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.
How to use your Impact Report
Use your Impact Report to improve happiness in your team and organization
How Friday Pulse protects your anonymity
To use Friday Pulse effectively, you need to feel safe about answering honestly.
Top tips on applying positive emotions in the workplace
Here are our top tips on creating a happier environment for you and your team:
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.
Things for teams to try: Improving Creativity
See what action you can take to improve creativity in the team!
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.
Introducing Friday Pulse to your team
Short answers to the most common questions
Things for teams to try: Improving Pride
Ways you can boost a sense of organizational pride with your team.
Top tips for recovering from burnout
Here are our tips to recovering from burnout.
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.
How the scoring works
Find out what the colours mean in your responses and results, as well as how your results are calculated.
Why sharing frustrations in Friday Pulse is important
Frustration can be… frustrating! But they can be a force for good when harnessed positively.
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.
Tips for sharing Ideas in Friday
Find out the best way to share your Ideas to help make work more enjoyable, better or easier for you and your team.
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.
Top tips on creating an environment of psychological safety
Here are our top tips on how to create an environment where your team can feel free to share their ideas and thoughts about work.
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!
Things for teams to try: Improving Fairness and respect
See how your team can imrpove feelings of fairness and respect at work.
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.
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
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 Strengths
Find out how you can make the best use Strengths in your team.
Things for teams to try: Improving Feedback
We all need feedback - check out some tried and tested techniques for improving feedback.
The Presentation view
The Presentation view in Friday has been designed to help guide you through discussing your weekly results as a team.
Top tips for understanding your feelings
Understanding your own feelings is crucial to helping build emotional intelligence.
An active listening guide
Active listening is a key component of successful conversations.
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.
Top tips for building resilience when facing loss
Our Five Ways to Happiness at Work framework can help identify positive daily actions to build our resilience and improve how we cope with loss.
Ground rules for good conversations
Really get the most out of your Friday results discussion by agreeing some ground rules.
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.
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 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.
Tips for discussing frustrations as a team
Here is a process you can use to successfully work through frustrations as a team.
How to add a Note when questions are closed
You can still share feedback, comments, and your appreciation even when your questions are closed.
Response scales
Why we use a 5-point scale and the science behind these scales.
Top tips for successful conversations
Some points to think about or put in place to have the best happiness conversations.
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 Free to be yourself
See what action you can take to build a team where you celebrate each other as individuals!
Things for teams to try: Improving Appreciation
Take a look at our tips on upping feelings of appreciation in your team.
Things for teams to try: Improving Team co-operation
Take a look at ways you and your team can improve cooperation with other teams
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.
Things for teams to try: Improving Learning
Here are some ways to boost your learning at work.
Things for teams to try: Improving Influence Decisions
Improving how people influence decisions is important to their work in your team
Things for teams to try: Improving Friendships at work
Read our suggestions for ways you and your team can foster friendships within your organization
Things for teams to try: Improving Work-life balance
Find out the ways you and your team can look after your work-life balance.
How to maintain your core (relationships) while working remotely
How well people cope during difficult times is dependent on the quality of the relationships they have with friends, family and work colleagues.
Top tips on giving each other the freedom to use your strengths
Unleash the potential in your team by following some of our positive daily actions to use your strengths at work.
Top tips on improving fairness and respect at work
Taking a few positive actions regularly can help improve fairness and respect at work. Here are some of our top Be Fair tips. Which do you need to embrace as a team? Table it for discussion or add it as an Idea to your Friday flow next week!
Improve your happiness at work, whatever your role
To enhance your workday, there are simple actions you can take that boost both your wellbeing and productivity.
Top tips on being fair to yourself (& to your colleagues)
Be Fair is a foundational element of our Five Ways to Happines at Work framework. Take a look at some positive daily actions you can take to be fair to yourself, and to your colleagues.
Participating in Friday Pulse when you’re unhappy
Why it’s still worthwhile sharing how you feel, when how you feel is awful.
Finding the right work-life balance
Friday Pulse has always been about making the world of work better. However, recently things have made it difficult for everyone (even us) to find the right balance in work/life.
Taking care of your mental health at work
Here are some actions you can take to help you sustain energy and boost overall happiness especially during times of uncertainty.
Top tips on improving the way we interact with others at work
Here are a few positive daily actions you can take to build your relationships, one interaction at a time.
Top tips for reclaiming your power at work
Empowering ourselves is something that's particularly important at the moment, when working patterns have changed and continue to shift - here are some positive actions you can take.
Top Tips for finding opportunities for positive change
Find opportunities for positive change using daily actions based on our Five Ways to Happiness at Work framework.
Top tips to lessen emotional and cognitive drain
Our Five Ways to Happiness at Work framework can help identify positive daily actions to lessen how emotionally and cognitively drained we may feel. Here are this week's tips to help teams stay sane and thrive.
Top tips on challenging yourself at work
Take a look at some of the positive actions you can take to maintain and improve your Challenge scores. Spot something for the team? Suggest it when you review your results or add it as an Idea to your Friday flow next week!
Top tips on recognizing your purpose at work
Here are some positive actions you can take to recapture and sustain a sense of purpose.
Top tips to foster and sustain great working relationships
Connect is the first of our Five Ways to Happiness at Work framework. These tips will help you foster and sustain great working relationships. Take ideas you like to your next team meeting.