The Top 10 Threats to Employee Engagement and Overall Satisfaction

1 | SlideSalad | Date 2018
10 THREATS TO EMPLOYEE
ENGAGEMENT AND OVERALL
SATISFACTION

K2 DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS, INC.
WHO WE
ARE
K2 Development Systems, Inc. exists to eradicate small business
failure by educating, empowering, and equipping business owners,
entrepreneurs, and marketplace leaders with strategies, systems,
and structure guaranteed to increase employee engagement,
improve organizational satisfaction, and reduce turnover.

MEET OUR TEAM
Dr. Stephen Kalaluhi
President & Co-Founder
Christopher Diem
Co-Founder | Trainer
Manuel Najera
Master Coach
Manuel Najera is a Master Coach with 15+
years experience as a DDI-Certified SME
Master Trainer. Manuel specializes in
delivering world-class training is a way that
creates immediate transformation and
impact.
Christopher Diem holds an MA in
Organizational Leadership and is PMP
Certified. A 20+ year CWO3, Chris has
mastered the ability to breakdown complex
constructs into bite-sized, digestible bits for
any and all learners.
Dr. Stephen Kalaluhi is a Ph.D. in
Organizational Leadership and holds an
MBA with an emphasis in Leadership
Studies. He is highly skilled at creating
unique solutions that address a client’s
greatest challenges.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ONE
THING:
BUILDING A CULTURE OF ENGAGEMENT
AND OVERALL SATISFACTION
Anything that threatens employee engagement, organizational
satisfaction, and turnover within your company must be dealt with
immediately. Most leaders, however, either don’t recognize the internal
factors acting against their culture of growth, or don’t know how to
address them once they are identified. Regardless, not taking action is
unacceptable.
Our research found ten key drivers responsible for the creating a culture
of engagement and satisfaction within an organization. We cover each of
them here, and explain the cost associated with doing nothing.

INEFFECTIVE
DECISION
MAKING
01
BROKEN LINES
OF
COMMUNICATION
02
CULTURE OF
UNDERPERFORMER
S
03
NONEXISTENT
TRUST
04
INABILITY TO
DELEGATE
05
INDUSTRY-WIDE THREATS TO
INCREASING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

UNRESOLVED
CONFLICT
06
UNINSPIRED
WORKFORCE
07
WEAK TEAM
CULTURE
08
LACK OF
ACCOUNTABILIT
Y
09
INSECURE
LEADERS
10
INDUSTRY-WIDE THREATS TO
INCREASING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

INEFFECTIVE
DECISION-
MAKING
Leaders who are fearful of making decisions are threats to
your success. Not only do they become dependent upon your
approval, they become impotent in their organizational roles.
Their fear creates an unhealthy reliance on you for even the
most mundane operating decisions.
PRODUCTIVITY COST
Waiting for your approval bogs down the process
and lowers the productivity of those downstream.
EFFICIENCY COST
Time is wasted throughout a process when leaders
are incapable of making decisions.
PROFITABILITY COST
An inability to make decisions eats away at your
productivity, and creates unnecessary time wasted.

BROKEN LINES
OF
COMMUNICATIO
NNothing threatens your success more than broken
communication. You make company impacting decisions
daily, and you expect those decisions to be implemented and
acted upon. There is no quicker path to a broken organization
than through broken communication.
PRODUCTIVITY COST
An inability to communicate stops all action items
from being implemented, and creates undue stress.
EFFICIENCY COST
Having to repeat yourself daily produces unnecessary
waste across all levels of your company.
PROFITABILITY COST
The costs here are subtle, but can be found in the
form of missed opportunities and a lack of trust.

CULTURE OF
UNDERPERFORME
RS
When it comes to culture, what you ignore becomes the
accepted norm. Failing to address a culture of
underperformers creates a subpar standard that ultimately
produces an environment where doing just enough to get by
rules the day.
PRODUCTIVITY COST
Little, if any, additional effort exerted reduces your
ability to exceed goals.
EFFICIENCY COST
Your teams learn how to do just enough to get by;
Do what it takes to not get fired.
PROFITABILITY COST
No business can survive within a culture of
underperformers; Profits are non-existent.

NONEXISTENT
TRUST
Perhaps the most impactful driver affecting your organization,
a lack of trust has disastrous effects on your organization’s
profitability. Whether you don’t trust them, or they don’t trust
you, staying profitable is nearly impossible when your teams
don’t operate in trust.
PRODUCTIVITY COST
Constant questioning, unnecessary chipping of teeth,
and misunderstandings decrease productivity.
EFFICIENCY COST
Teams are constantly wasting time protecting
themselves from what may or may not happen.
PROFITABILITY COST
Without trust, your every action and word is
dissected for ulterior motives slowing the process.

