Is Your Organization Engaged? Here’s How to Tell.

For all the talk about engagement — what it is, how to achieve it, why it matters — there’s one question that receives precious little attention: How do you quantify employee engagement? How do you measure it? How do you know when you’re on the right track?

There are various answers to that question, some more quantitative than others. Employee engagement surveys, for example, can provide some helpful benchmarks and meaningful metrics.

A bit less formally, but no less importantly, there are some key qualities that define a truly engaged workplace — and if you want to know what kind of progress you’re making toward true employee engagement, looking for these qualities can be a good beginning.

Here are some ways you can tell that your organization has achieved a healthy measure of engagement:

You have a real, year-round strategy in place. Start by asking yourself this question: Is employee engagement something you push hard for a week or two each year, but keep in the back burner the rest of the time? Or do you have a full-time employee engagement plan in place? Simply having a plan implemented reveals much about the company’s intentions, priorities, and potential engagement level.

You have formal structures in place to get employee feedback. Remember the…