10 Ways to Re-engage Yourself & Your Workplace

Why Re-engage? Enjoying living life at its fullest, both with yourself and with others, requires involvement and participation.

Being fully engaged in life is a conscious decision. People who choose to dissociate can lose their enthusiasm to even put forth the effort. They disengage for a variety of reasons—boredom, disinterest, rejection, apathy, overwhelm, or exhaustion. Once a person begins to disengage, their apathy can bleed over into other areas of their life, which further disconnects them from what and who might actually bring them joy.

If this has happened to you, there is hope for getting back in the game again. To move from disengagement to re-engagement, ask the right questions to find the right answers.

Ask yourself: Am I willing to look at my life to figure out why I’m  doing what I am doing and why I’m not doing what I need to for involvement in meaningful connections and activities?

7 Questions to Ask Yourself to Re-engage

1. Are you living a balanced life? (Is anything taking up too much of your time, or do you need to initiate any change?)
2. Is your work meaningful and making a difference? (Does it energize you or deplete you?)
3. Do you desire to change and be engaged again? (What can you identify that might be standing in the way?)
4. Do you tend to be an optimist or a pessimist? (Looking for the best in yourself, others, and situations?)
5. Do you set goals and have dreams? (Do you have active direction and hopefulness for future outcomes?)
6. Do you pursue new opportunities? (If not, what can you see yourself doing to help make that happen?)
7. What are you willing to do about it? It’s up to you!

While Release the Power of Re³ is bursting with ideas for you to create positive change and transformation, you will also find profound ways to personally re-engage. Among my favorites are:

• Lighten-up with laughter and find humor in simple things. Be playful, silly, and find your fun.
• Step up, volunteer, participate, and get involved.
• Do something nice for another person.
• Share your heart; tell others you love and appreciate them.
• Read uplifting and inspirational books for empowering ideas.
• Teach yourself something new and embrace learning.
• Choose to be positive.
• Engage in activities that fulfill, excite, and delight you.

Engagement in the Workplace

When employees are fully engaged, they produce, contribute, and perform at higher levels. As a result, active, engaged team players bring much more value to their companies.  One of our greater challenges in the workplace today, however, is the serious level of disengagement among the staff. It is a troubling symptom of isolation, occurring for many reasons.

The disengagement statistics are alarming and it is costing employers billions of dollars a year. Great leaders who are challenged with such disengagement must take swift action for re-engaging their people if they hope to keep their culture strong and viable.

10 Ways to Re-engage Your Workplace

1. Personally get to know and care about your people.
2. Create an emotionally safe culture where employees feel valued, respected, and appreciated.
3. Use healthy communication skills with active listening.
4. Invest in your people with training and coaching for personal and professional development.
5. Praise in public, criticize in private.
6. Communicate a clear vision, shared goals, and expectations.
7. Create a culture where hidden talents can be cultivated.
8. Catch people doing things right and say “thank you.”
9. Involve others in change initiatives to gain buy-in.
10. Build and nurture team unity and spirit.

 “To be fully engaged, we must be physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused and spiritually aligned with a purpose beyond our immediate self-interest.”

 —Jim Loehr

Motivational Keynote Speaker and Change Expert Susan C. Young helps organizations leverage the power of Change & Resilience to Boost Positivity, Improve Engagement and Transform their Teams to make a POSITIVE IMPACT in life and business. This is an excerpt from her new book, Release the Power of Re³ . . . Review, Redo & Renew for Positive Change & Transformation. To learn more,  please visit www.SusanCYoung.com or www.amazon.com/author/susancyoung.