How to get employees aligned with your company’s vision

​Creating a vision for your company may be easy, but getting staff to align to it is not. Sometimes, even the best employees' struggle with this and may need guidance on how they can best align their vision to that of the company they work for.

Here is how to get your valued employees to align with your company vision:

1. Set clear company goals

Every company needs a list of clearly defined goals that employees can adhere to and align with their personal goals. This helps them prioritise their work and focus their efforts in the most valuable way. The clearer the goals are, the better!

2. Hire the right culture fit

Hiring employees who are a culture fit reduces your turnover as an organisation, improves job satisfaction and enhances the quality of work the employee delivers. Hire employees with the right skills and personality traits which are a fit for your organisational culture, not just those who fit within the box of the position you are filling.

3. Play to employee strengths

According to the "State of the American Workplace" report delivered by Gallup in February 2017. They found that building on employee strengths is much more effective than trying to improve their weaknesses - understand your employees' strengths so that you can align them with the company's goals.

4. Get top management to involved

In order for an employee to become aligned with their company's vision, they must hear it at all times. The vision should be discussed during the hiring process, incorporated in the on-boarding process, and then be consistently reinforced throughout the term of their employment. When this happens, employees tend to enjoy a greater sense of teamwork and may be less likely to leave the company.  Top management must be closely involved and consistently share and remind employees of company goals.