#📓 #🎥 #🟡 # Employee Engagement: How to increase employee and your own engagement by asking 6 active questions. ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>May 08, 2022</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Jan 03, 2023</small> 🏷️ [[Employee Engagement]], [[coaching]] **Author:** Marshall Goldsmith **Citation:** Goldsmith, M. (2022). *Employee engagement: How to increase employee and your own engagement by asking 6 active questions* [Video]. Coaching.com. https://www.coaching.com/marshall-goldsmith/#video_anch --- # Abstract ~ 3 Sentence Summary Global employee engagement is at an all-time low. All of the focus of traditional employee engagement is on what the company can do to engage employees. Need to ask employees active questions to coach them to engage themselves. # Notes & Important Ideas - Traditional efforts to improve [[employee engagement]] are focused on external factors like training, empowerment, and fair compensation systems. - Despite focusing on these factors for the past 30 years, global employee engagement is at an all-time low. > [!quote] 100% of the focus on employee engagement was not what you can do to engage yourself, it was what the company can do to engage you. - Goldsmith argues we need to remember John Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you" speech. - Employee engagement surveys all ask passive questions. - Negative responses blame the environment. - Passive questions lead employees to blame environment for lack of engagement. - Recommendation to ask active questions that begin with "Did I do my best to..." 1. Did I do my best to set clear goals? 2. Did I do my best to achieving the goals that I set? 3. Did I do my best to find meaning? 4. Did I do my best to be happy? 5. Did I do my best to build positive relationships? 6. Did I do my best to be fully engaged? - Research shows that people who ask these questions every day report improvement in all areas. - Questions focus individual's efforts on what they have control over - did I do my best? - Take personal responsibility for engagement. # Connections to Other Materials # Personal Reflection & Application --- # Other References