INABILITY TO
DELEGATE
As good as you are, if you’re the only one you trust to do
something, your company will fail. As good as your team is, if
they don’t trust others to get work done, your company will
fail. An inability to delegate handicaps your profitability and
limits growth to just your ability to get work done.
PRODUCTIVITY COST
Limited to just you, or just your team. Productivity
suffers due to unnecessary bottlenecks.
EFFICIENCY COST
Teams sitting idle waiting for you to do what needs
to be done. Paying teams to twiddle their thumbs.
PROFITABILITY COST
Reduced exponentially due to opportunity costs
associated with not spreading out work.

UNRESOLVED
CONFLICT
Unresolved conflict, if left to fester and grow, will eventually
blow up in your face. This typically occurs at the least
opportune time, and usually destroys an organization from the
inside out. Frustration, stress, and overwhelm are the norm
when conflict is left unresolved.
PRODUCTIVITY COST
You don’t want to work with your team, and your
team doesn’t want to work with you.
EFFICIENCY COST
Team members going out of their way to avoid
speaking or working with you and each other.
PROFITABILITY COST
Limited by an inability to overcome differences;
pettiness creates a culture of fear.

UNINSPIRED
WORKFORCE
An unengaged workforce will slowly eat away at your
organization’s profits. When uninspired and unmotivated, your
team not only comes to work not caring, they have no
ownership and could not care less about the results they
produce or the outcome of their effort.
PRODUCTIVITY COST
There is no desire or willingness to go above or
beyond; Teams do as little as possible to get by.
EFFICIENCY COST
Creates a culture of waste. Wasted time, wasted
effort, wasted potential.
PROFITABILITY COST
Will eventually lead to you shuttering your doors.
Cannot survive with an uninspired workforce.

WEAK TEAM
CULTURE
With no organizational culture established, teams are left to
fend for themselves, making up their own rules along the way.
No standardization or expectations creates an environment
where every one is out only for themselves. A lack of purpose
scatters team members.
PRODUCTIVITY COST
Never fully tapped into due to a lack of established
guidelines and organizational expectations.
EFFICIENCY COST
Time wasted trying to determine what is and is not
accepted or expected from team members.
PROFITABILITY COST
Without a true game plan to follow, profits suffer as
teams struggle to make up and learn the rules.

LACK OF
ACCOUNTABILITY
With no accountability within your organization, there is no
ownership or responsibility taken for shortcomings, errors, or
missed goals. Passing the buck, blaming others, and pointing
out the flaws of team members is the norm. Team members
focus on protecting themselves, rather than on profits.
PRODUCTIVITY COST
A lack of ownership prevents problems and issues
from being resolved in a timely manner.
EFFICIENCY COST
Time is wasted trying to determine whom to blame,
rather than on fixing the problem at hand.
PROFITABILITY COST
Team members who don’t own a process don’t care
if it succeeds or fails.

INSECURE
LEADERS
Insecure leaders are the most dangerous internal threats to
your organization’s profitability. Their own shortcomings will
thwart any progress or growth you create. Their insecurities
will manifest in how they interact with their subordinates.
Momentum will be stopped due to their limitations.
PRODUCTIVITY COST
Fear will prevent insecure leaders from taking
calculated risks; no growth, no momentum created.
EFFICIENCY COST
Constant need to reassure insecure leaders slows
down your processes.
PROFITABILITY COST
Effects the overall growth of your organization;
cannot grow if your leaders aren’t willing to grow.

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO INCREASE
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND OVERALL
SATISFACTION?
ENHANCE SKILL SETS
Building a culture of increase is the direct result of you
and your team mastering the skills necessary to succeed
in business.
STRENGTHEN MINDSETS
Mastering the skills needed to build a great
organizational culture is worthless without conquering
limiting belief systems.
IMPROVE BEHAVIORS
To get the results you desire, the behaviors that create
those results must become your driving force.
In short, there is a direct correlation between how strong your organizational culture is, and how strong your leaders
are. Leaders who master the skill sets, mindsets, and behaviors necessary to build a successful organization will
undoubtedly produce the engagement and satisfaction you fight so hard to create and protect.

HOW WE HELP YOU
We train your executive leadership
team, senior leadership team,
managers, supervisors, team
leads, and high potential leaders.
We bring our proven and time-
tested Professional Growth and
Leadership Development
programs and materials to you.
We train and equip your leaders to
increase engagement in as little as
two days. We work with your
schedule to ensure it works for you.
ALL LEVELS ULTRA-
CONVENIENT
FLEXIBLE
SCHEDULING

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