What Employees Really Need

A recent article on Inc.com described the factors that drive what could effectively be called employee engagement. One of the eight items is Connection:

Employees don’t want to work for a paycheck; they want to work with and for people.

A kind word, a short discussion about family, a brief check-in to see if they need anything... those individual moments are much more important than meetings or formal evaluations.

While many of the other factors can be improved by a more engaging communication environment, as mentioned in an earlier post, connection between and among colleagues is dramatically improved by a social business network.

8 Things Your Employees Need Most | Inc.com.

(thanks for the reference, Lisa Underkoffler)