Your goal may be to have your domestic employees work together, but the reality is that many of them may never even see one another during their scheduled shifts, and this can cause miscommunication and inconsistencies. These strategies will help you have a positive impact on the work environment.

The Importance of a Healthy Work Environment

There are many reasons to take steps to make your household staff’s environment a more positive one.

Better Stress Management and Retention

A more positive workplace will help staff balance their personal and working lives, better manage stress, and avoid “burnout”. Ultimately, this will result in happier, healthier employees who spend far less time absent from work.

Working in a positive environment will provide longevity and retention, which increases the return of your investment.

Better Production

Another byproduct of employee satisfaction is vastly increased production; the happier your employees are, the faster and more efficiently they’ll work, and the better your home will function overall.

Higher Morale and Better Cohesiveness

Employees who feel comfortable and safe in their work environment will have improved attitudes, outlooks, and overall satisfaction with their tasks. When all employees experience this, they will be even more encouraged to work as a team to create positive working conditions, which will bring more cohesiveness.

Now that we’ve revealed the many benefits of enhancing your work environment, it’s time to reveal strategies for bringing your domestic staff together, boosting their morale, and providing them with the direction they need to achieve consistency and excellence in all they do for your household.

Honesty, Transparency and Humility

The more honest, transparent, and humble you can be with your domestic staff, the more they will respect you and their workplace. Honest, direct, and open communication will help team members identify with you.

Be transparent wherever possible and request feedback. When you receive it, a humble response and follow through will both go a long way.

Hold Regular Team Meetings

Bringing all of your domestic employees together in a team meeting can help keep everyone on the same page, and provide an opportunity for staff on different shifts to connect with one another.

Your team meeting can include announcements about upcoming events or changes they need to be aware of, the day’s or week’s agenda, and a question/discussion period so that employees have the opportunity to obtain clarification.

Online Messaging

Consider providing a place where staff can communicate with one another. This can be done in the form of an online group, where staff can stay in touch and support one another with advice and encouragement.

Expressing Gratitude

Thanking your employees for a job well done communicates that they are all important parts of your team and that they are appreciated. They will also know that you truly care about and appreciate their individual contributions.

Positive Reinforcement

Along with saying thank you, provide your domestic staff with positive reinforcement to help enhance the positivity and morale of your entire team.

Providing raises is a wonderful way to tell staff members what a great job they are doing. The same is true of bonuses.

Creating a Community

The goal of a better work environment is to bring your staff together. Even though all of your employees may not be working in your home at the same time, by creating a sense of community, they can all know they’re on the same team.

Let Staffing at Tiffanie’s Help You Build Your Dream Team

Enhancing your domestic staff’s work environment with positive reinforcement, staff areas, and other effective strategies can help to eliminate inconsistencies, miscommunication, and disconnection and make your home a great place to work.

Staffing at Tiffanie’s is a premier domestic staffing agency. We take the time to understand all of your preferences. This allows us to create a custom tailored job description unique to your need and present you top-tier, viable candidates.

Staffing at Tiffanie’s is always ready, willing, and able to offer guidance and support. Contact us today to start building or adding to your positive work environment: 866-484-5550.