The following excerpt comes from C.A. Short Company’s FREE eBook, 35 Ways to Influence Corporate Culture and Increase Your Bottom Line.
In this post, we’ll take a look at the importance of Social Experiences in the work place and offer up a suggested activity that will help create a Culture of Engagement at your company.
#20 Social Experiences
When you see one employee standing in the office of another employee laughing, do you immediately want to run into the room and break it up?
When an employee says he or she doesn’t have enough time to complete his/her tasks, do you feel the need to remind the person that their lunch break ran 10 minutes long?
If you answered, “yes,” to either one of those questions, you may have an “all business” mentality. Regardless, it is important to step out of your own circumstances and realize that the majority of the general workforce needs to be social to keep motivated.
With the advent of Social Media, we have become a generation who thrives on intimate relationships and sharing of our lives in real time. Social experiences should not be viewed as time-wasters. They can be opportunities to give employees a much needed brain break and encourage team work and camaraderie among co-workers.
Disclaimer: Ok, so I’m sure you are picturing that one employee who spends their entire day hopping from office to office chatting and never getting any work done. That person isn’t needing to be social. That person is disengaged, and you need to either figure out how to pull him or her back in or let this employee go.
Suggested Activity
During your next department meeting, have each member of your team answer a discussion starter question. This will introduce your employees to the concept of being social at work on a low key level. An added bonus is they will get to know each other and build a connection with their coworkers.
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