Improve productivity and employee engagement
Optimise your team performance
Optimise your team performance
Employee voice is vital to ensure continued business success. It’s important to listen to your people and get them involved in decision-making or you could be missing out on the best asset you could ever have.
Improve through innovation and your people
Your greatest asset is the talent within your organisation. As you reflect on your new business and operating environment, consider how your people impact these and how you can make better use of the skills, knowledge and capability of your entire workforce.
Maximising your people resources through a positive and supportive working environment will reduce staff turnover and sickness absence while improving productivity, innovation and engagement.
Consider alternative business models to reduce costs and increase your competitiveness. For example, a consortium co-operative could allow you to partner with other businesses feeling today's economic pressures. Working together allows you to reduce costs, share risks and create new platforms for growth in the UK and internationally.
Putting your people first
Your employees will individually and collectively have a treasure chest of ideas to make the business better - it’s more important than ever that you listen to them and let their voices be heard. Their ideas could help accelerate your recovery and position the business for growth.
Think about the processes and systems you have in place to engage your staff. Set up a transparent process to capture their ideas and prioritise those that will have greatest impact.
“When you start going into people’s emotional intelligence you understand that with different people, you have to communicate with them in different ways to get them to respond.”
Duncan McConchie, Laggan Outdoors
Getting started
Ask yourself these questions to find out if your company is making full use of its most important asset, your people:
- Are you a leader guided by values?
- How do your employees know that their contribution is valued?
- How do your employees share their ideas?
- How do you ensure that you have the capability?
- Are you and your workforce confident in your capability to deliver future business needs?
What you can do now
- Reassess the workspace – physically and technically – to maximise team working opportunities
- Enhance job satisfaction and wellbeing to increase staff motivation and enable optimum performance
- Listen to your employees’ ideas and prioritise against objectives
- Challenge teams to continuously improve themselves
- Enable employees to use their knowledge, ability and creativity to the fullest
- Fail fast - take risks and learn from your failures to develop a more entrepreneurial culture
"Successful businesses thrive on motivated workforces. It’s important that leaders invest in efforts to rebuild workplace morale, especially after major disruptions. Communication with your people is key. Listen to their needs."
Clare Alexander, Head of Business Models and Workplace Innovation, Scottish Enterprise
Managing People for Growth programme
This programme of six workshops is for anyone in a supervisory role who wants to develop their skills to effectively manage people and drive success within their organisation.
Leadership Development programme
Whether you’re a new leader or have a wealth of experience, our future-proof workshops are designed to increase your team’s success and wellbeing. Choose from two levels to suit your needs.
Looking to speak to an expert?
From leadership workshops and masterclasses to free consultancy and advice, we're ready to help you get the most from your team.