Team Building Tips

Maintaining a happy, productive workforce in a slow economy can be tough. Employees are nervous about their future and are looking for reassurance and job security. And with businesses cutting employee perks and benefits in an effort to save money, it's become increasingly harder to give employees that comfortable feeling they're looking for. An inexpensive perk many companies may have overlooked is Casual Fridays.

To help keep your best workers around, consider implementing some of these initiatives.

Turn on any nightly newscast and you will hear the doom-and-gloom predictions of an economic recession just around the corner. Reactions inside organizations run the gamut from "Things are great. Go Team Go!" to "Stop all spending now!" based on manager leadership styles and their comfort level with potential high-risk changes. One of the first places you will be asked to curtail expenses often affects the very people who keep your business going...Team Members.

Employee Engagement is difficult to define, but can be described as employees acting in the best interests of the company they work for.