When your people aren’t engaged, missed goals can often be a problem within the team. This problem can lead to issues that can splinter your business. Managers must ensure their teams feel secure and build trust within the organization. To boost confidence and morale, consider these strategies to engage discontented teammates and actively improve employee morale.

1. Ask For & Give Feedback

Communicating with your employees can ensure their morale is up rather than down. Holding one-on-one and quarterly feedback sessions shows your team that you value their input and encourages them to engage with your feedback. Consider using an external party to survey your teams for unbiased feedback on unspoken issues affecting morale.

2. Get to Know Your Team

Building personal relationships with your team fosters trust and shows you care about them beyond work. Discussing shared interests, family updates, or weekend sports can help you connect better with others and create a friendlier atmosphere in the organization.

3. Training & Career Progression

Working with your people individually can reveal tons about their wants and needs. Many want to build their careers and acquire more skills to grow their toolset. Identify what skills and paths your employees are interested in through discussions and utilization of feedback sessions and deliver appropriate training classes based on the desires of your people.

4. Recognize All Success, No Matter How Small

Celebrate ALL success! Recognizing your people is essential for showing them that you care. You should always reward a great job with praise, at the very least, but you can always make a big deal about a win, no matter how small. 

5. Focus on Collaboration & Communication

Making sure your people are working together as well as working with you is another way to help boost employee morale. Building that comradery through team building activities and fun events can help an employee see the team as more than just a job, but as more of another family!

Utilizing these tips, you can help bring your low employee morale into a new way of thinking and turn their state of mind around to create a new culture and environment that everyone wants to work within.