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It’s a scenario that’s all-too-familiar, as employee attendance can be difficult to encourage. If you’re planning a gathering, try these techniques to “up” the employee attendance:
1. Make the Meeting Mandatory
If you really believe that employee attendance is going to be low, you can always make the meeting mandatory; however, if you do, you’ll have to figure out how to “penalize” those who don’t show up. Additionally, you’ll need to make sure there is an employee attendance sign-up sheet at the event; otherwise, someone might assert that they were there when they actually weren’t.
2. Offer Perks
There’s nothing wrong with offering special “perks” for employee attendance. For instance, if your team members come to a lunch-and-learn about sales techniques, perhaps they’ll get free pizza and will be able to leave 30 minutes early that day. Such little employee attendance “rewards” may seem juvenile, but they honestly work on people of all ages.
3. Make Meetings Enjoyable
Sometimes, the reason your employee attendance is low is because your discussions have a habit of turning into boring lectures. However, if you get a reputation for presenting dynamic give-and-take sessions, your employee attendance rate is likely to increase.
4. Assign Topic Areas
Clyde always missing meetings? Hilda often late or a “no show”? Then why not put him or her in charge of the next meeting you have? That way, the burden of employee attendance will be on someone else. And Clyde or Hilda might just have a better way of encouraging employee attendance than you.
5. Ask for Feedback
Finally, don’t forget to ask your coworkers about the waning employee attendance. You might be surprised to learn that they have creative ideas on upping employee attendance… but you’ll never know until you bring up the subject!
Category: ManagementEncouraging Employee Attendance at Optional Meetings was written by:Author:Paul AbbeyAdded: Mon, 21 May 2007 13:21:41 -0400 This Article Has Been Read 499 times View all Paul Abbey's articlesAbout the Author: P Abbey owns and operates http://www.surveyingequipmentguide.com Surveying Equipment |
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