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.

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.

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.

How Friday Pulse protects your anonymity

To use Friday Pulse effectively, you need to feel safe about answering honestly.

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.

How to use your Impact Report

Use your Impact Report to improve happiness in your team and organization

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

Short answers to the most common questions

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.

Things for teams to try: Improving Team relationships

Tips, tricks and practical examples of things others have done to improve team relationships.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Why sharing frustrations in Friday Pulse is important

Frustration can be… frustrating! But they can be a force for good when harnessed positively.

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 Friendships at work

Read our suggestions for ways you and your team can foster friendships within your organization

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.

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.

Things for teams to try: Improving Fairness and respect

See how your team can imrpove feelings of fairness and respect 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.

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 Appreciation

Take a look at our tips on upping feelings of appreciation in your team.

An active listening guide

Active listening is a key component of successful conversations.

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.

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.

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.

Ground rules for good conversations

Really get the most out of your Friday results discussion by agreeing some ground rules.

Things for teams to try: Improving Work-life balance

Find out the ways you and your team can look after your work-life balance.

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.

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 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 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.

Things for teams to try: Improving Creativity

See what action you can take to improve creativity in the team!

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 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.

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.

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.

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!