Top employers understand that compensation and benefits are an important part of an employee’s satisfaction, but there are other non-financial factors that become equally important to your employees. Below are 10 Employee Motivator suggestions to get you started.
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1. Redecorate Break Rooms or provide Quiet Rooms
The work environment is an important factor for all employees. Is it their environment or yours? Often simple changes or additions to a room or its features can make a significant difference to your employees. Redecorating a break room or instituting a “quiet room” to allow for better unwinding from their job helps them to feel more energized after a break and valued.
2. Sponsor a Ride-sharing Program
With gas prices continuing to rise, it’s a good time to consider sponsoring a ride-sharing or carpooling program at work.
3. Have a Family Day at Work
An employee’s family provides critically important support for the employee. Yet many families have never even seen where their spouse or parent goes each day to work. By having a day when you invite your employees’ families to visit the workplace, you can help bridge this gap.
4. Offer More Cross-Training Opportunities for Employees
Most employees want to have more variety in their jobs. Gen X and Gen Y employees in particular want to keep developing new skills. Cross-training provides variety as well as development of broader skills. People also gain a better appreciation for what their co-workers’ jobs involve and you get additional back up resources.
5. Publicize an Employee’s Community Involvement Efforts
People are involved in many community activities outside of work. Shine a light on their efforts. They are representing your company and any supportive comments, newsletter postings, pictures or awards are a great way to show your appreciation and encourage this behavior across the organization.
6. Present Employees with a Shirt or Jacket with the Organization’s Logo
You might be surprised how much pride employees have in the organization they work for. Presenting everyone with a jacket, t-shirt or cap with the organization’s logo and name creates a way for employees to express this pride and feel more a part of the team.
7. Sponsor a Health Fair for Employees
Sponsoring a health fair at work provides an easy and convenient way for employees to benefit from important health screening tests that they might not otherwise receive. In most cases you will find that sponsoring a fair is not expensive, as many of the services are available free or at minimal cost through local health agencies and organizations.
8. Allow Employees to Work Flexible Hours
Trying to balance the responsibilities of both work and home is the greatest challenge working families have. One of the best ways you can help your employees deal with their many responsibilities and retain them longer is to allow them to work more flexible hours, when possible.
9. Offer CPR Classes
Offering employees training in CPR and other emergency first-aid treatment can be the most valuable benefit you can provide in the event that these skills become needed in a real-life situation.
10. Include Pictures of Employees in Company Advertisements
Including pictures of employees in the company’s ads or other publications can be not only effective public relations, but also a morale booster in the organization. If your product advertising illustrates family members, you could extend this concept to the families of your employees as well.
