Enable Others to Act-
Promotes an environment in which employees feel free to make
suggestions and complaints.
Yes, the leadership skill, enable others to act does align with specific
questions in the engagement survey. These questions include: “I feel
encouraged to come up with new and better ways of doing things” and
“Promotes an environment in which employees feel free to make
suggestions and complaints”. These questions convey the importance in
enabling others to act because they are not afraid to come up with
better ideas than their own leader because they are a team and if one
individual is successful the whole team will be. Furthermore, being able
to make suggestions and complaints are actions that many employers
don’t allow to happen and when they are encouraged the supportive
work environment, the great work ethic and better outcomes for the
team are all positively reinforced.
Inspire a Shared Vision-
Provides an inclusive environment where each employee is considered
as an individual.
Yes, the leadership skill, inspire a shared vision does align with
behaviours identified for improvement in the engagement survey. For
example, “I am proud to be a part of this company.”, inspires a healthy
work environment to be a strong shared vision for the company. In
addition, when you are proud to be a part of a company you choose to
show it with others outside of the company because you understand
their morals and that they are supporting you within your work life and
personal life and this is what employers look for when job searching.
Furthermore, “Provides an inclusive environment where each employee
is considered as an individual,” is also a behaviour identified for
improvement in the engagement survey and aligns with the leadership
skill of inspiring a shared vision. For example, an employee that is heard
and understood is more likely to have trust and better communication
skills that a good team needs to be successful. These correlate to each
other strongly because if the vision of the company is not shared for the
simple purpose of bettering the work environment, then there will
certainly be uncertainty in the rest of the company’s vision and values.
