Employee engagement is a workplace approach designed to ensure that employees are committed to their organisation’s goals and values, motivated to contribute to organisational success, and are able at the same time to enhance their own sense of wellbeing.

Engaging employees is seen as a bit of a ‘holy grail’ when it comes to managing people and looking after their well-being.

So how exactly do people professionals – from departments like Human Resources, Learning and Development and Organisation Development - create the conditions to engage employees in their work?

That’s the topic of today’s podcast. To keep it simple, I’m going to focus on four key elements for engaging employees in the workplace.