Building a strong company culture and feeling like you belong to a community is essential in granting us a feeling of value, respect, and contribution. As people work in a group of like-minded peers and managers, their work seems to be more significant. The growing ease of interaction between workers comes with a sense of camaraderie. And feeling a team member working on a mission actually inspires people to take on further tasks.
Recognize your team’s efforts:
- The key to success is to create a place where recognition flows naturally. Making your employees feel recognized and rewarded for their performances and efforts is important. Whether by a simple thank you, reward, promotion, or any other form will help create a sense of belonging and appreciation to the community.
Organize team expeditions:
- Organizing events outside the workplace is a great way to get people to know each other on a more personal level. Trips and social events help create a bond between the employees and feel closer by the day.
Involvement in sports teams:
- By involving your team in sports and fitness clubs you are showing them how much you care for their health and how much you encourage their participation and team spirit. These kinds of intra-company activities help create a sense of competition. It helps to create new partnerships, knockdown geographic barriers, and unite the whole team around an endeavor of feeling good.
Create team initiatives:
- One way to collaborate together and feel the solidarity is through organizing initiatives to give back to your community. Volunteering or raising money to help a certain cause will make your team generate positive vibes and a great sense of contributing to the greater good.
Create purpose-designed spaces:
- Providing workers with places to socially get together is very important. Your people need to be able to chat, so having a place like a kitchen, cafeteria, ping pong table, or an office-wide casual seating will allow them to talk about the footy of the weekend or solve a particular challenge at the workplace.
Creating an inclusive culture based on meaningful partnerships, progressive accountability, and purpose-driven attitudes provide a positive performance-oriented atmosphere where workers can operate at their best, particularly during rapid development or challenging periods.
References: https://www.flarehr.com/blog/develop-a-strong-workplace-community-on-any-budget/
https://blog.jostle.me/blog/5-ways-to-create-community-in-your-organization
