Are We Helping Create the Capacity to Engage?

This week, we’ll dive deeper into the last driver of employee engagement: psychological availability (having the capacity to engage). This one is influenced by outside factors , but employers still have a big impact particularly in recognizing job-driven stressors, as well as providing training and feedback. 

Here are some considerations for psychological availability:

• Does the person have the physical resources they need?
• Is job stress impacting the person’s ability to renew outside of work? 
• How is their confidence in their ability to do the job?
• Are they confident that if they invest themselves, they’ll succeed?
• Is there enough training and feedback so that team members can feel confident to do their work?

Action: Use this checklist to gauge whether your team has psychological availability.

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“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our sense of self acceptance.” – Brene Brown

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