This document outlines 5 ways to build a strong office culture: 1) Promote knowledge sharing through open workspaces and peer learning. 2) Implement career growth mapping to help employees plan their career paths. 3) Gamify work tasks to increase healthy competition. 4) Conduct 360 degree reviews to gather feedback from peers and managers. 5) Conduct regular pulse surveys to gather anonymous feedback and show employees how it is used. The goal is to increase employee engagement to over 80% by creating an environment where employees love their company.

1. 5 WAYS TO BUILD
A KICKASS
OFFICE CULTURE
Engaging Workplaces, Efficient Employees
GETTING YOUR OFFICE CULTURE RIGHT
­ Omkar Pandharkame

2. CUSTOMERS WILL NEVER LOVE
YOUR COMPANY UNTIL YOUR
EMPLOYEES LOVE IT FIRST!
GET YOUR INTERNAL BRAND RIGHT

3. 88% of employees are not passionate towards work
70% employees are either not engaged or disengaged
80% employees quit for reasons besides money

4. -Knowledge Sharing
-Career Growth Mapping
-Gamification at workplaces
-360 Degree Review systems
-Employee Feedback and Pulse surveys
Engagement Hacks 2016

5. .
-Free interaction spaces within the workplace
for conversations between employees.
-Focus on peer-based learning and skill
sharing
-Document positive interactions between
employees
KNOWLEDGE SHARING

6. INCLUSIVE
GROWTH
Employees wish to know
- How far would he/she go in the next
1 year/3 year
- How much time/ projects would it
require for her to get promoted
- In what fields does he/she wished to
be trained and how would it help her
- Having an internal career counsellor
in the organization
CAREER GROWTH MAPPING

7. Gamify your Workplace!
- Measuring KPIs through a point system
- Gamified interaction between peers
- Points attached to performance
- Leaderboard system
- A company legend of what actions
would fetch you points
- Give handsome rewards to the winners
HEALTHY COMPETITION HELPS
LIFE' S A GAME!
WHY SHOULDN' T
OFFICE BE?

8. - Peer recognition matters as much as
senior recognition
-Do away with abstract feedback,
quantify it
- Document and record the rewards &
recognition and keep it public
-Include the reward & recognition in the
KPI
- Think beyond monetary reward,
customized rewards work the best
REWARD TO MOTIVATE

9. 360 DEGREE REVIEWS
- Feedback should be quantifiable. Put numbers to it
- Reverse performance interview between juniors and
seniors
- Scope to 'excel' rather scope to 'improve'. Use right set
of words
- Have a consultant to tackle grudge problems within
teams/bosses
- Maintain an employee behaviour graph chart on the
basis of the feedback

10. -Nobody likes to fill boring long surveys
- Keep it relevant, short and simple
- Avoid text input, encourage numeric
input
- More clicking and less typing during the
survey
- Be consistent about your surveys, daily
or weekly
- Show results to the employees that the
company worked on the earlier feedback
- Have scope for anonymous feedback and
suggestions
EMPLOYEE FEEDBACK AND PULSE SURVEYS
KNOW THE VOICE

11. GET CONNECTED
LinkedIn : Omkar Pandharkame
Email : Omkar@gocollab.co
twitter : @skillstreetman
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