A good working atmosphere is essential for the functioning of a business. With the following 30 methods you can positively influence the mood in the company:
- Praise your employees for good work
- Offer your employees internal development prospects
- Pay your employees transparently and fairly
- Let your employees benefit from the success of the company
- Bear social responsibility as an employer
- Be open to constructive suggestions from your employees
- Talk openly about problems and try to find a solution together
- Make sure that the employees feel comfortable
- Encourage your employees to take holidays
- Make sure that your employees can relax in their free time and that they are allowed to be unavailable at times.
- Create a functioning IT & technical infrastructure
- Celebrate success in the company
- Create flexible working time models with which your employees can optimally balance their private and working lives
- Give employees the opportunity for further training
- Stand by your employees even if something is not going as well as it should
- Make sure that the sanitary facilities are clean
- Provide your employees with good coffee, drinks & fruit
- Offer retreats in which your employees can work undisturbed and concentrated if necessary
- Trust your employees and give them the flexibility to organise their work processes
- Take time to introduce new employees to the company
- Give employees the opportunity to try out new ideas
- Accept your employees’ mistakes and create an open culture of improvement
- Provide pleasant office space in which the employees feel comfortable
- Make sure that your company does not become a bureaucracy monster, but that employees can concentrate on their actual work
- Organise small spontaneous surprises for employees
- Create the framework conditions so that an employee can stay at home without worry/stress or a guilty conscience in the event of illness
- If you are in a bad mood, keep it to yourself and do not pass it on to your staff
- Have an open information policy in your company so that employees feel involved
- Allow your employees a little freedom in designing their workplace where they are likely to spend most of their working day
- Also make sure that your managers also consistently implement the methods mentioned