When employee morale is low, your team will feel it. They’ll suffer from poor performance, lack of motivation, and even a deep dissatisfaction with their job that leads to increased turnover.

When employee morale is high, your team will enjoy stronger bonds, a deeper sense of camaraderie, and a willingness to cooperate that wasn’t there before.

In this article, the workforce-management experts at Sling give you tips to boost employee morale for a better work environment.

Pro Tips to Boost Employee Morale

1) Hire a Diverse Team

Diversity plays an important role in improving employee morale throughout your organization. Business as a whole is becoming more global every day. Hiring a diverse team gives you access to those markets like never before.

2) Promote Team Cohesion

Cohesion, cooperation, and unity are the heart and soul of all successful teams. When your business feels like a group of people working toward a common goal rather than individuals just trying to get stuff done, employee morale will skyrocket.

3) Ask for Employee Feedback

Asking for — and listening to — feedback from your team is a powerful tool for boosting employee morale. When your team sees that you take their suggestions seriously, they’re more likely to feel valued and like they’re a part of a family rather than just someone who shows up, does a job, and leaves.

4) Onboard New Hires Successfully

Don’t view onboarding as something you need to get through before you can get back to the “real” work of managing your team. Instead, view it as a way to boost employee morale like never before.

5) Give Employees the Tools They Need

There’s nothing more frustrating — and a bigger hit to employee morale — than not having the resources to do your job effectively and efficiently. So, make sure your employees have those resources!

6) Delineate Responsibilities

To be happy, productive, and enjoy high morale, your team needs a clear set of responsibilities that every employee abides by.

7) Establish Clear Guidelines and Procedures

Guidelines and standard operating procedures are the foundation on which your team — and your business — operates. Establish clear procedures and instructions for everything that has to do with your business.

The Best Tool to Improve Employee Morale

At its most basic, employee morale depends on communication. It doesn’t matter if that communication revolves around scheduling, inventory, clocking in and out, ethics, or customer service.

We developed the Sling app for just that — to streamline communication and improve employee morale in every corner of your business.

Sling is a suite of integrated tools that makes scheduling, tracking labor, finding substitutes, assigning tasks, and building employee morale extremely simple. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

For more free resources to help you manage your business better, organize and schedule your team, and track and calculate labor costs, visit GetSling.com today.