3 proven ways leaders can inspire disengaged employees
July 12, 2024
Imagine this: You’ve got a team of ten rowers on your boat. Three people are rowing their hearts out, dripping sweat, and giving all they’ve got. There are five people just sitting with their arms crossed, disengaged, and adding dead weight. Moreover, you have two people who are rowing in the opposite direction. How fast is your boat going now?
Sadly, this is the true picture of employee engagement status in our global workplaces. Gallup, a global authority on all things relating to employee engagement, found that engaged workers only account for 23% of our workforce, the actively disengaged represented 18%, and the fence-sitting, quietly quitting, the not engaged group accounted for a whopping 59%.
