A sample employee engagement guide prepared for small businesses having issues of absenteeism & retention.

1. Engagement Plan
BY: Manish K Gupta, Stanford Laboratories Pvt. Ltd
Mehatpur Industrial Area- UNA (HP)

2. WHY?
• Our Attrition rate is around X% Per month (basis Apr’21-Apr’22)
• Unauthorized absenteeism around X% PM (basis Apr’21-Apr’22)
• Unplanned Medical Leaves (ESI) around Y% PM (basis Apr’21-Apr’22)
• Planned leaves around Z% PM (basis Apr’21-Apr’22)
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people
are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.
Teams with high employee engagement rates are More productive and
have Less internal theft than those with low engagement.

3. WHY?
With engaged employees, the profitability of the
company also increases. It affects the company’s
bottom line.
Companies with highly engaged employees generate
26 per cent higher revenue per employee.
When the employees are engaged, they make the
company's goal their own and stay committed to it
thus improving the rate of retention in an
organization.
It also reduces the rate of absenteeism. Engaged
employees are ‘less likely to fall sick.’ A research by
Gallup shows that engaged employees take 2.7 sick
days per year, while disengaged employees take 6.2
sick days.

4. Two components:
Inspiring purpose – Ensures
employees find meaning in
what they do.
01
Empowering people – It's been
observed that when people are
empowered, the desire to
work comes from within.
02

5. MYTHS About Employee Engagement
Myth #1: Sincere
employees are engaged
employees
•Myth #2: Employee
engagement requires a
huge budget
Myth #3: Employee
engagement is all
theory/employee
engagement is just
another trend
Myth #4: Employee
engagement is solely
HR’s responsibility
Myth #5: Happy
employees are engaged
employees

6. ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES
1. Employee of the month
Recognizing hard work and achievement in the workplace increase employee morale, encourage healthy competition,
and creates a positive atmosphere.
With higher motivation comes better engagement, happiness, and ultimately retention.
2. Regular Feedback
Giving regular feedback is the perfect way to keep your employees in the loop about their performance and hence an
active part of the employee engagement strategy.

7. ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES
3. TGIS Meetings (Thank God, Its. Saturday)
The corporate share the entire week's happenings with the whole company.
An open Q/A session where anyone can voice their doubts about the company. A total and complete
transparency.
4. Team Lunches
when teams eat together, team dynamics improve and increases productivity and team building.

8. ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES
5. Encourage employees to pursue side projects
Creating a culture known as “Intrapreneur”
maximum number of the god-level companies (think Twitter, Instagram, GitHub) started as being a side project?
One of the many benefits of side projects is that it forces the employees to think outside the box, to get their
creative juices flowing, and to effectively manage their time.
Thus, employees will be more excited to come to work and hence be more engaged. Therefore, a win in
incorporating employee engagement activities.

9. ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES
6. Celebrate those birthdays, anniversaries and personal milestones
employees will be less likely to be engaged if they feel that their workplace is without any soul or emotions.
7. The first-day welcome card/gift to new hires
Employee engagement starts from Day ONE.
8. Mentorship program
assign an older employee as a mentor. Also, to make the process fun, you can throw in some additional benefits for employees
volunteering to be mentors.

10. ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES
9. Boosting morale by volunteering for a cause
To give someone a part of your happiness will multiply it by a thousand folds.
When people participate in the art of giving, it inspires in them a feeling of peace, joy, and contentment.
Indeed, the notion of "giving back" is very, very powerful.
A day at the nursing home where the employees help in the day-to-day tasks. It might be volunteering at
the animal shelter. Then again, it might be taking the children from an orphanage to a picnic or a park.

11. ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES
10. Meditation time to manage work-life stress
Research says that practicing meditation for even 10 minutes control stress, decrease anxiety, improve
cardiovascular health, and achieve a higher capacity for relaxation.
At the start of the day, encourage employees to meditate for a minimum of 10 minutes before resuming
any work. It will enable them to keep stress at bay, focus better, and perform better throughout the day.
11. Office Trips are great for team building

12. ENGAGEMENT
ACTIVITIES
• 12. Silly Trophies are fun and engaging Awarding silly trophies
is a way of celebrating the uniqueness and sharing a laugh
around.
• Give the titles of "The Foodie," "The Most Likely To Cry During A
Movie," "The Mom," and much more! Make these awards fun,
creative and loud.
• 13. Focus on Brainstorming Sessions
• Brainstorming remains the greatest and the most effective way to
generate new ideas.
• conducting these brainstorming sessions is hugely profitable for the
organizations, mainly because when structured correctly,
brainstorming sessions give excellent results.
• Encourages critical thinking and out-of-the-box ideas.
• Also, it helps in team building.
• Furthermore, it generate diverse range of ideas.
• Brings out the **introverted employees **out of their shell and
encourages them to contribute.

13. ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES
• 14. Conduct frequent training development sessions
• conducting frequent training sessions are crucial in building
employee morale and ensuring that they don't lose their
self-confidence.
• Frequent training sessions help in:
Keeping an employee updated on current technologies.
It will assure that an employee will be able to give
their optimal performance.
Helps to meet your employees' needs for continuous
growth and career development.

14. ENGAGEMENT
ACTIVITIES
• 15. workplace Wellness programme
• Health and wellbeing is an integral component of employee
engagement. An employee-wellness programme is basically
the summation of all the health and wellness initiatives taken
up by an organization to promote the well-being of its
employees.
• The health of the employees in your organization is directly
linked to the growth of the company. It directly influences
productivity and the performance level of individuals.
• An effective corporate wellness programme reduces
absenteeism
• Corporate health and wellness programs substantially reduce
healthcare cost.
• 16. People care for each other
• Helping others to attain their personal goals, helping your
teammates when they need somebody like a family member.

15. ENGAGEMENT
ACTIVITIES
• 17. Creating sustainability goals
• Saving Water, Electricity & Food for our planet Earth.
“Running a business with unhealthy and unhappy employees is
like trying to drive a car with a bad engine. It may eventually get
you where you want to go, but the trip will be difficult, and
you’ll waste time and resources”

16. THANK YOU