Employee Retention: The Essential Effort

This is not breakout news: for every business, in every industry, a key challenge is employee retention. Every single person tries to find happiness and prosperity, and the salary is not the only considered aspect. So how can we increase the loyalty and sense of belonging of your employees towards the company? By working on the no. 1 argument to increase happiness at work: atmosphere. Employees are looking for a motivating and positive atmosphere that contributes to exchanges and teamwork. But here is the snag: yes, your employees? attitude depends of the work atmosphere, but this atmosphere is greatly dependent of your employees? attitude. This is a vicious circle.

Team building activities are an affordable and efficient way to enhance work atmosphere, increase motivation and favor teamwork. With conferences, tam-tam sessions, painting and construction workshops, TV-shows inspired activities or culinary set-ups, your employees realize they are active participants to the change and they can contribute to enhance work atmosphere and their engagement towards the company. They understand you care about their wellness as well, which is very positive for employee retention. Team building can infuse notions of problem solving, communication, stress management, productivity, strategy, creativity and change management to your workers. The messages to share and notions to learn are infinite.

Team building is easy to add to your established corporate activities: meetings, social events, seminaries, etc. Kill two birds with one stone by helping employee retention within your usual activities

There is no secret: to keep your employees in your company, you need to make the first effort and search for solutions. Team building activities will always be an excellent solution to employee retention.

Martin Latulippe, 
Expert en Team Building