Top 5 Ways to Keep Your Team Motivated During the Summertime

The sun is out, people are itching to be near water and many members of your team are in and out of the office for vacation. Sweet summertime. Although these months can be the happiest of months for your employees, engagement can dip low.  

Side effects of decreased productivity, negative company culture and low retention can hit your company like a pound of bricks during the summertime. Furthermore, your bottom line can be greatly affected, which no company wants to endure.

Stop the summertime blues for your executive team and keep your workforce engaged during the summer months.

5 Tips to Keep Employees Engaged During The Summer

Focus on quality, not quantity:

During the summer months business can get slow and people are constantly out of the office, which can leave your sales team behind on quota or your employees lacking drive to get their work done. With morale and staff low, push quality leads, sales and work through your company culture and set goals with all factors in mind.

Mix it up with collaboration & creativity:

Create new teams, hold meetings for collective brainstorms, reorganize seating arrangements and foster creativity. All of these ideas will help keep your team active and engaged with all of the commotion during vacation season.

Get outdoors:

Who doesn’t love a good dose of Vitamin D during the day? If people want to be outside, give them the opportunity! Take a meeting outdoors, walk around the block during a sales call or take your working lunch to the picnic tables. No matter how you decide to incorporate the outdoors into your employees’ work day, they will surely thank you for it.

Be flexible:

The best thing you can do for your business is flexibility. This allows you to be able to create a nurturing and understanding culture that allows the best for each employee. This will generate not only an extremely positive company culture, but also create intense loyalty among your workforce.

Reward:

There are many options when it comes to rewarding your employees. Although cash is seen as your typical incentive, our data clearly shows that digital debit card rewards are what employees prefer - they get to choose whatever they want to buy! 

The summer months can be crucial to your company’s overall success. Continue to encourage productivity and engagement through these tactics and many more.