Disengagement is a symptom

Have you had a meeting where everyone sat silently? Or just a majority never spoke. While silence in itself is not just disengagement, it may be one of the symptoms. However disengagement is just a symptom too.

I believe people are inherently interested in something, excited for a passion, and want to do good socially, personally and professionally. When someone becomes disengaged, probably it originates from a good reason. I believe you can look for signs and fix the underlying causes:

• Culture: if ideas are shut down too early, incentives are not aligned for creativity and results, missing encouragement to speak up or always contradicted, the question or problem worded in a closed manner, like it already accepts one solution. You can always keep your own intent in check. Bring your best intent to every scenario.
• Learned: I think this is part of culture, still want to emphasize it on its own, disengagement can be learned over repeated tries and fails and if it creates mental dissonance, it may lead to burn-out. Listen, involve and improve are keywords here.
• Stakes: whatever the outcome, the person may not be affected at all, or they just don’t have buy-in at all, in this case finding a motivation that resonates with the person will help.
• Personal: problems we face in our life may take away our focus, leading to drop in professional engagement, remember to always support your team members going through rough times.
• Challenge: I think of the intensity of the challenge, repeated low challenges may result in boredom, while for others it is the nirvana, always changing environment or requirements may energize some, may turn off others, putting way too much on someones plate may lead to them tuning off everything, and how prolonged high-stress challenges are matter too.
• Here the key is balance, high challenge periods need to be followed with low challenge, breathing room periods.

Understanding is the first step to create better. If you can name it, describe it, your understanding of it evolved at least one step further.

Have I missed a key element from these dimensions?