Competition can be a very good thing … or it can be very bad. Encouraging competition among your employees should be done with a very careful plan. Unhealthy competition can actually be extremely detrimental to your overall company culture. Instead of fostering team work it creates an environment where everyone claws and bites their way to the top. But healthy competition can motivate employees to do work both more effectively and efficiently. Here are some tips for creating an environment where healthy competition thrives.
- Create a company vision.
It is hard to have your employees compete with one another when they don’t know what the goal is. The first step is to create a company vision statement and everything that your office does needs to be in support of that. If the competition is directly opposed to the vision you have for your organization, it might help individual employees but not the company as a whole. - Establish personal goals.
Of course, don’t ignore the personal accomplishments. While you should have team goals the very spirit of competition means that everyone has an opportunity to win. The best way to create competition without creating bad feelings to is give everyone a customized personal goal and have employees compete against one another as they accomplish these goals. - Emphasize the fun factor.
An in-office competition should be fun more than anything else. If your staff isn’t having fun with the activities involved then it is time to reevaluate and change the game. When fun competitions turn to negative experiences you can call it quits and rethink the process. In the meantime, ensure that your team has a healthy competitive spirit. - Focus on improvement.
Lastly, the primary goal of any workplace competition should be to improve. Not only should it improve each employee’s overall performance but also further the company vision, create innovation, and enhance the business offerings, products, and services. You don’t need competition to make this happen, but if you have fostered an environment where you’re hiring competitive people you should tap into that drive to make improvements to the company.
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