The Pyramid of Engagement 🏔️
The 12 fundamental needs of everyone in your team, and how you can support them.
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As an Engineer with an individual contributor role, chances are your job is quite clear. You may work on a product, write new features, maintain existing ones, and overall advance the tech assets of the company.
When you step into a management role such things change, because—as they say—your product becomes the team.
Your job becomes to make sure your teammates are successful at what they do. And for that, you want them to be engaged.
Engagement
Engagement is an all-encompassing metric that has risen in popularity in the last decade.
It refers to the feeling when you are not just happy of your work — you actually get a sense of belonging and fulfilment from it.
Engaged employees are happier and more productive. But what makes them engaged in the first place?