It’s not always easy to stay motivated. Gym memberships get forgotten and books are left unread. This can also be said for employee motivation at work. Low productivity can creep into your work force, causing staff retention to drop, quality of work to falter and targets missed.
One way to improve presenteeism is creating a productive work environment in your office. Office culture’s reputation hasn’t recovered since the pandemic, but there are ways to make sure your office is a welcoming and positive place for your employees to spend their work hours. There are simple acts that you can implement; open door policies, social events and encouraging screen breaks are effective. But to really improve office motivation, implementing a well rounded employee benefits scheme can boost morale and keep your office happy.
Providing an EAP, Employee Assistance Programme, can really help your team reach their potential. Career Counselling & Life Coaching available through My Staff Shop’s EAP provider, Spectrum can help employees set goals, develop and train skills so that they can progress and balance their work and life balance. Encouraging employees to grow their expertise will help keep highly skilled members of staff within the business, and promote hard work and loyalty to your team.
Rewarding your employees for long service, hard work and going the extra mile shows your team that you genuinely care about them as individuals, and that you are proud of the work they produce, and their dedication to the business. For many people, they find the praise they receive from management as inauthentic. Providing reward and recognition through My Staff Shop will help to reinforce genuine appreciation amongst colleagues. Reward Beans gifted to employees can be used on any of the gift cards and e-tickets available on My Staff Shop, making their award more meaningful and specific to their needs and shopping habits.
Peer to Peer recognition can also improve the spirits around your office. Inviting your employees to pay attention to the hard work their colleagues are doing, helps to strengthen work place relationships and foster supportive and helpful behaviour amongst team members. My Staff Shop’s fan mail option displays all the positive messages employees share about each other, which is great for management to get a picture of how the team is working together.
Keeping up your employee’s momentum can be tricky. But providing benefits which nurture and support your team will help minimise the slumps & increase efficiency and most importantly, supply your team with the means to improve their performance & feel proud of their achievements!
To find out more about what you can do for your employees, request a demo with one of our sales team.
