How to Make Employees Feel Valued and Appreciated?
Workplace employee appreciation leads to business success
Appreciation and gratitude have been scientifically proven to improve health, happiness, and productivity. Not only does it feel good, but it also creates a diverse environment and provides extrinsic motivation. It’s also quite empowering. Feeling valued at work improves more than just job satisfaction.
Appreciating employees is like a return on investment for an organization. Employee happiness and satisfaction translate into higher profits and work quality.
We’ve compiled a list of some effective strategies for increasing employee satisfaction by making them feel like the organization’s most valuable asset.
- Be mindful of employees’ workload
Work-life balance is essential for employees. According to a survey by Mavenlink, 62% of employees feel that work-life balance is important for a successful work culture. Workload management can be challenging, especially when multiple projects are running at once and are subject to frequent changes. Knowing employees’ schedules is essential for planning and managing their workloads.
A resource planning tool, like eRS, provides a resource calendar that allows you to monitor how many projects are assigned to each employee.
Resource management software comes with various features, like teamsheet, which enables Project Supervisors to compare the actual time taken by each employee on the assigned tasks. With these insights, managers can easily identify who is overburdened and take the necessary actions. Team members will value having leaders who are concerned about employee workload and aspire for a good work-life balance for the team.
- Boost organizational transparency
Organizational transparency is vital to employees. Transparency about organizational goals, ambitions, or results demonstrates respect for your workforce. According to the BetterWorks and Wakefield Research survey, employee performance would improve if they had a clear understanding of the goals.
Project transparency helps teams successfully complete projects and increase job satisfaction. Having transparency at work will certainly make employees feel more valued.
- Get creative with perks
Be a little creative to attract the best and brightest. For instance, Google, John Lewis, Virgin, and many others excel in this area. These companies are known for their deep understanding of their employees. Perks that are appropriate for the company’s culture and identity can help foster meaningful relationships between employees and leaders. Add value to employees’ lives, and tie back to the company’s culture and identity. Find benefits that meet your employees’ needs, and be creative!
- Introduce Automation in the workplace
The workplace environment has a significant impact on team morale and the overall work culture. We spend a considerable amount of time at work; a smart workplace will have smart technologies to make jobs easier and more enjoyable.
An environmentally friendly office can help foster innovative and constructive thinking. Upgrade to smart devices, implement cloud-based storage, organize teams online, choose an open office space, and do whatever you can to make them “fit in”.
- Don’t forget remote workers
The pandemic has affected many businesses and forced them to go remote. It’s critical to look after the distributed workforce. Essentially, they should not feel as if they are missing out on anything. Always consider remote working for staff. They will feel valued if they are noticed in the same way that they would if they were sitting in the office.
Remote communication is critical, so it’s worth investing time and money in teaching remote staff best practices and setting up useful tools. The same is true of remote productivity. Your team members will feel much better about themselves and perform at a higher level as they become more skilled at doing remote work.
If you want them to feel noticed and valued, make sure to respect their schedules and that they are informed about important company updates. Your part-time employees will undoubtedly appreciate it.
eResource Scheduler helps you make them feel valued and appreciated
We all love our team, don’t we? What would we do without our incredibly talented teams? Would we be at the pinnacle of business? Would we be able to grow our clientele, and increase our revenue? Would we have a team that is unique and innovative, while also being incredibly collaborative?
eRS aims to create teams that feel valued, and happy. Our resource planning software is feature-packed which unites the teams and helps you make the best decisions for the welfare of the organization or clients.
Make this team celebration something special! This is the best way to make everyone feel valued for their roles.