Employee engagement is a very intentional step that companies take to retain most of their employees without having to hire every year. Keeping the employees engaged is a major challenge most companies face. If employee engagement goes right leads to higher sales, fewer mistakes, and a happy workforce. It also improves productivity, customer satisfaction, profitability and innovation from a stimulated staff.
Engagement activities that employees enjoy include:
- Encourage creative ways to share out knowledge
- Allow your employees to get involved in business planning process
- Open up a knowledge sharing platform
- Encourage and open up learning opportunities for all
- Show them the company's financial statement
- Indulge them in some office fun like sports
- Create awareness and enthusiasm for upcoming opportunities
- Set a hack night and invite everyone
- Allow the employees to create their onboarding practice
- Turn onboarding into a fun activity
- Produce an internal magazine and allow everyone to contribute
- Let your employees get involved in charity
- Assign company values
- Encourage brainstorming together
- Let the teams create their set of values
- Create office themed days allowing ideas to flow from the employees
- Assign a mentor to newbies
- Play the happiness at work card game
- Take group photos whether in the office or out of office
- Encourage your employees to volunteer in organizations they support
- Raise their salaries
- Appreciate and encourage innovation
- Emphasize on your company's stand – the values and missions
- Celebrate people during their crucial moments
- Celebrate achievements whether big or small
- Learn how to give and receive feedback
- Ask the employees to help come up with new engagement ideas
- Empower your employees
- Respect all your employees
- Encourage employees to develop a learning mentality
- Get social with your employees
- Get an expert to assist your company in employee engagement
- Ensure resources are available for what needs to be done
- Strive to build long-term engagement
- Allow feedback from your employees
- Encourage your employees to try and try again
- Hold brainstorming sessions to give a voice to the employees
- Take time to share happy times with the employees
- Focus on employee interests
- Prepare mentorship programs for newbies
- Get your employees out to breathe fresh air
- Communicate plans to keep everyone updated
- Do not overload your employees
- Take note of what work and what doesn't
- Be patient with your employees
- Break monotony in schedules to eliminate stress
- Refresh the workflow asking employees to share their ideas
- Offer healthy options to your employees
- Introduce a health and wealth program for your employees
- Feed, your employees with inside information, to avoid rumors
- Insist of work-life balance for all employees