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8 steps for improving employee engagement
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Staff morale affects productivity
Training, culture fit, autonomy—and even free coffee—are key elements of how your people approach each workday and collaboration overall.
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Improve employee engagement
- Recruit people who align with your company’s culture.
- Clearly define new employees’ roles and responsibilities and provide appropriate training.
- Encourage autonomy.
- Optimize the workplace.
- Celebrate the small wins.
- Let employees work remotely.
- Offer great perks.
- Consistently measure employee activity and productivity.
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To promote autonomy in the workplace:
- Explain why the work your employees are doing is essential
- Give your team opportunities to share ideas and make decisions.
- Build trust among your employees
- Hold them accountable.
- Delegate effectively
- Provide frequent feedback
- Allow your employees to share their strengths and talents
- Give them the tools and resources needed to succeed
- Use mistakes as a learning opportunity
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To optimize the workplace:
- Provide ample lighting. Let in as much natural light as possible.
- Invest in standing desks and ergonomic chairs, and encourage everyone to tidy up their workplaces.
- Reduce noise: 70 decibels is an acceptable volume for carrying out necessary, transactional office-based work.
- Provide healthy snacks that boost brain power.
- Offer a restful space, an oasis for employees to meditate or exercise.
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Totally reliable members are like gold. Delivering work on time every time is priceless.
Not afraid of failure
A good team player is not fearful of failure.
Head hunters are now actively seeking out those employees who can clearly recount what went wrong with a project and what lessons they learned.
Share information
A good team member doesn't regard other team members with suspicion, envy or resentment.
They understand that sharing information is vital to efficient problem solving.
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Treating cheating as a reward
If someone treats themselves to a dress after a week of saving, this undermines the achievement they have made.
Try to view the act of you achieving your goals as...
Planning unnecessary meetings
Unnecessary meetings can severely deplete productivity out of someone’s working day.
Instead of arranging a meeting, see if you can speak with the person in another way. Skype, texting, emailing and phone calls are all efficient ways to communicate on important matters, while still focusing on your own projects.
Multitasking
Research has discovered that most people become less efficient while attempting to multitask.
Try concentrating on one task at a time for great, productive results.
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Asynchronous communication
There are mainly two ways to communicate within a company: synchronous and asynchronous communication. While the second type has always been widely practiced, as face-to-face meetings or any other ...
Real-time communication drawbacks
While real-time communication inside of a team might lead to solving faster some issues, it also has various disadvantages.
For instance, having your colleagues come to ask you questions to which you feel pressured to answer on the spot leads to you being continuously interrupted, which results in being less productive and feeling stressed or even getting a burnout, as you try to do everything in proper time.
The asynchronous workplace
When the employees are provided with control as to when they are willing to communicate with their co-workers, there are many advantages that emerge.
For instance, having the freedom to decide exactly how your working day should look like leads to more satisfied employees as well as to better communication within the team. Further benefits vary from feeling less stressed due to better planning to greater transparency and more efficient work.