Smart Ideas For The Workplace

Are you looking for some smart ideas for the workplace? If so, here are a few ideas you may want to try out.

Idea Box – simple, yet effective. If you haven’t already, allow your employees the opportunity to share their ideas with an “idea box.” Your employees may have some great ideas on how to cut costs and improve productivity. You can make it interesting by giving a gift card to the employee with the best idea each quarter. Be creative and find a way to show your employees that you value their ideas.

Create a Wellness Program – this is especially important for those companies that have increasing health care costs. A wellness program can help show your insurance carrier that you care about your employees health. A healthy employee is a happy and productive employee. You shouldn’t expect more than 25% of your total workforce to get involved with the wellness program right away, so don’t try to push it on them. Eventually their co-workers will start telling them about how much fun they have had with the program and they will encourage one another to join. Once again, offer some kind of reward, like paid time off. You can create a committee to track each employees performance each month, and give out awards for those that reach their goals. Keep it simple.

Create a Fun Committee – this can be a great way to keep things fun and exciting in the workplace. Your employees should feel comfortable in the workplace, and what better way than to have a fun committee? You can plan company picnics, a good old fashion recess at lunch or just plan company parties. This can be a very good way of building strong relationship among your employees, which ultimately leads to a fun and energetic workplace.

If you have some more fun ideas for the workplace, please share it with everyone. Work is the “necessary evil” that we must all partake in, well most of us anyway… so we may as well make the workplace a fun place to be.

Jacob Hesse