How to Engage Your Team at Work

Hi! I am Erin Kopec, VP of Sales and Marketing at HireLevel. When thinking about employee engagement strategies where does your mind go? How can you possibly develop a program that will satisfy everyone? I want to share some ideas on how you can say goodbye to burnout and boring days in the office and hello to happy team members and increased productivity to support your business goals. 

Let me tell you, there is no blueprint for what will keep your employees engaged but if you want to retain team members, have a competitive advantage when recruiting, and ensure your workplace has the ‘work hard, play hard’ culture, you should consider a platform that helps you capitalize on all of this through rewards, recognition, and engagement. 

Let me speak from experience and tell you that in my professional career, I’ve seen it all… contests, surveys, goal dashboards, you name it. That’s a lot to track, analyze, and manually measure. How nice would it be to have one solution that could support these efforts and help you facilitate meaningful connections, and effective gamification through a single software? 

Key features of the software to highlight are pulse surveys to a specific individual or group, an interactive org chart to help employees understand the organization’s reporting structure, a lively feed wall to stay aligned across functions and locations while collaborating with colleagues, rewards and recognition tools that allow your team members to rack up points when they collaborate, share, and help one another. Goals and 360 performance reviews give employees opportunities to align with company goals and get peer feedback on their overall performance.

Why is employee engagement important? 

All of this can be integrated into one piece of software called Share and Perform. Some challenges that can be overcome by taking advantage of this are: 

• Energizing company culture 
• Increasing operational efficiency and compliance 
• Connecting virtual teams
• Attracting and retaining top talent 
• Supporting mergers and acquisitions 
• Managing rapid growth 

Let’s get to the real ideas that your team can get excited about. 

• Make time for fun – team lunches, team building, happy hour, company parties

• Employee contribution – value team member’s feedback
• Benefits and perks – gym membership, birthday PTO, Florida condo discounts… Oh My!
• Develop a strong company culture – define your mission and values, what is your why? 
• Celebrate birthdays and anniversaries – keep things sweet around the office with snacks and treats to celebrate milestones 

• Give back – provide PTO time to volunteer, support community involvement and charitable contributions through volunteering or a monthly monetary donation campaign to local charities, host a food drive with a local pantry 

• Let an engagement software do the dirty work on tracking, analytics, and administering fun gamification around the company 
• Clear is kind – honest and constructive feedback can go a long way when talking about engagement and what will keep your team happy at work
• Goal setting and vision boards – host an annual luncheon where team members can share their goals for the year and put together vision boards on how they will make them come to life 
• Themed office days – check out the national days and have fun with them. There is a national day for everyone’s favorite food or sporting event plus so much more. 

According to Gallup, the latest survey says that only 20% of U.S. employees are satisfied with their company as a place to work. As uncertainty continues it’s time to move past just managing your team and start growing and motivating them. 

Transform your employee experience with Share and Peform and improve culture and engagement in your organization. Encourage employees to track their performance and explore opportunities to engage and grow within the company.

Let’s talk about how to decrease turnover, boost employee engagement strategies, and achieve your business goals for the rest of 2023.

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