{"id":2660,"date":"2019-05-23T13:39:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T17:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theunstucklife.co\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2022-12-16T07:58:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T12:58:56","slug":"are-you-creating-moments-for-your-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/are-you-creating-moments-for-your-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you creating MOMENTS for your employees?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2660\" class=\"elementor elementor-2660\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1a9f70bb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1a9f70bb\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-55be029c\" data-id=\"55be029c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-322900ae elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"322900ae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f28295f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f28295f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>If you look back on your working life, what memories stand out the most? Chances are you\u2019ll remember specific moments that have come to define how you feel about a particular role or organization. These moments are called \u2018peak\u2019 moments and happen throughout our working lives.\u00a0They are also super powerful, so as leaders, managers, and team members, why don\u2019t we make an effort to create more of them? Why do we miss so many opportunities to create meaningful moments that have such\u00a0extraordinary impacts on others?<br \/><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/are-you-creating-moments-for-your-employees\/#more-2660\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading Are you creating MOMENTS for your employees?\">(more&hellip;)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look back on your working life, what memories stand out the most? Chances are you\u2019ll remember specific moments that have come to define how you feel about a particular role or organization. These moments are called \u2018peak\u2019 moments and happen throughout our working lives.\u00a0They are also super powerful, so as leaders, managers, and team members, why don\u2019t we make an effort to create more of them? Why do we miss so many opportunities to create meaningful moments that have such\u00a0extraordinary impacts on others?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOur team recently finished reading\u00a0<em>The Power of Moments\u00a0<\/em>by brothers Chip and Dan Heath and all I can say is.. WOW, how inspirational! The Heath Brothers discuss how\u00a0<strong>MOMENTS<\/strong>\u00a0at work tend to arise from one of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Transitions<\/strong>\u2013 An employee\u2019s first day at work, a promotion, the end of a project<\/li>\n<li><strong>Milestones<\/strong>\u2013 Long service landmarks, retirement, the recognition of key achievements<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pits<\/strong>\u2013 Employees facing bereavement, stress, or even a poor performance review<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is these\u00a0<strong>MOMENTS<\/strong>\u00a0that are a unique opportunity to transform the employee experience and build engagement, yet we often fail to take advantage of them. With a little effort, we can create powerful\u00a0<strong>MOMENTS<\/strong>\u00a0that linger long in our employees\u2019 memories. The recipe for success, according to the Heath brothers, involves one or more of the following \u2018ingredients\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>1. Moments of\u00a0<strong>ELEVATION<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0These moments \u2018break the script\u2019 and\u00a0are unexpected.<br \/>\n2. Moments of\u00a0<strong>INSIGHT<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; These moments result in an &#8220;a-ha&#8221; moment for people.<br \/>\n3. Moments of\u00a0<strong>PRIDE<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; These moments are where recognition is given, which is crucial.<br \/>\n4. Moments of\u00a0<strong>CONNECTION<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; These moments bring colleagues and teammates together and deepen the\u00a0relationship between them.<\/p>\n<p>Our goal for this year as a company\u00a0is\u00a0to create\u00a0<strong>MOMENTS<\/strong>\u00a0for our team by developing an intentional strategy to help everyone feel connected to our strong company culture. We have been and will continue to utilize the Heath Brother\u2019s approach and encourage you to do the same. Here is a recent example of how we\u2019ve done this.<\/p>\n<p>We created the \u2018Blue Box\u2019 strategy where every quarter our employees will be hand delivered a Blue Box full of our company\u2019s branded SWAG. These items will be seasonal and will change every quarter. On each employee\u2019s first day a Blue Box is delivered to them with a handwritten note signed by our corporate team letting them know how excited we are to have them.\u00a0<strong>(ELEVATION)\u00a0<\/strong>Our hope is that this will create a sense of belonging from the very beginning of their employment and may even cause them to have an \u201ca-ha\u201d moment.\u00a0<strong>(INSIGHT)<\/strong>\u00a0We recognize every employee\u2019s\u00a0birthday\u00a0and we\u00a0send them a gift card and note on their birthday\u00a0letting them know how much we appreciate them and how valuable they are to our team.\u00a0<strong>(PRIDE)<\/strong>\u00a0We host employee parties twice a year and encourage everyone on our team to bring their spouses and children with them to the event. It is our hope that through this time together, our employees\u2019 families will learn that they are also a part of our team.\u00a0(<strong>CONNECTION)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I do not know what will work best to create\u00a0<strong>MOMENTS<\/strong>\u00a0for your employees, but I do know the importance of doing so. These moments will drive your employees to be more engaged, satisfied, and will hopefully lead them to be loyal to your organization for years to come. I challenge you to consider what this process of creating\u00a0<strong>MOMENTS<\/strong>\u00a0for your team looks like and work to implement them, very soon. I think you will be very pleased with the impact this has on your team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[83,136,85,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapsolutions.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}