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Many of us may be familiar with Gallup’s research that has shown: Engaged employees are more productive, profitable, safer, create stronger customer relationships, and stay longer with their company than less engaged employees.

Now research also shows that employee engagement is a powerful factor in catalyzing “outside-the-box” thinking to improve management and business processes as well as customer service.  This Gallup survey of US workers showed:

• 59% of engaged employees strongly agreed with the statement that their current job “brings out their most creative ideas” – vs only 3% of actively disengaged employees

• Engaged workers are much more likely (6 out of 10) to react positively to creative ideas offered by fellow team members.  Thus, higher levels of employee engagement not only increases the likelihood individual employees will generate new ideas, but also that idea generation among engaged employees can be amplified when it occurs in a team setting. 

What are you doing today to drive employee engagement in your organization?  What if you simply took 20 minutes from your routine staff meeting and used that for brainstorming time?  What tough business challenges is your team facing today that couldn’t be improved by tapping into the creativity of your team members?

Next post…great brainstorming tips and tools!