Amidst Zoom meetings, sales reports, trend analysis, and fighting to keep up with the competition, it’s easy to overlook workplace fulfilment on the never-ending list of tasks required to run your business. However, if you’re looking for a way to improve company morale, cultivate positive relationships with clients, and boost your brand reputation within the community, then you need to prioritize workplace fulfilment and examine its connection to positive change.

With the proper, thoughtful approach, your business stands to benefit greatly from positive and charitable acts. Yes, it’s possible to do something good for employees, clients, and the community as well as your business’s bottom line. When you look at the connection between positive change and workplace fulfilment, you will see that it starts with fostering intentional relationships.

Businesses of all sizes and across industries would do well to devote resources to implementing positive change. Even seemingly small actions such as sending holiday cards or organizing a volunteer outing can have a big impact on workplace fulfilment. Once you understand how prioritizing workplace fulfilment can transform your organization, you’ll never resign it to the back burner again.

Why Workplace Fulfilment Matters

More often than not, organizations that fail to recognize the connection between positive change and workplace fulfilment are home to unhappy employees. During the Industrial Age, the most successful businesses worked their army of laborers to the bone day in and day out. Workers were nothing more than, well, workers. Today, successful companies understand the importance of employee happiness.

From client relationships to brand reputation, employee happiness drives an organization’s vitality. Not only are happier employees more productive, but happier employees are less likely to seek other employment. Management and leadership know that employee turnover carries a high cost. When it comes to attracting and retaining high-quality talent, employee happiness is key. To stay competitive in any industry, you need talented employees who are motivated to work productively every day.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the happiest employees are the ones who feel that the work they are doing is fulfilling. Cultivating a fulfilling employee experience begins with establishing opportunities for your employees to foster positive relationships with their colleagues, clients, and the larger community.

How to Enact Positive Change in the Workplace

Now that you understand that providing a competitive salary and benefits doesn’t necessarily equate to a fulfilling workplace experience, it’s time to take steps to enact positive change. Cultivating positive change shouldn’t strictly be a work-based effort. For example, sending handwritten notes or hefty discounts could help to foster a more personal relationship with clients. It adds a human element to what can sometimes feel like an impersonal interaction.

Another way to enhance workplace fulfilment is by organizing company volunteer opportunities. Facilitate conversations to learn what causes your employees are passionate about and match those with needs in the community. Providing the framework to help your employees live a life they’re proud of will increase workplace fulfilment. In addition to positively impacting recruitment and retention, an employee volunteer program will enhance community relations and make social responsibility a part of your brand.

Other positive changes that you can make in your organization to increase workplace fulfilment include diversifying your advertising campaigns, letting creativity breathe, and shaping your innovations to support the lifestyle changes that your consumers are trying to make. At the end of the day, your employees want to know that the work they’re doing for your organization is making a difference. Enacting positive change in the workplace should be an ongoing effort that involves regular check-ins with employees to gauge their feelings of fulfilment.

More Tips for Fostering Workplace Fulfilment

Because the importance that employees place on fulfilment in the workplace isn’t going away, you shouldn’t put off taking action. As millennials and gen z take over the workforce, providing a rewarding and fulfilling employee experience will become even more vital. Research shows that millennials desire a workplace where they feel supported, have opportunities for meaningful work, and can thrive under reputable leadership. Free snacks and the office pool table are a nice touch, but superficial perks alone aren’t enough.

People want to work for companies whose missions reflect and reinforce their values. They want their workplace to feel like a community. If you’re struggling to create a sense of community and foster a fulfilling workplace environment, turn to your employees for help. Consider establishing an employee-led committee that meets with you to discuss their ideas for positive change. Rather than guessing what your employees need from you, go straight to the source and ask them. Interacting with your employees on their level will help to build trust— a positive change in and of itself.

Making positive changes in the workplace improves company morale and fosters intentional relationships amongst employees, clients, and within the community. Prioritizing positive and charitable acts will increase workplace fulfilment which, in turn, will lead to greater employee happiness.

 

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Beau Peters

Beau Peters is a creative professional with a lifetime of experience in service and care. As a manager, he's learned a slew of tricks of the trade that he enjoys sharing with others who have the same passion and dedication that he brings to his work. When he is not writing, he enjoys reading and trying new things.