Good work
This is where an employee has a pleasant working environment and feels positive about their work. Be that about their role, workload or management. Some ideas are:
Offer flexible working to ease pressures from an employee’s personal life.
Ensure employees are comfortable with an ergonomically designed office/desk.
Provide management training to ensure good line management.
Promote work-life balance with regular socials.
Offer fair and transparent bonus and incentive programmes.
Values/principles
A person’s conscience plays a big part in their identity. If they do not believe they work for a ‘good’ company, this will affect their motivation and wellbeing.
If they genuinely believe in the company and the values it stands for, employees will feel happier in their job and limited to bringing success. Some ideas are:
Show a clear commitment to health and wellbeing with an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
Hold charity events or encourage volunteering through work, optional of course.
Engage with the local community through sponsored events.
Back diversity and inclusion with diversity training days and diversity-friendly workforce policies, such as hours which suit working mothers.
Holding a staff wellbeing day with ideas on how to improve company wellbeing.
Collective/social
We spend a lot of our adult lives at work, so it is essential that it feel like a welcoming space. If an employee comes into work dreading it, they’re never going to be as successful in their role as they could be.
Creating a good social and collective identity will help an employee feel more at home and allow them to excel. Some ideas are:
Encourage teamwork with regular group brainstorms and ideas sessions.
Run management training courses and recruit from within to build company relationships.
Whenever making a decision that will affect everyone in the business, try and run an open forum to involve everyone in decision making.
Hold regular socials, such as Friday beers or a company lunch.
Teamwork skills workshops.
Personal growth
What keeps people motivated in their career is growth. If they feel like they aren’t learning anything or growing, but the business is, that doesn’t matter to them.
It is in the businesses best interests to grow its employees alongside itself to keep raising the bar.
With employees being satisfied in their career, they will be more likely to excel at work and want to put in the extra effort. Some ideas are:
Mentoring from peers or employees in other departments, allowing development, knowledge sharing or upskilling.
Having career and performance development planning software or services as a perk.
Holding resilience training to improve personal development.
Access to training platforms such as Udemy and Skillshare where employees can learn outside of work.
Inviting prominent figures in your industry to come and hold talks/seminars.
Good lifestyle choices
Encouraging good lifestyle choices in an employee will really help their wellbeing. Some feel they can’t carry out some of these things because work takes over. If you support them, they will have massive health and wellbeing benefits.
For example, employees with high blood pressure are absent, more so than those with normal blood pressure. Here are some staff wellbeing activities you can encourage:
Good lifestyle choices
Encouraging good lifestyle choices in an employee will really help their wellbeing. Some feel they can’t carry out some of these things because work takes over. If you support them, they will have massive health and wellbeing benefits.
For example, employees with high blood pressure are absent, more so than those with normal blood pressure. Here are some staff wellbeing activities you can encourage:
Providing workout classes at work or subsidised gym memberships.
Having bike parking and changing facilities to encourage taking a bike to work.
Standing desks or exercise ball seats.
If there is a canteen, offering healthy choices.
Weekly/monthly cooking or recipe clubs.
Financial wellbeing
A person’s financial situation will have a huge effect on their day. Stress caused by pay levels, lack of financial awareness or absence of employee benefits can affect work performance.
While you help employees by providing a wage, you can go a step further and offer them more ways of making sensible financial decisions. Some ideas are:
Make it a policy to pay all employees the national living wage.
Have a profit share scheme to allow employees to benefit from the company’s success.
Hold work days focused on finances and saving.
Phased retirement programmes.
Debt counselling.