How to create a happy workplace culture?

 

State goals and make them visible

Give employees valuable vision of what great things can give the organization to the customers and how meaningful their work is. Care to remember them to value their own input in the organization. Maintain a clear understanding of what's truly important for your organization and how they can invest.

 

Respectful relationship and recognition

Encourage respectful relationships - between peers and employees and throughout all organization from owner to the last employee. Equality motivates people to perform better. Encourage team members to give praise to each other frequently no matter their level and position. For better collaboration remember employees to praise each other and find a way to work together on their tasks.

 

Create moments of happiness inside the organization 

Birthday pancakes, company Pizzadays after a good deal, some posters on the wall. Going out just to the nearest cafe. Funny t-shirts are also good. Implement the elements of positivity in work surrounding. Share stories about what has happened in the company.

 

 Treat fails as a point for improvement

Give attention to not criticizing and accentuate establishing new ways to make it better and prevent next time in case of mistakes. Fails need to be treated like points for improvement but not to make your employees feel totally bad and disappointed. Give them a strong will to improve. Show them an approach to finding ways to overcome instead of searching for who is guilty. This works perfectly in most successful organizations.

 

To recognize what is mostly needed for your company culture - run surveys 

Monitor weak points of your organization and run employee surveys at least twice a month. Use open questions about the weakest points to get the truth. For full anonymity and more honest answers than questioning them personally use a digital app. Teamnety app is FREE app and you can give it a try. After the survey, you will know what measure is better to undertake as a priority. Now running surveys in automatic digital mode gives incomparably wider possibilities than ever.

 

Don't forget well-being and prevent burnout. 

Encourage employees a bit to loosen the work after a project with hard deadlines or even take the weekend to refresh instead of constantly pressing them in a hard way task after task. In case of hard deadlines, it would be good to remember the pick and lows. And give time to refresh. Propose to rebalance the time in case of overworking.

 

Provide knowledge base and onboarding

Would be good for employees to have easy convenient access to their onboarding materials and materials for improvement. Create an environment where every employee fully understands his\her own possibilities for growth and what to do for it. 

 

Make company news accessible through the dedicated mobile app

To increase the feeling of inclusion use news and interesting industry hacks that can be useful for your team. And Teamnety app allows you to post direct news first-hand and choose visibility for each news easily by an employee. It is especially needed for hybrid teams. To bring back the feeling of inclusion and thus higher motivation.

 

Create an appropriate environment and tools 

Give them tools to be successful at your company not only require their work. The modern way to know what tools can be missing is to run a flow of surveys asking once in 2 months if tools are ok and what tools can be improved. Also create an open, not judging atmosphere for employees to be able to share their needs.

 

Create habits for professional growth

Run development together and share the experience inside the teams. Some organizations choose every month to read a book inside the department and then discuss it with the team and brainstorm what can be implemented from the book. Also, try workations - special events when team members collectively gather in some beautiful places and half day work and half day relax. Organize seminars and webinars for employees. Undertake months or weeks dedicated to some improvement. But remember about one thing at a time principle.

 

Follow social initiatives together with a team

If together you will support some social projects, even will go some weekend to plant some trees or will collect things for donation. Or maybe share your services on a free basis for those who need them the most but can’t afford them. That will make employees understand they invest their time in the organization that is worth it. 

 

Always questionnaire employees who quit 

It is one of the best ways to discover what can be improved for a better culture. The easiest is to run a survey through the app and notificate your workers to give feedback. Use the app so they can understand it is fully anonymous. Employees will surely tell more than could tell personally to HR when leaving.