Is your leadership inspiring employee engagement? Do your employees find you approachable? One way to figure out if you’re on the right path with your staff members is to listen to the feedback they give you.

Look for Employee Engagement Clues

Terry St. Marie at TerryStarbucker.com in “Proof Positive: The 10 Pieces Of Employee Feedback That Lead To Leadership Greatness” details examples of employee feedback that will take the pulse of your staff’s perceptions about their jobs and your leadership.

Proof Positive: The 10 Pieces Of Employee Feedback That Lead To Leadership Greatness

All leaders need to get good and consistent verbal feedback from their teammates, but there are 10 pieces of feedback in particular that ratify our more human effectiveness and eventually lead to leadership greatness. They are rich with meaning as to the kind of leader you are, and are destined to become.  Every time I heard one of these sentences, I knew I was on the right track, and it spurred me on to keep reaching for greatness. Read more…

The one example of Terry’s examples that was especially meaningful to me is “Thanks for showing up here today, we normally don’t see executives.” When I look back on my days as a new professional, I remember instances when I would give many hours to a project or an event, and then no one from top management would show up. Not that I needed them there, but their presence would have recognized the importance of my efforts. After this happened to me a couple of times, I made a promise to clearly show encouragement to my team. I did, and they noted. Mission accomplished.

 

[social_quote duplicate=”no” align=”default”]If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.       ~John Quincy Adams[/social_quote]