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What part do leaders play in  improving employee engagement? Here's an excerpt from a great article:

Only 12% of employees leave their jobs for more money, but the other 88% of departing employees do so because they are no longer motivated. Your cost account can breathe a sigh of relief to learn what all employers should know: To improve employee retention rates, it's rarely a question of offering more money. And if or when it is, the employee usually leaves soon afterwards anyway.

Humans everywhere like to know where they are going, and what's happening along the way. The same is true for your dealership’s employees.

If you've ever driven across the country with young children in the car, you'll be familiar with the old cliché, Mom and Dad! Are we there yet?

It’s all about being HAPPY! Isn’t it? At the end of the day everyone just wants to be happy. Happy people are more positive and productive. They set goals and accomplish them. A happy workforce can be the deciding factor to a company’s success.

Employee communication is critical to the success of your business. Your eployees are your bigget asset, don't keep them in the dark by practising Mushroom Management.

If you’re familiar with Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) in the mental health field, then it won’t be a stretch for you to understand how the disease manifests itself in the sickest of dealership organizations worldwide.

Motivation 101 - 5 steps you can you can use to motivate your employees.

When your employees are motivated and engaged in their jobs, it's only good news for your company!

Click here to read Ben's article on Employee Engagement

What’s the rationale?

With Gallup and other researchers reporting that 7 out of 10 workers are “actively disengaged” in the workplace today, organizational psychologists view coaching as a means to energize employee engagement levels while improving both individual and team productivity and performance.

If you ever needed a quick rule-of-thumb to decide whether a given activity supports employee engagement, these two rules are what you've been looking for: Empowerment and Inclusion --- get them working and you're good.

When a sole individual in a dealership is the only one wishing to pursue an initiative of employee engagement, there are steps to take. The first order of business is survival, followed by a "recruitment" of potentially like-minded individuals onto a better path for all.