The Top New Year’s Resolution for Your Business!

When the clock strikes twelve on New Year’s Eve night, every business owner should make themselves a promise. Made in blood (just kidding 😉), this important New Year’s resolution will help the last 53% of your team understand how their work contributes to the company’s bottom line.

The top New Year’s resolution for your business in 2017 is to help your team see the direct correlation between their contributions and company performance. Click to Tweet

This requires you to improve your leadership skills! As a result, you’ll see your data and employee engagement, satisfaction, and productivity, reach new highs!

Thanks to the Forbes article below by Lisa Quast (known for helping people maximize their potential), you can fulfill this New Year’s resolution for your business! 🎉 🙌

Four Ways To Help Your Employees Understand How They Contribute To The Company's Bottom Line

If you’re a people manager, you might look around at the bustling activity of your team and the looks of intense determination on their faces and assume that everyone understands how their work contributes to the company’s bottom line.

But you would be wrong. At least based on a recent Robert Half Management Resources survey, which found that only 47% of workers are able to make the connection between their day-to-day duties and how they impact the company’s financials.

Well that’s not so bad, you might be thinking.

OK, but let’s flip the statistic. What it really means is that 53% of your employees don’t understand how what they do on a daily basis is actually helping to improve or grow the company.

That lack of connecting information—of being able to see the link between daily activities and the bigger picture—can negatively impact employee engagement, satisfaction and even productivity.

“Employees who see the direct correlation between their contributions and company performance are more engaged, make better spending decisions, and can identify new ways to increase productivity and growth,” Tim Hird, executive director of Robert Half Management Resources, said upon release of the survey results.

To help your employees, try this:

Source: Lisa Quast

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