Understanding how to boost employee engagement can open the door to increased productivity at work. But it can be a challenge to create teamwork and a positive employee culture as your businesses grows. Suddenly, strangers work next to strangers and you can lose team spirit.
What if you could use your existing leadership or staff meetings to grow your business culture and boost employee engagement.
In this episode of our Everyday Productivity video series, you’ll learn how a modest investment of time can change your business.
What Productivity Questions Does This Video Answer?
- How to boost employee engagement at work?
- How to improve your staff meetings?
- How to improve teamwork at work?
- How can employees get to know more about each other?
Video Transcript of How to Boost Employee Engagement
It’s hard to build teamwork if you feel like you’re working with a bunch of strangers. Sometimes as an organization grows, you start to realize that you don’t know everyone who you’re walking past every day.
This could affect teamwork because it’s good to know what other people do on the job and sometimes it helps to know a little bit about them. But you’re busy and you just never have time to do it and the company keeps growing.
And maybe you start to make assumptions about those people in that department that you don’t really interact with too much. Would it be better if people could know their coworkers? Would that maybe improved teamwork?
I think it can’t and here’s my suggestion for a way that you could do with it doesn’t take a lot of time. It doesn’t involve an expensive retreat or hanging off the side of a mountain.
Most organizations have their executive team meetings. It could happen weekly biweekly. During that time, each person in the room has roughly sixty to ninety seconds, it’s not a big presentation, to talk about something interesting that’s happening in their department.
This could almost be like a, did you know, because people may not know what you do. Then, you’re gonna highlight a member of your team. Say something about them that’s interesting.
Maybe they’ve been with the company for a certain amount of years, just had an anniversary. Maybe they have a cool hobby. Get that information out.
Then everyone who’s in that meeting, later will pass on what they learned in the meeting to their teams. The idea is you build that work culture, so you’re not walking by a stranger anymore.
And when you need help from that person, you kind of know them a little bit. It’s a simple way to build a work culture. Give it a try. Get to know that stranger.
About This Video Series
Ken Okel’s ongoing Everyday Productivity video series will make you more effective on the job. Every week, you’ll learn a new, easy to understand tip that you can use right away.
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About Ken Okel
As a motivational speaker, Ken Okel works with leaders and organizations to boost productivity, performance, and profits. At conferences, conventions, and company meetings, he engages audiences with new ways to maximize their time at work. To see a sample of his keynote and workshop presentations, visit his video page.
