How Can You Keep Your Employees Happy?

Weekly bonuses and 60 days paid leave!

No seriously, how can you give employees a benefit that will actually make them more motivated, focused and ultimately, loyal to the company? As part of the research that we do as an organisation we witness businesses spending an enormous amount of time and energy trying to tackle this and many times, they get it wrong. Sometimes, giving people more 'stuff' doesn't motivate them. It has to be the right sort of 'stuff'.

We use various methods but here's 3 ways you can get started:

1. Speak to your employees. Ask them what will make them happier. Make sure your benefits really are benefits. A carefully designed process (smart questionnaires, one-to-one chats) to get the right information from staff can lead to a targeted initiative achieving fantastic results.

2. Give staff access to the resources they need to achieve success. Don’t leave them any reason or excuse to think that what they've told you they need has fallen on deaf ears. Our expertise is in wellbeing so when we run corporate fitness programs, we make sure that our clients have access to everything they need to take instant and ongoing action by providing experts on site, fully developed programs and regular guidance and motivation.

3. Measure progress. You’ve got to know that what you’re doing works so regular measurement is vital and helps to keep staff happy on two levels. Firstly, by consulting them they feel involved in what’s going on and take a degree of ownership in the project. Secondly, assessing progress helps you to evolve the most effective initiatives over time and ditch what isn't working.



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