Which employee engagement initiatives have you enjoyed being a part of?
Qudsia Ali
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Making an effort to make employees feel valued and respected, as well as hearing and understanding their views.
@alex_gleen I agree with your opinion
@qudsia_ali appreciated
Given its evident links to job satisfaction and employee morale, employee engagement can be important to a company's success. Employee engagement is built and maintained through effective communication.
@peter_agar I admire your ideas on effective communication.
@qudsia_ali So kind of you
I do like an open-book management style in which all the employees can take part in the decision-making process (to some extent).
@zeeshan121 It is actually a nice suggestion.
Celebrating achievements and talking about improvements during Retrospectives
As a huge sports lover, definitely company sports days or participating in charity tournaments, nothing trumps good sportsmanship and teamwork!
Generally having an open-minded and encouraging environment that shapes the right culture in the company. Everyone is open to constructive feedback and sharing different opinions is supported.
@marina_djuric Your observations and thoughts are pretty similar to mine. I am a huge supporter of small recreational sports activities available on the office premises so that employees can take small breaks from their work to have some fun relaxing time.
This is a really small thing, but at the end of each week, we wrap up with a quick 15 min session called "GLUTE", which stands for good, learnt, ugly, thankful, excited. We take 2 mins to think about what was good/a new learning/bad/thankful about the week just been, and what we're excited about in the coming week or weekend, and then share. I always found it really nice to a) hear how others found the week from their perspective (we're all remote), and b) what's going on in their lives outside of work.
@jenny_sahng That is an outstanding practice since all of your team works remotely. Thanks, Jenny, for sharing.
Regularly scheduled coffee meetups via video call. It's gave us a space to get to know each other on a personal basis and we knew it was there each week even if we couldn't make it some weeks.
Since we are a startup and have no budget, we get together once a month to share stories about each other (our team is huge, 30+ people) and all volunteering, and so far, we have been able to keep everyone on our team for over a year. We believe in building an extremely diverse team, and celebrate everyones cultures and holidays in someway.
For our team in NYC, we ended up going on a rooftop and celebrate holi! There is one less uglier tar rooftop in NY hahaha
At a previous workplace we had 1 day a quarter where the whole office would give back to the community. The best example was where we built a kids play-gym for a women's refuge (i.e., de-weeded the gardens, built/ painted the woods, put together a basketball hoop etc.)
It was amazing to see the kids glee and was just a super good way to connect and get to know the team in a non-confrontational way.
Off-site meetings and activities.
At my workplace, we use AnnounceBot (https://announcebot.in/) in Microsoft Teams to welcome new team members and wish them on their birthdays, anniversaries, and special occasions.