If you want to pull everyone together within your office and ensure that the business succeeds, you need one thing - team spirit.
Team spirit is a sense of positivity and ‘all for one, and one for all’ which exists within a group of people. This means that they’re all working towards the same thing, they all care about the overall aim, and that aim is more likely to happen as a result.
Of course, you can’t simply click your fingers and have everyone working at the stand height tables suddenly be filled with a sense of team spirit, it is something which needs nurturing and certain things need to fall into place in order to make it happen.
Team spirit relies heavily upon morale. There are many ways you can boost morale within your office, but you also need to ensure that everyone knows what they’re supposed to be aiming for too. It is these two elements which create team spirit overall, but the ways to actually get there are quite subtle.
Before we get into those details, check out this infographic which highlights exactly why team spirit works.
Source - https://info.4imprint.com/infographic/why-team-spirit-works-infographic/
In order to get the point where you have a high sense of team spirit within your office, and from those sitting at their high stools you should concentrate on the following:
Ensure You Have a Clear Mission Statement
Everyone needs to know what the aim of the team is, and why. When people aren’t sure what they’re working towards or why they’re trying so hard, the productivity stops and everything starts to slow right down. Having a clear mission statement and ensuring that everyone understands their role and the aims in the bigger picture will ensure that team spirit prevails.
Focus on Making Your Employees Feel Good
Morale is vitally important in the workplace, and that means ensuring that those sitting at their mesh office chairs feel valued and listened to. Team spirit is going to go out of the window or fail to even get off the ground unless you help your staff to feel good about their job and that they’re highly valued.
Involve your employees in decisions, keep them informed at all times, and help to develop a family feel in your office too. By doing this, everyone feels like they belong, and they’ll work over and above for the good of the team.
Make Sure Everyone Shares The Same Vision
Aside from everyone knowing what the mission statement and aims are, you also need to make sure that everyone believes in it. The vision has to be shared otherwise it’s just another task or job which needs to be done in order to be paid. That’s not the way to focus on developing team spirit!
Again, ask for opinions and make sure that you listen to them and assess whether they’re likely to work. This can be anything from working out a new office desking system to a huge new brand relaunch. Ask for suggestions, explore them together, and make sure everyone feels a certain amount of professional passion for the route ahead. You can do this by focusing on that morale issue we just talked about, and helping to create a sense of belonging in your office too.
Team spirit is something which will get your business through hard times, which surely come at some time or another. It will also ensure that any small misunderstandings or conflicts are overcome quickly and it will cultivate new ideas and suggestions too.
Without team spirit, everyone is pulling in a totally different direction, which does nothing for productivity. When everyone shares the same vision and knows what their aims are, the results are always positive, and always help a business to push forward and be more productive overall.
Do you think your office team spirit is high, or could it do with a little work?