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Let's face it, employee feedback doesn't always come easily. Especially when the stakes are high and performance appraisals are at stake.
But feedback is an essential part of any healthy working environment, so what can you do to make it more effective? How can you help your team members grow professionally?
We all know that great relationships lead to greater productivity, happier employees and a better company culture. That's why giving your employees opportunities to share their ideas, ask questions and make suggestions helps build trust, improve collaboration and give everyone a voice.
However, as with most things in life, the real test of employee feedback comes in its execution. It's not enough to simply implement a process once or twice a year, you need to keep thinking about how you can iterate on it so that it becomes part of your organisation's culture moving forward.
Here are some ideas that can help you continue to grow as a company and at the same time create a more transparent atmosphere for your team members.
This is a very effective way of collecting and giving feedback on your company's processes. It's important that the whole team is at this meeting so that it's possible to check all the points that have been realised in your company's operations.
It's also worth emphasising that the meeting coordinator should already have established agendas so that the meeting doesn't become loose and lack concrete objectives. After the meeting, it's important to define new objectives based on feedback from everyone at the meeting.
In addition to small weekly meetings, it's important that every 3 months employees are invited to interviews to show their feedback on the processes. At this point, it's important to ask the employee about the improvements and new opportunities they see in their micro and macro view of the company's processes.
This is also the time to see if the employee is enjoying and adapting to the team, because the secret to a team's exponential growth is an increasingly strong sense of belonging to your company.
Here we are from the #cafémensal team to align the business relationship between all employees, it is in this opportunity that we debate the future of each department and how we can advance in the objectives while maintaining innovation, creativity and sparkle in the eyes.
How about proposing an award or bonus for the best employees? That's when welcoming should be a marked presence in your company's organisational culture! Make it a unique moment for your team to grow even more throughout the year.
Sometimes a company doesn't live by face-to-face employees alone; you also need to give importance and attention to those who are working remotely. To do this, schedule meetings and, if possible, invite them to have a delicious coffee at the company's headquarters, so that they are more connected to the teams and processes.
Offer excellent working conditions so that the employee's performance is as good as possible, because when we work in an environment that is suitable and achievable, it's much easier to grow your team.
Have meetings with weekly and monthly agendas to monitor the work of these employees who don't depend on the company's physical space for their work, as well as liking the flexibility and better living conditions.
Do you know what to do post-event? Don't be a company that closes an event without collecting feedback from participants, especially those who worked hard to make the event happen. As well as collecting feedback from attendees in general, it's also important to hold a meeting with employees to gather positive and negative feedback on the corporate event.
Targets shouldn't be set by a team in isolation; you should look at the level of maturity of the operation and take into account information from everyone in the company so that you can set SMART targets.
No one likes to be given a target that is impossible to achieve, right? Well, be aware of all the necessary information when creating these objectives in your projects, so that your team will work towards the goal.
Feedbacks are extremely necessary for your company to evolve and for your team to be the best it can be in all its activities. Feedback should not be given in a disorganised and ineffective way, and your team should be trained in how to give the best feedback to the team!
The OPorto Forte Group has excellent corporate communication training programmes to help your company grow without limits in the market. Highly qualified teachers and diversified formats are part of our corporate training structure.
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