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How to Achieve a Great Workplace Experience with the Power of WE

Without a doubt, the most utilized universal business buzzword is team. For proof, all you need to do is perform an internet search of the word teamwork, and after the obligatory definition of the word you’ll find article after article about teamwork as part of the workplace experience.

Once upon a time, searching for the word teamwork would have displayed more information about the ballpark than the boardroom, but no more.

Of course, the concept of teamwork began with games and sports, and that’s why the web is replete with blogs and articles comparing sports teams with businesses. The similarities are hard to miss – in both cases, teams are composed of a group of people brought together to work toward a common goal. To achieve it, all members must play their individual roles to the best of their abilities, and they must respect and support the others in their roles. All for the power of WE.

The Emergence of Teamwork
While the concept of teamwork in the workplace is rampant, it’s comparatively new. Directly following World War II, and for decades thereafter, the business paradigm was one of command and control.

An employee’s workplace experience was shaped by where he or she was situated on the work pyramid, with the president of the company at the top, senior executives below him, and so on, down to the support staff who formed the base of the pyramid. According to the American Management Association, “Orders traveled in one direction: downward. Information filtered up slowly. Employees were expected to do their job, collect their paycheck, and be satisfied.”

However, with the dawning of the digital age, things have changed. Technology has altered the way and speed in which people complete work, and communication is now paramount to staying competitive in a rapidly shrinking global marketplace.

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How to Use Surveys to Improve Corporate Communication

While operating a business it can be hard to get effective feedback from your people. Their health and happiness influence your success. If people are happy, so too will your customers be. Good feedback allows for new opportunities and innovations, and a transparent workplace creates a strong brand positioned for growth.

Surveys are one of the most effective tools to provide you with the feedback needed to improve corporate communication. But for surveys to work, they must be created the right way, focused on simplicity and targeted for direct purposes. An effective survey leads to actionable results, and when you gather data from your people you can use it to create a stronger workplace.

By providing surveys, you can jumpstart multiple areas of the business, including:

Corporate communication
Employee engagement
Better customer service and client relationships
Improved pipeline for innovation
Healthy workplace culture and brand DNA
Effective synergy and teamwork
Here are ways you can use surveys to benefit your team communication.

Increase Your Feedback: Make it Easy to Respond
The most common barriers to entry for surveys is the difficulty in completing them and people worrying about their feedback could result in repercussions. How do we solve these issues?

When we use platforms that make it very easy to respond, people are more than willing to provide their input. What does that look like? Employee surveys should be the following:

Convenient (like on their phone or computer)
Easy to understand
Quick to complete
Clear and straightforward
When these points are met, you encourage people to complete their surveys as soon as they have access. If the survey is easy, you’ll get more responses more often.

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How to Tap into the Mindset of Your People to Drive Results

Empowered people can transform a company. They create effective teams full of resilience and innovation that can create an opportunity out of any obstacle.

Designing an environment where people thrive doesn't have to be difficult, and if you can practice essential steps to tap into the mindset of our teams by creating a thriving employee experience, you’ll accomplish great things.

When people are inspired, they share a common goal. To inspire a team, successful leaders consistently seek ways to understand their people and when using methods to tap into their mindset, like using anonymous surveys to get feedback or investing in the employee experience, you can propel their growth.

Here are five ways to jumpstart the mindset of your people and begin driving results.

1. Encourage Risk
It’s natural for people to hesitate when trying new things. A safe and comfortable position can be more attractive, but this stifles growth and slows down results. The best way to combat this is by creating an employee experience that encourages risk and accepts failure.

When people are no longer afraid to fail, they’ll be innovative and find ways to be more efficient at their jobs. They may analyze a situation and question if there’s a better way to do it. If their leaders make it known that it’s okay to fail, they’ll keep stretching the limits for the benefit of the company.

How do we treat failure? First, identify the boundaries of risk as there are times where it’s appropriate and times when it’s not. This can be typically found in areas where there’s a potential for financial losses or safety hazards.
But once those boundaries are communicated, people can be free to fail.

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