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The workplace should be engaging, inviting, and motivating atmosphere. Without the right surroundings, employees can easily lose focus and lack motivation. If you feel disconnected from your surroundings, it can be difficult to complete your work and feel inspired whilst working. Thus, making the workplace more engaging will benefit your business as well as the staff. Here’s how to achieve that.
Think about the furniture
Although the furniture may not seem like the problem for a lack of motivation and focus, it can play a huge role. If your furniture lacks comfort or organization, it can impact the staff’s focus and engagement.
For instance, think of how long a person can sit comfortably at home on soft chairs. You could utilize the homely feel and add new furnishings to the office to add comfort and enhance its look. You may work in a lab, so adding softer chairs for long experiments or medication carts that look like furniture could enhance the comfort and the aesthetic, which can make the space more inviting and engaging.
Have a social space
A workplace that lacks a social space is hindering employee relationships. Apart from their desks, where is the place they work, where else are employees supposed to socialize if there is not a dedicated space?
The kitchen is commonplace to gather. Yet, this can hinder its main purpose of being used to make food and drink. Thus, a small social area where meetings or lunch discussions can take place will encourage employees to improve their communication and build relationships in the office. It is important for employees to socialize to increase the support network amongst employees in the office and also better relationships will improve staff’s overall happiness.
Offer rewards and surprises
Your staff can easily become demotivated if every day is the same. You can easily increase engagement and excitement with random rewards and surprises. If all staff has completed tasks for the week by Friday lunchtime, why not throw a small party and offer the afternoon off?
This will increase staff interaction and improve relationships. Additionally, it may make staff feel respected and show that you recognize their efforts. This should help increase staff attentiveness and motivation as they will know that hard work and engaging with their tasks will pay off with a reward.
Encourage team activities
Encouraging your team to work together will help them collaborate more during office hours. Working together on projects can maximize the outcome and speed up the task time completion.
A lack of communication in the workplace can often leave people in the dark when they have questions. Whereas team activities will encourage that and improve workplace friendships.
Team activities could include games in the office or days out. You could reward staff with the afternoon off and go out for an afternoon of sport or adventure. There are many team activities that you can offer your staff, or be involved in yourself, which will boost team spirit and make the workplace more engaging.