Second, we know that if you do happen to work on a team you are twice as likely to score high on the eight engagement items, and that this trend linking engagement to teams extends to multiple teamsâin fact, the most engaged group of workers across the working world are those who work on five distinct teams.
Third, just like Lisa, those team members who said they trusted their team leader were twelve times more likely to be fully engaged at work.
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- âOf those who say they work in teams, 65 percent of them report that they work on more than one team, and that this team is not represented in the org chart.
Clearly, there are many reasons why engagement levels remain relatively low across the world, some of those reasons relating to the nature of work itself, some to macroeconomic conditions in the region or country, and some to the specifics of the industry or company. However, it appears that one of the reasons that engagement remains relatively low across the world is that organizations do not understand, or act on, the vital power of teams.
- Organizations do not know how many teams they have, who is on them, or which are their best and most engaged teams.
- When organizations make great teams their primary focusâwhat creates them, what can fracture themâwe may well see significant rises in global engagement.
Of those who strongly agreed that they trusted their team leader 45 percent were Fully Engaged. Of those who didnât strongly agree only 6 percent were Fully Engaged. A worker is twelve times more likely to be Fully Engaged if she trusts her team leader.
One way to think of these results is to imagine a team leader having three distinct jobs. Her first is to ensure her team members feel connected to the purpose and future of the company, even though she may not directly define those. Her second is to ensure that her team members, as a group, understand and support one another. And her third is to ensure that her team members, individually, understand whatâs expected of them and how they can do their best work now and in the future, all while feeling recognized for who they are.
18. LOVE @ WORK
âBack in 2019, as I and my ADP Research Institute team were analyzing the data from our global study of the worldâs workers, we discovered just how pervasive and powerful âwork is teamworkâ remains today. Workers who reported that they felt part of a team were not only 2.7 times more likely to be fully engaged, they were three times more likely to be highly resilient and two times more likely to report a strong sense of belonging to their organization.
We asked people if they trusted their teammates, their team leader, and their senior leaders. Those who strongly agreed that they trusted two of these three groups were three times more likely to be fully engaged and highly resilient. Those who strongly agreed that they completely trusted all three groups were fifteen times more likely to be fully engaged and forty-two times more likely to be highly resilient.