It's really easy to run or work for a company where people come to work, satisfy their responsibilities and go home. Managing a team and building up morale is a whole other can of worms that requires actually investing in your staff and looking to them to help build your brand. They say that a team is only as strong as its weakest member and that a company is the people who make it up. Is it not then worth it to consider your staff, hone their individual skill sets and be the best company you can be? How can this be done, you ask? Here are a few suggestions: 1. Weekly Highs and Lows: A lot of companies, especially small ones, like to end their weeks with an internal highs and lows session. That means gathering your staff around 4p.m. on Friday to discuss what they felt went well that week and where they think they could have improved. Other issues that might come up include, how they could use the help or skills of other team members to solve a problem they're having or other ideas they might have to help grow the company or improve an existing product or service. One of the big advantages of highs and lows is that in addition to management understanding what's working within their organisation, employees will also feel like they're being heard. 2. Employee Assessment activities: Another way to increase morale and improve work ethic is to hire an expert to come into your office and conduct employee assessment activities with your staff. These might involve employees ranking themselves as well as their co-workers. These exercises are as much about learning each other's strengths and weaknesses as they are about opening up the channels of communication between staff members. Similar to above, by organising these kind of activities employees will feel like their managers really do care about them as people and want to benefit as much as possible from their skills. 3. Team days out: Of course another, very obvious way to build up morale is to have a little celebration. This might be a secret santa gift exchange at your company Christmas lunch, it might mean a group charity activity. It could be participating in a weekly football pick-up game or treating your team to a hot air balloon ride. Every person likes to be told that they're doing something well, that their work is valued and that they are appreciated both as a person and an employee so treating your staff to something special and celebratory is really a great thing to do. Taking the time out to learn about your employees, listen to their ideas and reward them when it's deserved will result in harder work getting done and a better office environment overall.
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