Founder | CultureCon LLC
