Who wouldn’t want to have a great team and engaged employees in their company? But how do you achieve this? Focus on supporting effective communication, recognition, and contact between employees.
Employee engagement and teamwork are key factors influencing the stability of a company, as well as innovation and future development. Engaged employees are also more productive and bring higher profits to the company. These are compelling arguments for why you should work on engagement and teamwork in your company. We have tips for you on what to focus on in this case.
Internal communication should be clear and open
Employees need to know where the company is headed. Sharing company goals and strategies helps them understand their role and contribution. It is important to promote open and effective communication across the company. Use any tools you have at your disposal, whether traditional emails, newsletters, bulletin boards, or meetings. Be sure to incorporate modern HR applications, tools, and trends. For example, the Verso HR tool package includes online tools that employees enjoy using. Communication can be supported by features such as News for sharing updates, Polls for gauging opinions and moods, or Employee Suggestions, where employees can pass on any ideas or suggestions to management. It is important that employees feel that they are being listened to and that the company is interested in their opinions.
Awards, praise, and positive feedback
Recognition is another key to maintaining employee engagement and motivation, which you cannot do without. Do you regularly give your employees positive feedback and praise them? If not, fix it! The Praise module is a great way to do this, allowing supervisors to praise employees frequently and online, but employees can also praise and thank each other for great work. Praise is very motivating and is what we really crave as humans.
Relationships are strengthened when employees know each other
People spend an average of 8 hours a day at work. If colleagues have friendly relationships with each other, it increases employee satisfaction and reduces turnover. What can help? Try to “smuggle” gamification into your corporate culture, which are game principles that motivate participation in projects. Also, encourage any opportunity for natural contact between employees. Try the Carpool feature, which allows employees to drive to and from work together, or the Bazaar, where, in the spirit of the circular economy, employees offer items they have at home that are still functional but no longer used. This way, employees can find out who has small children, enjoys rollerblading, or is a passionate cyclist. Great friendships can develop based on shared interests and life situations.
Other ways to promote engagement and team spirit at work include flexibility, an individual approach, opportunities for career growth and corporate training, and much more.
