4 Company Culture Hacks to
Boost Engagement in 2020
Company culture is viewed by Gen Xers and Baby Boomers as
Ping Pong, free food, bean bag chairs and a bunch of lazy
Millennials complaining about work. Well, hate to break it to you,
but company culture is something much deeper to Millennials.
The Phrase company culture has been quite the buzzword in
2019 and tends to be a very elusive phrase. I would submit that
company culture is actually very easy to describe. It consists of 3
questions that need to be explained, 1- Who you are, 2- What do
you do 3- Why do you do it. Your core values and mission
underlie these three components. Culture is a very real
representation of environment one can experience inside your
office.
Enhancing your company culture is not as hard as you might
think. Here are four hacks you can implement into your office
asap to increase the environment of your workplace.
1- Weekly Team Lunches (outside the office) are great ways to
break up the mundane tasks the team will be engaged with and
help recalibrate the mood. Lunch does not have to be paid for by
the company, although that’d be nice, it’s organized as a bonding
time to get to hang out with one another. To get this rolling, create
a simple recurring calendar invite to your team members. Get it
on the schedule and send out a survey to ask what everyone
enjoys to eat. Take turns rotating through everyone’s favorite
place to eat.
2- Sports clothes Friday. Let’s be honest, there are some real
cray cray crazies about their favorite sports teams. Awesome!
Celebrate that! It’s a fun way to create talking points and get
personalities to emerge. Encourage everyone to participate by
wearing either their favorite team t-shirt or color of their favorite
team. Seasonal challenges around playoffs of major sports can
be a fun way to bond.
3- InstaChallenge. Find a hashtag for the team to follow and put
together a simple scavenger hunt that requires each participant to
take a selfie with each find. They post the image to instagram and
use the hashtag. It’s a great way to follow your peers on
instagram and engage with one another’s posts. Have a prize for
the person who completes the challenge first.
4- Team outing. Here in Scottsdale, AZ we have a fun place to
golf called TopGolf. It’s essentially a driving range with TVs,
music and food. The environment is highly engaging and you
can’t help but have a good time hanging out with your team
members. These type of activities don’t cost a lot of money, but
pay out large dividends.
The friendship and bonding from these type of out-of-office
activities last for a long time. Millennials have a high value placed
on relationships. Millennials will often care more about how are
their team members being treated in the workplace, than
themselves. If you want to boost your company culture
environment, focus on genuine attention to happiness. Surround
your events and focus around engagement.
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