Your team & Friday Pulse
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Using your team’s Culture Profile results
This step-by-step guide helps teams review and discuss their Friday Pulse Culture Profile results effectively.
How Friday Pulse will give you a voice
Employee voice is crucial to the success of organizations of today.
How Friday Pulse will help your team perform
Friday Pulse helps People Managers protect team morale and catch issues early.
Participating in Friday Pulse when you’re unhappy
When you're feeling unhappy at work, it can be tempting to skip Friday Pulse altogether. But it’s potentially one of the most important times to take part.
How Friday Pulse protects your anonymity
To use Friday Pulse effectively, you need to feel safe about answering honestly.
How to use your Impact Report
Use your Impact Report to improve happiness in your team and organization
Getting you and your team ready for Friday Pulse
You want to kick off with a good response rate on Friday Pulse – it’ll give you representative results of how the team is feeling.
Understanding and managing frustration at work
Frustration is a natural part of working life. It often occurs when something prevents us from achieving a goal, meeting an expectation, or working in the way we would like.
Building positive relationships at work
When we feel connected to the people around us, we're more likely to enjoy our work, collaborate effectively, support one another through challenges, and perform at our best.
Useful questions to deepen a conversation about your Culture Profile scores
Once a quarter your team will have new data points on the drivers of happiness at work. It's useful to discuss these results together.
Introducing Friday Pulse to your team
Taking time to introduce Friday Pulse before your team receives their first invitation can help answer common questions, build trust, and encourage strong participation from the start.
Why adding celebrations to Friday Pulse helps the team to perform
The science shows us that reflecting on the good stuff is important – for individuals, and for the team.
Being fair to yourself and others
Treating people fairly, showing appreciation, and respecting the fact that everyone has a life outside of work are all important parts of creating a happy workplace. But fairness isn't only about how we treat others - it's also about how we treat ourselves.
How the scoring works
Find out what the colours mean in your responses and results, as well as how your results are calculated.
Why saying thank-you is important
Appreciation is one of the key drivers of happiness at work.
Guide to leading a happy and successful team
Simple practices make a big difference. This guide helps managers turn Friday Pulse results into better teamwork and performance.
Things for teams to try: Improving Team relationships
Tips, tricks and practical examples of things others have done to improve team relationships.
Things for teams to try: Improving Team co-operation
Take a look at ways you and your team can improve cooperation with other teams
Finding the right kind of challenge in your work
Feeling challenged at work doesn’t have to mean feeling overwhelmed. The right level of challenge helps us stay engaged, continue learning, and enjoy what we do.
Reflecting on your happiness pulse results
Getting into the habit of discussing results following each pulse measure is key to maintaining response rates and looking after happiness at work.
Why sharing frustrations in Friday Pulse is important
Frustration can be… frustrating! But they can be a force for good when harnessed positively.
Things for teams to try: Improving Friendships at work
Read our suggestions for ways you and your team can foster friendships within your organization
Creating psychological safety at work
Psychological safety is one of the foundations of healthy, high-performing teams.
Looking after your mental health at work
Looking after your mental health is important at all times, but it can become particularly challenging during periods of pressure, uncertainty, change, or loss.
Why it’s a good idea to suggest an idea in Friday Pulse
Have an idea about improving things at work, but don’t feel you have the permission to offer it up? Now you do!
The value of good conversation
Meaningful conversations about happiness are essential for fostering positive workplace dynamics. By creating safe, structured discussions, you unlock insights that drive both individual well-being and organizational success
Reclaiming your power at work
Feeling able to influence your work, make decisions, use your strengths, and contribute positively to your team is part of feeling happy at work.
The Presentation view
The Presentation view in Friday has been designed to help guide you through discussing your weekly results as a team.
Things for teams to try: Improving Fairness and respect
See how your team can imrpove feelings of fairness and respect at work.
Sending a Thank-you to someone not using Friday Pulse
Thank-yous in Friday Pulse are the most commonly shared Note and now we’ve made it even easier to show your gratitude far and wide.
An active listening guide
Active listening is a key component of successful conversations.
Things for teams to try: Improving Appreciation
Take a look at our tips on upping feelings of appreciation in your team.
Finding purpose and motivation at work
When we understand why our work matters, we're more likely to feel motivated, resilient, and proud of what we do.
Things for teams to try: Improving Work-life balance
Find out the ways you and your team can look after your work-life balance.
Teams: Using your Friday Pulse results together
Measuring with Friday Pulse is only the first step in working together to look after happiness at work. Here we share the next steps to take as a team.
Sharing Ideas in Friday Pulse
Good ideas can come from anywhere. Taking a moment to share them helps your team identify opportunities, solve problems, and continuously improve the way you work together.
Ground rules for good conversations
Really get the most out of your Friday results discussion by agreeing some ground rules.
Using Slack commands in Friday Pulse
Slash commands allow you to interact with your Friday Pulse account from within Slack, without having to open the platform in your browser.
Tips for Managers: Discussing happiness each week
How to help your team open up about their feelings, and not go into “fixing” mode.
Things for teams to try: Improving Strengths
Find out how you can make the best use Strengths in your team.
Using your strengths at work
We all have different strengths, skills, and ways of working. When we're able to use our strengths regularly, we're more likely to feel confident, motivated, and engaged.
Finding the right work-life balance
Work-life balance isn't about giving equal time to work and the rest of your life.
Tips for discussing frustrations as a team
Here is a process you can use to successfully work through frustrations as a team.
Things for teams to try: Improving Free to be yourself
See what action you can take to build a team where you celebrate each other as individuals!
How to add a Note when questions are closed
You can still share feedback, comments, and your appreciation even when your questions are closed.
Top tips for successful conversations
Some points to think about or put in place to have the best happiness conversations.
Things for teams to try: Improving Influence Decisions
Improving how people influence decisions is important to their work in your team
Response scales
Why we use a 5-point scale and the science behind these scales.
Traps to avoid when talking about happiness
There’s no “right” way to approach your Friday results, but there are a few traps people can fall in to when trying to discuss their scores.
Things for teams to try: Improving Creativity
See what action you can take to improve creativity in the team!
Things for teams to try: Improving Feedback
We all need feedback - check out some tried and tested techniques for improving feedback.
Things for teams to try: Improving Learning
Here are some ways to boost your learning at work.
Things for teams to try: Improving Pride
Ways you can boost a sense of organizational pride with your team.
Things for teams to try: Improving Worthwhile work
Boost sense of the worth of your work by being more intentional about the impact you create in the world.
Things for teams to try: Improving Accomplishment
If you feel there is more friction than flow to your work, take a look at how to refocus on the things that will improve your sense of accomplishment.
Building fairness and respect at work
Feeling respected and treated fairly helps create a strong foundation for a happy and healthy workplace.