Building Up The Employee Experience

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Businesses are faced with the changing tides of their workforce, and there’s a right way to improve employee satisfaction while encouraging growth, sparking engagement, and boosting production. Making an effort to meet new, current, and future employees halfway is a critical step toward strengthening the workplace construct known as the employee experience (EX). Maybe even a little more so if able.

3 ways to build up the employee experience

Improve the employee experience for organizational success with these three things in mind:

1. Progress at the forefront and a strategy for growth.

Not every company has the same tools or resources to provide their teams the dream employee environment, but an easy place to start improvement is from within. Thankfully, there’s no specific time frame before or after an organization’s been established where procedures and methods need to be set in stone. Which presents the perfect opportunity to measure and leverage feedback from each stage in the employee lifecycle to blueprint areas for growth.

Decision-makers must continue adapting to culturally driven and employee-focused business goals and strategies that will give them a competitive advantage in today’s job market. A pro tip is to advance within reason by finding the right balance between comfort and complacency within your organization.

2. Follow through with implementing change.

Collaborative idea-sharing is essential before improving the experience of your teams, but action shouldn’t be too far behind. Let’s face it, individually customized employee experiences may seem like a steep request, thankfully improvement doesn’t have to mean a drastic transformation, just steps in the right direction. 

It’s easy to get stuck behind the drawing board mapping out your intent for major changes, but even small initiatives significantly impact the employee experience. Thoughtful and targeted engagement, an inclusive culture that stretches beyond office walls, and encouragement regarding a healthy work-life balance are three ways business leaders are guiding positive satisfaction levels among employees.

3. Employee engagement and performance sync with experience.

Briefly walk down memory lane for a moment and pause at a point in your career when your job lacked luster. When motivation to fulfill even the mundane job requirements and the effort to interact with co-workers faltered. Now consider how different that memory, and perhaps your entire career path, would be if your employee experience at the time was more nurturing.

Successful organizations are constantly improving the employee experience to maintain job satisfaction and boost their teams’ production. Attracting, motivating, and keeping your high performers comes down to your ability to recognize areas for development. Here are just a few ways companies are promoting a more nurtured approach to improving the employee experience:

• Challenge pre-set bars your employees, business, and competitors may have set for success. 
• Give your teams the autonomy to discover and master their peak-performance schedules.
• Create a space for transparent feedback and encouragement so that no employee gets left behind or held back.

It’s ok if there aren’t instantaneous results to the changes you’ve made or are still making to improve the environment and production of your team. The main takeaway is that you can control growth, engagement, and turnover by making the most of each stage of employment within your organization. 

Whether you’re a recent start-up, or a well-known and reputable company, it’s never too late or too early to encourage new heights of success for your employees and business.