Employee Engagement Activities

Employee engagement is an organizational effort that requires a long-term vision in a business strategy context, if it is to improve productivity and retention rates. Identifying the company needs and developing the right strategy is the key and only then can focus on how to measure employee engagement and what activities to implement.

There is conclusive evidence that when employee engagement is improved, it can significantly improve the overall organisational performance across many areas including the productivity, profitability, customer satisfaction, well being, health & safety.

Employee engagement is a mind-set . Organizations involved in regular employee engagement activities or practices produce more efficient and effective and happy employees. It actually helps in creating conditions or adapting different workplace methods to motivate employees of the organization to achieve their goals set by the organization in lieu with the organization’s culture to help achieve their highest potential. Corporates adapt employee engagement techniques according to their suitability and bandwidth.

We can actually derive the point that the more employees are happy and engaged the productivity automatically increases. Adequate planning should be done for each activity while planning employee engagement for better effectivity and outcomes for building a better employee employer relationship.
Sometimes Companies start the employee engagement activities but cannot reach the desired output because of lack of planning. So if we clearly derive the above table contents we can very well understand that all the four activities need to be done simultaneously to achieve the happiness productivity perfect ration in employees which will result in high retention of employees in the organization.

In-house Activities

    • Encouraging a healthy and happy lifestyle with work-life balance
    • Offer flexible work timings if possible
    • Clicking team pictures
    • Family day
    • Office Breakfast/Lunch
    • Celebrate your own organization’s day
    • Have casual Fridays or Saturdays at work
    • Help employees know each other
    • Internal social networking site for the employees
    • Internal newsletter
    • Game room
    • Bring in an Inspirational personality
    • Renovate the work place
    • Giving surprise weekly offs to the employees
    • Create a buzz about upcoming opportunities
    • Encourage employees to take vacations
    • Have employees write on your company website

OFFSITE ACTIVITIES

    • Office picnics
    • Organizing Talent hunts show
    • Sports competitions
    • Organize annual parties

REWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

    • Welcome ceremony for new recruits in style
    • Employee of the month Award
    • Celebrate employees work anniversary
    • Celebrating employee’s personal achievements
    • Create an effective leadership program
    • Include staff in business planning
    • Encouraging innovation
    • Start a meeting with appreciating a new employee every time
    • Internal promotions
    • Employee Rewards
    • Try to give your employees higher salaries as compared to your competitors

FEEDBACK SESSIONS AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT

    • Have team meetings by different employees
    • Involve your current employee in hiring new talent
    • Buddy training
    • Encourage brainstorming sessions
    • Employees should be given ample opportunities to voice their opinions
    • Feedback session from your employees
    • Periodic group meetings
    • Welcome diversity
    • Introduce inter-department trainings
    • Help employees achieve their career goals
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