Employers who want a productive, engaged workforce could do more to train, develop and support those in their managerial ranks. That’s because managers are the secret sauce.

3. Empower Teams To Shape A Shared Vision. To enhance engagement at the team level, team leaders can encourage members to collaboratively define their collective aspirations.

Engagement doesn’t come from written policies or one-way speeches. It comes from two-way interaction with individual employees, and clear indications of active listening. 2.

Once they had data showing these weekly one-on-ones reliably boosted team engagement and performance, Cisco took the next step. 3. The business ties meeting performance to job performance.