20 Quotes About Employee Engagment
As leaders, one of our top jobs is to engage our employees. We need to make them feel that they are vital to our success and that the work they produce each day moves us closer to our organization’s ideals.
There have been countless books written and lectures made about the topic of engaging employees. In this article, I’ll share my favorite employee engagement quotes.
First, I will share a few quotes about what people want and expect from their work environment. The rest of this article contains quotes about how leaders can engage their employees at work.
This decade has been challenging for a number of reasons. When times are challenging, it’s sometimes difficult to remember the value of engaged employees and the impact leaders have on day-to-day employee engagement.
In planning this article, I couldn’t think of a better place to start than this quote attributed to C.S. Lewis. It’s a guiding thought for the rest of this article.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
C. S. Lewis
If you’re wondering why employee engagement matters, consider this quote from Frances Hesselbein. It speaks to competitiveness; not only your employee’s competitiveness but to your organization’s competitiveness.
Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.
Frances Hesselbein
What Engages Employees?
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves.
Jag Randhawa
People forget years and remember moments.
Ann Beattie
The way your employees feel is the way your customers will feel. And if your employees don’t feel valued, neither will your customers.
Sybil F. Stershic
How to Engage Employees
The remaining quotes outlined in this article are dedicated to helping leaders understand what’s in their control when engaging employees.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Seneca
Most men are not scolded out of their opinion.
President Martin Van Buren
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
President Woodrow Wilson
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward
We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
Mary Kay Ash
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
President Abraham Lincoln
There are two things people want more than sex and money: recognition and praise.
Mary Kay Ash
Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
Warren Bennis
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
Charles M. Schwab
Make people feel like the hero of their journey and they will do more.
Maxime Lagacé
What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
Anita Roddick
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
General George S. Patton
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-confidence of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
Niccolò Machiavelli
A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say: We did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
This last quote by Lao Tzu is especially helpful. If you’re leading a team today, how would you judge your teammates’ engagement? How would they measure you if they used Lao Tzu’s standard?
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