Proven Strategies for Boosting Employee Morale and Productivity

In today’s competitive employment field, employees are always on the lookout for the next best thing. As a business leader, incorporating proven tactics to boost employee morale and productivity is essential to keeping them satisfied in their role in the company and happy enough to stay.

Education Opportunities

One way to increase your employee’s morale and improve productivity both individually and as a group is to give your people opportunities to grow. This should include a variety of ways to increase knowledge that will benefit them interpersonally and professionally in the workplace.

Help increase your team’s potential by offering them a variety of paths to greater knowledge. Start by organising conferences through Catalyst Events to ensure you have a great venue. Create a conference schedule that includes a guest speaker with inspirational insight into workplace productivity and employee relationship dynamics to help improve employee cooperation and collaboration. Include breakout workshops for your team to learn more about topics, such as how to implement new guidelines in their current role or how to utilise a new program to their advantage.

Other ways to offer your employees education opportunities should include pathways to work certifications that will benefit the company. Advanced degree work and other training should be supported by the management, as well. When employees feel valued and supported by their employers in their continuing education goals they tend to feel a sense of appreciation and are more invested in the company. This helps increase employee morale and productivity while reducing turnover. It is a win for everyone.

Flexible Work Arrangements

Whether the company has a policy of in-person work or a hybrid or remote option, one thing is clear – many employees want flexible work arrangements for a host of reasons. Regardless of the motivations, if your business allows for a versatile work model, it is something to take seriously. Today’s workers have experienced remote work, and many appreciate the option. If possible, designate certain days of the week when everyone comes into the office for an eyes-on day of collaborative work. Other days may be as needed or assigned as purely remote work with virtual meetings and messaging interspersed.

Another way to offer an adaptive work setting is to create a shortened workweek. Since employees know they have less time to complete the same amount of work, they will inevitably work harder to get it done and earn the reward of less time at work. This mindset is summed up in the tenets of Parkinson’s Law, which means that people tend to fill allotted work time with a project instead of finishing it early. If the time is shortened, they will finish it within that time frame.

Watch this video to learn how successful people manage their time more efficiently through the lens of Parkinson’s Law:

Increase employee morale and efficiency through tactics and strategies that work, such as creative work arrangements. Give them time together away from the office and looming deadlines to connect and learn about one another on a personal level. These moments of levity bring people together and foster a greater sense of teamwork and productivity, which is good for business.

This is a contributed post.