Earlier this year, Gallup reported that employee engagement in the U.S. fell to its lowest level in a decade in 2024 (with only 31% of employees engaged). With that statistic as a backdrop, we’ve read with interest a newly-released book by Harvard Business Review named “The Power of Mattering: How Leaders Can Create a Culture of Significance” by Zach Mercurio.
A researcher and author in purposeful leadership and positive organizational psychology, Zach espouses a viewpoint that a hidden epidemic of insignificance is driving disengagement, disengagement, and under performance. He advocates that leaders who help their team members to be seen, heard, valued and perceived as essential can reverse this worrisome downward employee engagement trend.
Zach introduces a pragmatic yet high impact framework to help leaders make their daily interactions with their people more meaningful:
- Noticing: the practice of seeing and hearing others
- Affirming: the practice of showing people how their unique gifts make a difference
- Needing: the practice of showing people how they’re relied on and indispensable
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