Create Positive Environment in office
Rajiv Kumar
Assistant Manager Compliance/Business Head Recruitment/ Lean Six Sigma White & Yellow Belt / Team Leader / Business Development
Creating a positive work environment more deeply motivates and engages your employees, leading to higher job satisfaction and employee retention within your organization. A healthy work environment gives you and your employee’s opportunities to share ideas for your company's success that can help your organization grow because every mind is having different bucket of ideas. A healthy office environment can also boost your employees' productivity and reduce your chances of dealing with frequent absenteeism
Positive work environment include?
A positive work environment equally prioritizes business success and employee happiness. If you are focusing on creating a positive work environment, make sure that your company's culture includes work-life balance (such as by allowing work from home), open flow of ideas among employees and management with no fear. Because if the company does not follow the Open Door Policy and also using the harsh language OR criticize your employees as per the given views than your business can not grow with the hire speed.
“Always welcome the new ideas & never criticized”
When creating a positive work environment, you should also think about your office space in and of itself. Keep the following questions in mind:
?Do your employees have enough space to complete their work without taking up somebody else's space?
?Are you giving your employees proper privacy while ensuring they remain transparent about how they're using their time on the job?
?Are you offering spaces where employees can go to take breaks or discuss work matters with their co-workers?
To creating a positive environment extends far beyond your office space. You should also ask yourself these questions:
?What opportunities do you provide for gathering your employees outside your office space for fun group activities that can increase team morale and help achieve your company's mission?
?Are your employees clear on what your company's mission is? (With the SOP’s)
?Do you permit remote work when your employees feel sick or need to take care of personal needs at home?
?How many vacation days, personal days, sick days and paid days off do you allow? (Standard Leave policy should be follow)
These questions can help you in creating a positive work environment, but above all, common sense, tact and empathy – in other words, seeing your employees as humans rather than just business tools.
1. Hire great team members (and don't be afraid to let bad ones go).
Successful businesses know that a positive work environment starts with hiring the right people. Make sure your employees are professional and team players. The same idea translates to those who are already in the office. When employees work with toxic people, they are more likely to become toxic themselves, tumbling your company into a toxic work environment. So show them the outside root from your company.
2. Improve the lighting.
Most of us are thinking is lighting give any impact over on our work, in my opinion yes, light is playing a vital role in office, it's not possible to incorporate natural lighting through windows. So we have to choose soothing and dim lights, those produce the positive vibes (like Blue, warm white etc…)
3. Make the office comfortable.
As I have discussed earlier in this article, we have to follow the Open Door Policy. And also focused in leave management and remote work options.
4. Improve communication.
Be mindful of how you interact with employees. Team members and upper management should focus on their communication methods and the effects they have on creating a positive work environment.
"Employees are motivated and feel valued when they're given positive reinforcement and shown how their work contributes to the success of the business.
Assistant Manager Compliance/Business Head Recruitment/ Lean Six Sigma White & Yellow Belt / Team Leader / Business Development
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