If you run a business, you need to be sure that you are doing whatever you can to look after your employees. How they feel about their work informs the way they behave, the amount of effort they put into their work, and how much love is in it.
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All of this, in turn, affects the way the customer is treated, the quality of the product, the effectiveness of the marketing, and much more besides.
Clearly, we can consider morale to be a kind of vital resource for your business, and it is one which you need to ensure there is always plenty of. So how do you make sure this resource stays topped up?
Focus On Health & Wellbeing
The more salubrious your workplace is to work in, the better people will feel about working there.
This means that you need to put a lot of effort into ensuring that the office is kept clean, tidy and that all health and safety rules are strictly adhered to.
If you think about all the workplaces you yourself have been in, you will remember that you often get a good sense of how safe it is straight away upon entering. If you want colleagues to feel good the moment they step in the door, you need to focus on having a regular office cleaning schedule, clear rules about tidiness, and a focus on safety. It really does boost morale hugely.
More Than A Job
One of the quickest ways for someone to lose interest in their work is by feeling as though it is pointless, or that they are wasting their time.
This feeling of being in a dead-end job is something nobody wants, but the good news is that it can easily be avoided, so long as you focus on helping your employees to see the value in their own work. If you have employees who are struggling to do this, you might need to find some creative way to bring fresh life into the role for them.
Perhaps consider giving them some more responsibility, or even just changing up the routine of their day for a while. Whatever it is you can do, try to help them see their work as more than just a job.
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Transparency & Clarity
Dishonesty or a lack of clarity between you and your colleagues is rarely good for anyone’s morale. Your employees need to feel that they can trust you, and the best way to consistently breed this trust is to focus on acting and speaking in a transparent manner, and ensuring that you are always clear about what it is that you expect from them, and what you hope to achieve.
With this kind of fresh approach to communication, your office morale is likely to remain sustainably high, and you can expect to see some great results fairly quickly.
By thinking of morale as a resource which needs boosting, you can help your colleagues to get more out of their work – while you also get much more out of them.
