100 Quick and Easy Employee Engagement Tips

Are your employees engaged? Do you even know if they are?

If your organization is anything like the average company, a majority of them are not — despite what you may think. According to a recent Gallup survey, only 32% of employees are engaged with their jobs, which means that more than two-thirds of workers aren’t reaching their full potential.

No matter how strong your employee engagement program is, you can always make it a little bit stronger. With that in mind, here are 100 quick and easy employee engagement tips that should make your team more productive:

• Recognize your employees’ hard work
• Make professional development a top priority
• Schedule team-building events on a regular basis
• Let your employees make their own schedules
• Articulate a clear vision for your company
• Define job responsibilities very thoroughly
• Be as transparent as possible when communicating important company news
• Solicit feedback from your team at recurring intervals
• Build a strong and fun corporate culture
• Hire employees for culture fit
• Equip your team with tools that make their jobs easier
• Provide ample opportunities for training and coaching
• Allow your employees to work remotely
• Give back to your community as a team
• Hold 1:1 meetings to give your employees time to express their thoughts privately
• Treat your employees as adults and let them work autonomously
• Prove that you care about work-life balance
• Encourage your employees to pursue pet projects
• Foster a work environment that is conducive to collaboration
• Applaud your employees when they want to work with other departments
• Know your employees’ career goals and help them reach them
• Promote from within whenever senior positions open up
• Cultivate personal relationships with your employees and encourage them to do the same
• Set goals for your team and work hard, together, to reach them
• Lead by example — your employees will follow suit
• Harness the power of having pride in your organization
• Hold spontaneous team-building events
• Motivate your team with positive reinforcement
• Make sure your employees feel a sense of ownership in the organization
• Innovate as a manager and rethink the way you do things
• Help your employees find meaning in their work
• Provide feedback on your employees’ work regularly
• Identify your employees’ skill sets — and cater to them
• Invest in your employees’ health (e.g., healthy snacks and gym memberships)
• Transform your office into a fun place to do great work
• Add more desirable perks to the mix when your budget allows it
• Take a company field trip to a museum, art gallery, or park
• Switch to an open office layout (at least partially)
• Introduce new hires to the rest of the team right away
• Enable employees to make lateral moves within your organization
• Let your workers take on additional responsibilities when they show initiative
• Eliminate all unnecessary meetings to give your employees more time to work
• Live your organizational values
• Bring in meals for your staff whenever you can
• Hold your necessary meetings outside
• Let your employees listen to music in the workplace at least occasionally
• Send as few emails as you can
• Start a mentorship program where senior workers take rookies under their wings
• Share positive customer feedback in a timely manner
• Help your employees solve any problems that materialize
• Read your company’s Glassdoor page and respond to what’s said there (within reason)
• Use gamification whenever you can
• Take dreadful tasks off your employees’ plates when someone else doesn’t mind doing them
• Establish a culture of trust
• Embrace innovation and encourage your employees to come up with new ideas
• Allow your employees to bring their dogs to the office at least once a week
• Invite experts into the office to hold workshops and seminars
• Respond to feedback promptly to prove you care what employees are saying
• Give your employees the authority to plan company-wide events
• Encourage open brainstorming sessions from time to time
• Give hot desking a try
• Understand that every employee is not the same person
• Make sure your employees unplug when the time is right
• Take a zany team photo once a year (or once a quarter)
• Have themed days at the workplace (e.g., ugly sweater day)
• Give your employees the raises they deserve
• Celebrate employee milestones and anniversaries
• Take your team out to a paintbar to channel their inner van Gogh
• Cultivate an atmosphere that is conducive to learning
• Encourage your employees to speak their minds
• Let your workers shadow other teams to spark new ideas
• Support local businesses (e.g., the neighborhood coffee shop)
• Sponsor an event or a conference
• Stress the importance of taking breaks throughout the day
• Send a random group of employees out to lunch to get to know each other
• Have a company game day once a month or once a quarter
• Explain your employees’ benefits thoroughly when anything changes
• Allow any employee to contribute to the company blog
• Start a company newsletter to highlight your employees’ achievements and passions
• Develop a strong EQ to become an ever better leader
• Give all your employees a chance to try new things
• Share relevant and meaningful content with your team
• Have your employees volunteer to redecorate the office seasonally
• Hold playful contests to encourage your employees to reach their full potential
• Plan events that enable your employees’ families to meet one another
• Relax your dress code if you haven’t already
• Turn failures into learning opportunities
• Make sure senior management is visible and reachable
• Pay for your employees to attend networking events
• Attend a sporting event if you live near a professional stadium
• Schedule a company retreat
• Organize a company-wide pool during the March Madness college basketball tournament
• Bring in coffee and doughnuts for your team every now and again
• Take your employees out for a few rounds of bowling
• Put your workers first
• Give out unique and funny awards to your employees once a year
• Play to your employees’ strengths
• Use exit interviews to continuously improve your company
• Hold yourself to the same standards your hold your employees
• Measure employee engagement periodically to make sure your program is working

What does your organization do to engage your workers?

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