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How Volunteering and Community Service Can Boost Team Morale

Connecting with team members outside of work, supporting collective causes, and being more than just an organization – community service and volunteering have all the ingredients to build your team morale. Building morale has never been more important in the current state of work from home isolation, where team members are tiles on a screen to each other, and professional purpose is less apparent for many.

Employers with remote or on-premises teams wondering how to boost team morale and materialize their company culture may need to look beyond the Friday afternoons socials and birthday lunches. Volunteering days and community involvement is an excellent method of connecting your team and inspiring their vision of working at your company – so below, we’ll look at why this is the case.

1. Supportive Company Culture

Maintaining a community service and volunteering program that supports admirable causes, and hopefully, ones that your employees care about can help them feel more satisfied in their professionals and personal lives.

Your team may feel pride in their company and enjoy working for a supportive organization that cares about important issues. Meaningful work is a critical factor in a satisfying work-life, so these programs will likely boost morale, productivity, and employee retainment.

2. A Break to Do Something Good

Giving employees a day to contribute to something completely different and take a break from their regular work is a sure-fire way to boost morale and get the team excited about the project.

What’s more is that when you find the right activity and cause, employees will feel fulfilled in doing something worthwhile and rewarding and bring this attitude to their work, improving the company morale.

3. Express Themselves

Consider creating a platform where employees can share charities and events they’re passionate about supporting. This can help your team express their passions at work, helping members get to know each other while making them feel heard.

You can even give them ownership of organizing the volunteer program for their individual events or create a task force of employees to plan these days. This can all help drive engagement into the company culture and excite employees about company involvement, resulting in higher productivity and team morale.

4. Connections and Team Bonding

Work relationships are some of the most influential factors in boosting overall employee morale – we all want to spend time with people we know and connect with! Work volunteer days and community service naturally enhance team bonding and connections because working together on non-work-related tasks can take the stress out of the relationships.

Employees can feel more open and relaxed outside of a typical workday, which means they can connect more personally and get to know their team on a deeper level. Additionally, as employees work together to support these causes, they create a bond through a collective goal and shared experience. Teams will take these strengthened connections back into the office for a new and improved team culture built on support, respect, and morale.

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