Seeking Your Ideas: How Can I Make Our Daily Employee Insights More Engaging?

Hi, I have been sending "Insight of the Day" daily to all employees for the last 4-5 months now. A few of them had problems with my email on the first day and still face the same issue. However, a number of employees are happy with my emails and ask me to continue sending them. In fact, if I am late sending my usual email, they call to check if I am in the office and say, "Please mark your attendance for the day." This motivates me to keep sending emails to everyone.

Schedule for Daily Insights

However, I also found it monotonous to send Motivational Insights daily. Therefore, I decided to create a schedule and divided the days into the following topics:

- Monday = Motivational
- Tuesday = Motivational
- Wednesday = News of the Day
- Thursday = Health Tips of the Day
- Friday = Joke of the Day
- Saturday = Puzzle

I would like to request all of you to provide suggestions on my schedule to make it more engaging and impactful.

Thank you.

Let me first compliment you on proactively starting this initiative of sending motivational inputs daily to your employees. You also deserve kudos for identifying the problem of boredom, realizing the impact of your initiative and the motivation given by employee feedback, and most of all for working out a solution to your problem. It is equally important that you also solve the issue of some employees not receiving your inputs.

Suggestions for Improvement

You have outlined a possible solution which, to my mind, is an excellent one. My suggestions for you to explore further options are as follows:

1. The second motivational input can be shared on Thursday instead of Tuesday, and shift the Thursday input to Tuesday.

2. It would also help if you have some broad categories for the week so that all inputs, be it a motivational input or a joke or puzzle, relate to that category. These categories could be based on functional activities like production, marketing, finance, etc., or based on themes like environment, team building, quality, etc. This categorization need not be shared with the recipients but is merely to help you identify the right inputs for the week.

3. To get more inputs without straining yourself, you could enlist the support of some of your colleagues who give you positive feedback to share inputs they have got from other sources. The best way is to find out if any of them could also volunteer to work out the inputs for the week based on a theme. For example, you could get a person from marketing to prepare all inputs for the week related to marketing. It is very important that you give credit to the person contributing so that it motivates him/her as well as others to volunteer.

4. I would also suggest that you have a stock of material for a month on hand so that in case a volunteer is unable to contribute on time or you are on leave or run into writer's block/sourcing block, you still have inputs to share.

Additional Resources

May I also invite you to visit the following Inspirational and Motivational blogs which could also provide you with some additional inputs and trigger fresh ideas and perspectives for you to explore:

- www.actspot.wordpress.com
- www.poweract.blogspot.com

Best Wishes

Dear Durgesh, it is a valid point that people should be involved and be a part of any program to achieve success. Therefore, it's important to dedicate at least one day for the employees. Let's name it "Your Own Contribution Day." In case no one comes forward, you can always fill in the gap. Remember to give recognition to those who contribute.

Regards, V. Raghunathan

I appreciate your initiative, but instead of having two consecutive days of motivational insight, allocate one day for others as suggested by Raghunathan.

Please add video sessions too, which can really connect them personally and move them to a different space.

All the best,
Kalyan