You’ve conducted an employee engagement survey and gone over the results. You’ve seen which employees are the most engaged, so how should you reward them?
Consider promoting these employees, or creating what’s now being called “Intrapreneurs.” An Intrapreneur is defined as “An employee who is both willing and able to develop and implement innovative solutions, thereby adding surprising value to some or all of the organization’s stakeholders.”
“This higher tier is in the realm of intrapreneurship, where people are not only willing but also able to create unexpected value,” wrote Larry Myler, in an article at Forbes.com.
Upgrading or promoting your engaged employees into people who can act as leaders and come up with their own ways to help the company grow can have a number of benefits:
1. You gain fresh perspective from junior or frontline employees
2. Other employees see you’re willing to reward hard work and engagement
3. With nearly every company saying they encourage engagement, you get to be one that actually proves they do.
“Upgrading even one person from engaged to intrapreneur can create more value than migrating a larger number of disengaged people to the engaged group,” added Myler.
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