High morale can make a tangible difference in the lives of your employees. According to Fast Company, employees with high job satisfaction sleep better at night, which leads to other healthy behaviors like eating well, working out, and better focus.
These benefits of high employee morale roll over as advantages for the company, too. Healthy employees come to work more often and are more dedicated, creative and innovative on the job … which all improve the business outcome.
As noted by The Houston Chronicle, “Companies and teams with high morale are unmistakable in the workplace. When others are struggling to get the bare minimum done, these teams often excel with ease, exceeding expectations and do it all with a smile on their face. Many leaders wonder how to get their organizations or teams to the place where work feels fun and almost effortless. Boosting morale can have this desirable effect, leading your organization to excellence and better-than-expected growth.”
There are many factors that can affect employee morale, and unfortunately organizations cannot influence them all. However, it is important to take steps to boost job happiness, or engagement, productivity, and talent retention will all fade away.
5 Ways to Boost Morale for Color Professionals
It is important for employees to feel valued and supported. Not having the right tools, guidance, or knowledge to do a job is frustrating and leads to mistakes. By investing in employee success and development, leaders send the message that their employees are important, which can be very motivating.
Here are some ways employers can take care of color professionals to create a happy and productive work environment.
1) Supply the Proper Tools for the Job
Everyone sees color differently, which can cause even the most conscientious employees to make color judgment errors. Without color measurement hardware and software, employees are left to make subjective decisions, which can lead to incorrect color, customer rejections, and low performance reviews.
Learn more about how we perceive color and why color measurement devices and controlled lighting are important tools for color professionals in our color perception blog series.
2) Maximize Your Technology Investment
Trying to work with a slow or malfunctioning device is frustrating, and over time can lead to poor employee morale. Although color measurement devices are built to last, you need to take care of them. Just like your car, you must follow a scheduled maintenance plan to keep your color measurement device working as it should. This includes keeping the device clean, calibrating regularly, maintaining ISO compliance. Learn more in our Caring for your Spectrophotometer blog.
When outdated devices get in the way of accurate color, make the upgrade. It will pay off in employee efficiency and satisfaction.
3) Establish Standard Operating Procedures
A confident employee is a productive employee. Creating standard operating procedures for color control tasks can help your employees maximize productivity and ensure everyone is doing things the same between shifts and sites for better consistency.
Think there’s room to improve your processes? Our Solution Architects are available to come to your site and offer in-depth color training and support to save you time and money and help your team perform at its best. Learn more about color consultation.
4) Offer Resources to Improve Their Daily Tasks
There are many ways to support your employees so they can complete their jobs with less frustration. Here are few things color professionals will appreciate:
- Color Vision Testing: Color vision testing ensures everyone who is evaluating color can discern color differences. The Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Test, or FM100 Hue Test for short, is a highly effective method for evaluating an individual's color acuity.
- Device Optimization Tools: Solutions like NetProfiler can verify all color measurement devices are working as they should, which in turn gives employees confidence that the tasks they are performing are on target.
- Device Management Dashboard: X-Rite Link takes care of the manual management of color measurement devices so employees can focus on the profitable parts of their jobs rather than maintaining spreadsheets and tracking down devices.
5) Provide Ongoing Training
Knowledge is power, and it doesn’t have to be expensive or time consuming. Offering timely training to employees shows them you are invested in their success. X-Rite offers a range of options to learn more about color theory, industry best practices, and how to use color measurement solutions to optimize productivity.
- Fundamentals Series: FOCA (link to fundamentals-family) is the world’s leading color essentials series to gain a solid foundation in color and appearance science and is the basis of a good color control program. This series is offered in a variety of formats, including onsite, online, and in person, for every learning style.
- Free Webinars: We offer a library of hundreds of free webinars on our website. Encourage your employees to browse or offerings for just-in-time learning and sign up for our email list to hear about upcoming webinars.
- X-Rite Learning Center: Take some time to browse our education and training offerings to learn how to specify, communicate, design, and produce accurate color. From color consultation to remote training whitepapers, case studies and the color blog, you can find exactly what you need, when you need it.
- Social Media: We regularly share new industry trends, color measurement resources, and promotional opportunities on social media. Be sure to follow X-Rite on LinkedIn!
What Our Customers Have to Say
We recently sent a survey to our customers asking for feedback on their experience with our products. Of the customers surveyed:
- 73% reported that our products have features that make their job easier,
- 70% surveyed reported that our products helped streamline their color workflow, and
- 65% reported that our products were easy/fairly easy to start using.
We pride ourselves on the success of our customers. We invite you to get in touch to learn how we can help you boost employee morale and color measurement success.
