8 steps for improving employee engagement
Staff morale directly affects productivity. Training, culture fit, autonomy—and even free coffee—are key elements of how your people approach each workday and collaboration overall.
Americans log more than eight hours a day at work—more than we sleep each night.
That means that we spend more waking time interacting with our colleagues than with our families, so our co-workers are have significant sway over our mood and productivity.
That influence is a boon when teammates are optimistic and motivated, but when they’re in a lousy mood or unmotivated, it can be disruptive, even destructive, to the entire workforce.
You can counter negative vibes by doing the following eight things to boost productivity:
1. Improve cultural fit.
To start right, recruit people who align with your company’s culture.
Keith Tatley, founder of Manager Foundation, writes for RecruitLoop:
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