The feeling of being appreciated and valued is something that every individual needs to elevate their confidence and strengthen their commitment to their goals. Be it in our personal or professional lives, when we know that someone finds the importance to the things we usually do, there is a sort of satisfaction that helps us determine the right motivation to continue bettering our purposes.

As we get older, we gradually see the differences in our priorities and how it is complicated to manage all these. To obtain the right balance, it is important to be part of a group that nurtures a positive culture to keep an individual’s felicity and productivity. As an example, to drive financial success, most of the companies use strategic activities that will make their consumers determine their product or services in the most distinctive way. In the Philippines, there is a local brand of toothpaste known as “Hapee”, which has succeeded in infiltrating the toothpaste industry against giant competitors abroad. This brand is only of its kind, as they hire 30% of their total workforce with deaf and hearing impaired people. These employees receive equal opportunities, proper attention, and quality training that goes the same for their abled employees. Through this engagement, the founder of the brand revealed that every year, among 6 or 7 of the hearing impaired employees, they were always in the top 10 best performers in the factory.

This kind of engagement in the workforce brings a positive outlook that effectively tweaks the employee’s motivation to perform well regardless of their condition. In research conducted by Queens School of Business and Gallup Organization (as cited in Seppälä et. al., 2015), the data shows that disengaged workers had a 37% rate of nonattendance, and for organizations with low employee engagement, a rate of 18% lower productivity and 16% lower profitability were scored, while businesses that have highly engaged employees take delight in a perfect 100% more job applications.

The data evidently showed that employees who are more engaged can deliver their tasks well and are more dedicated to showing up at work every day.

When we think of the word “commitment,” it commonly associates a person’s dedication. One has to have a word, stick to it, and follow through on it despite the hurdles and unexpected challenges. To promote employee engagement, it requires a whole commitment to ameliorate workers’s performance, which in time leads to a workplace culture centered on positivity. The authors of the article “How Companies Can Improve Employee Engagement Right Now”, published in the Harvard Business Review, created an “Employee Engagement Checklist,” which practitioners can reinforce in their organizations. They provided three main points to help boost employee engagement, which are: 1) Connect what employees do to what they care about; 2) Make the work itself less stressful and more enjoyable; and 3) Create time affluence. These lists of employee engagement merely emphasize the importance of listening and being open to the employee’s inquiries in establishing a solid engagement.

A culture of positivity lies in how strong people’s engagement is.

Making connections from the tiniest part of the organization to the most gigantic one is as relative as the person with the highest position in the company. The simplest activity of the smallest laborer can greatly affect the overall operations of the company, and it is significant to take note that culture is attributed to the collective sets of people’s behavior and practices. Hence, connecting each member of the organization with a different level of perspective will not only supply employees’ sense of versatility, but it will also develop a positive approach towards a higher goal.