If You Put Your Employees Experiences through a Prism, Do they Look like a Rainbow?

In my previous post, I shared the story of one of our Seed Services @ YellowSeeds: Colorful Employee Engagement.

We talked about the story of this seed and the pillars I built to create colorful experiences for the teams I worked with:

• Your Genuine Intention to engage them

• Communication Transparency

• Inspirational engagement

• Create colorful experiences for your teams

• Co-creating engagement spaces with your team (they are part of the solution)

We explored the first three concepts, so we will continue with the next one: Create colorful experiences for your teams.

When I said creating colorful experiences of engagement, is a METAPHOR and a FACT.

Creating a colorful experience as a METAPHOR means that you want to create spaces where people want to join you, and it is worth their time to go.

So the big question is, Who can resist colors? None one, right? So create colorful experience then.

Humans are social beings, what you create as a colorful experience should be inspiring a social interaction and connection. The deepest the connection you can create during the experience the more colorful it will be. So the questions to inspire you are:

- Are there spaces for social interaction in some of your meetings?

- How much time do you spend in social interaction during your daily meetings?

- How deep is the connection you create in those social interaction of your team?

Adding some social interaction, sharing something from your personal life, is just one aspect of making colorful experiences for your teams. There are much more.

Creating a colorful experience as a FACT means that you start adding colors to the experiences you create for your teams. In our posts about colors I shared some ideas, but let’s make a rainbow here about it:

RED Spaces: Creates a safe environment for mistakes, where nothing is dangerous. Even going farther and do small celebrations when something goes RED instead of stressful meetings with executives

ORANGE Spaces: ORANGE WALK with a colleague to spark creativity with each other

YELLOW Spaces: SHARING YELLOW is an space where each team member shares something they know to the rest of the team

GREEN Spaces: GREEN LUNCH TIMES when the team pick up a park to go for lunch at least twice a month

PINK Spaces: PINK 1:1s with your team members: these meetings are not to talk about work, they are meant to talk about the individual’s life, how is life after work, how work is impacting your personal life

SKY BLUE Spaces: SKY BLUE Listening group will invite people to practice listening skills, someone from the group will speak (share something to the group) and the rest will write what this person has conveyed as a message. The speech will go for 30 mins without slides

BLUE Spaces: BLUE TIME: before a client meeting or one with your team member/s, you are invited to imagine the experience they can have with you

VIOLET Spaces: VIOLET TIME: breaks at work to encourage employees to go for a meditation or nature contemplation

Either if you create colorful experiences as a metaphor or as a fact, never forget your genuine intention to engage with your team.

We will talk more about the other pillars of Colorful Employee Engagement in our next blog post. Stay Colorful!