Hiring and maintaining employees who are thoroughly engaged in their work and demonstrate a true commitment to see your company's mission accomplished is one of the best investments your company can make. Good employees will have a more direct and significant impact on your bottom line than almost any other single area you can spend money on.
It may be easy to find good employees yet you still need to ensure that they are happy and focused in order for them to stay with your on a long term. Below are five activities you may use which can effectively yield positive results when it comes to your most valuable resource.
1. Celebrate Successes
People need positive feedback. While it costs the company nothing, one highly effective motivator is for you to simply recognize the hard work of an employee. This in fact can even outdo any monetary rewards you give your employees as a way of motivating them.
Although a personal pat on the back is fitting, recognition could take results further especially when others know of it. Perhaps you can make recognition more public through announcements, award-giving, or maybe mentioning names along with accomplishments if the company has a publication or a website. For the consistently top-performing workers, maybe a promotion or additional responsibilities would be warranted.
2. Encourage Open Communication
To be fully engaged in their jobs, employees need to feel free to express their views on subjects that affect their work, and they need to feel that what they say is actually being heard. Open communications is one of the simplest steps you can take to keep employees actively engaged as a part of the company. This isn't limited to traditional HR areas such as working conditions, benefits, or dress code. Long-term business strategy is always on the minds of employees who really want to make a difference, and their unique perspective of working on the front lines can provide them with valuable insights that senior managers might miss.
Perhaps you can offer employees multiple means to be more aware about the company and how they can find opportunities for feedback and suggestions to be heard and accommodated in its truest sense. It would be great if there is a company newsletter or a regularly updated intranet and maybe even a "Letter from the CEO" each month where employee questions can be addressed by top-level officers.
3. Offer Real-Time Progress Reports
Be sure you are able to convey the goal of the company and that employees are well informed on their contribution in realizing those goals.
How employees fare in the company should not be conveyed merely through the annual performance review. Companies leading in any industry are able to offer employees continuous feedback for the sake of making them realize their strengths and weaknesses.
While C-level executives are often privy to reams of big data about the company, employees are always interested in how their individual efforts are affecting the organization's progress. If you want your employees to be thoroughly engaged in the success of the company, consider them among the group that "needs to know" all the high-level information executives use to keep their fingers on the pulse of the business.
4. Choose A Cause & Do Some Good
There are those who have discovered that one of the most effective employee engagement activities in existence exists in the form of a corporate philanthropy program. A program that calls for an employee volunteering initiative helps with team building, skill development and leadership. You can create positivity through good deeds.
To accomplish the most good on both fronts, have employees participate in choosing some causes that are important to them, then provide them with as many opportunities as possible to give monetarily and through volunteering. Keep everyone apprised of how the charitable efforts are succeeding just as if they were another corporate business initiative, and be sure to celebrate success.
5. Make Fun A Two-Way Thing
You can't always just push your employees to be the most productive and efficient they possibly can without thinking of their need to also rest, relax and become well-balanced individuals. Make sure that you also give them time to have some fun.
Even the most engaged and effective employees will burn out if pushed too hard, so it is essential to make having fun a part of the overall culture they're supporting. Use holidays, corporate milestones, or even just random events as opportunities for employees to let their hair down for a while and just enjoy each other's company in way that isn't focused on business.
It may be easy to find good employees yet you still need to ensure that they are happy and focused in order for them to stay with your on a long term. Below are five activities you may use which can effectively yield positive results when it comes to your most valuable resource.
1. Celebrate Successes
People need positive feedback. While it costs the company nothing, one highly effective motivator is for you to simply recognize the hard work of an employee. This in fact can even outdo any monetary rewards you give your employees as a way of motivating them.
Although a personal pat on the back is fitting, recognition could take results further especially when others know of it. Perhaps you can make recognition more public through announcements, award-giving, or maybe mentioning names along with accomplishments if the company has a publication or a website. For the consistently top-performing workers, maybe a promotion or additional responsibilities would be warranted.
2. Encourage Open Communication
To be fully engaged in their jobs, employees need to feel free to express their views on subjects that affect their work, and they need to feel that what they say is actually being heard. Open communications is one of the simplest steps you can take to keep employees actively engaged as a part of the company. This isn't limited to traditional HR areas such as working conditions, benefits, or dress code. Long-term business strategy is always on the minds of employees who really want to make a difference, and their unique perspective of working on the front lines can provide them with valuable insights that senior managers might miss.
Perhaps you can offer employees multiple means to be more aware about the company and how they can find opportunities for feedback and suggestions to be heard and accommodated in its truest sense. It would be great if there is a company newsletter or a regularly updated intranet and maybe even a "Letter from the CEO" each month where employee questions can be addressed by top-level officers.
3. Offer Real-Time Progress Reports
Be sure you are able to convey the goal of the company and that employees are well informed on their contribution in realizing those goals.
How employees fare in the company should not be conveyed merely through the annual performance review. Companies leading in any industry are able to offer employees continuous feedback for the sake of making them realize their strengths and weaknesses.
While C-level executives are often privy to reams of big data about the company, employees are always interested in how their individual efforts are affecting the organization's progress. If you want your employees to be thoroughly engaged in the success of the company, consider them among the group that "needs to know" all the high-level information executives use to keep their fingers on the pulse of the business.
4. Choose A Cause & Do Some Good
There are those who have discovered that one of the most effective employee engagement activities in existence exists in the form of a corporate philanthropy program. A program that calls for an employee volunteering initiative helps with team building, skill development and leadership. You can create positivity through good deeds.
To accomplish the most good on both fronts, have employees participate in choosing some causes that are important to them, then provide them with as many opportunities as possible to give monetarily and through volunteering. Keep everyone apprised of how the charitable efforts are succeeding just as if they were another corporate business initiative, and be sure to celebrate success.
5. Make Fun A Two-Way Thing
You can't always just push your employees to be the most productive and efficient they possibly can without thinking of their need to also rest, relax and become well-balanced individuals. Make sure that you also give them time to have some fun.
Even the most engaged and effective employees will burn out if pushed too hard, so it is essential to make having fun a part of the overall culture they're supporting. Use holidays, corporate milestones, or even just random events as opportunities for employees to let their hair down for a while and just enjoy each other's company in way that isn't focused on business.
About the Author:
Sebastian Troup loves blogging about philanthropic solutions for businesses and non profit organizations. For further information about setting up workplace giving campaigns, or to find some employee giving campaign ideas, please go to the Truist.com website today.
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