We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, work culture matters if you want to attract talent, retain your best people, increase productivity and ultimately grow a successful company. Here are 50 culture boosting ideas to inspire your team!

1. Use digital signage to feature people
2. Leverage a peer recognition program
3. Ask your team for feedback – and listen
4. Focus on wellness, mental and physical
5. Support local charities
6. Create an in-house culture committee!
7. Offer coaching, training and continuous learning
8. Create social spaces for gathering
9. Focus on food, whether you offer if for free, subsidize it or just focus on creating a great space for people to gather and eat together
10. Make on-boarding a personal and entire team experience
11. Hire for your culture type
12. Fire for your culture type
13. Encourage goal setting for the company and for the people in it
14. Have a clear vision and mission
15. Leverage a preferences sheets, here’s how that works. New hire starts and fills out a form asking them all their favorite things, drink, snack, restaurant and treats. The form is then made available to rest of team. When the new hire does something awesome for a colleague, the colleague gets the new teammate something they love as a thank you!
16. Tell your story through branding
17. Care, and do it genuinely
18. Connect to family
19. Be transparent
20. Be flexible where you can
21. Consider a team mascot
22. Team lunches
23. Get offsite. Thinking outside the office is often a great way to think outside the box
24. Walking meetings
25. Games in the office
26. Promote intrapreneurship – where employees are encouraged to pursue entrepreneurial creativity and innovation
27. Harness the best technology
28. Embrace criticism
29. Focus on the customer – great customer experience leads to great culture
30. Offer a career path – and help employees stay on it
31. Discover employee advocacy – where you empower your employees to take your message to market
32. Offer perks where possible, but please remember to perk responsibly
33. Reward people
34. Consider internship programs!
35. Feature the expertise of your people in your content
36. Remember to enjoy what you do, have fun!
37. Meditate
38. Recognize and promote loyalty
39. Design your workspace around your culture type: create, collaborate, control and create
40. Allow for adequate privacy
41. Never settle, always be testing, experimenting, innovating and growing
42. Make sure meetings make sense. Too many meetings for too long and too often can kill culture
43. Communicate clearly
44. To that end, consider creating a culture handbook.
45. Encourage healthy competition and sportsmanship in the office
46. Cocktails, beer and wine
47. Cultivate real and lasting relationships between team members
48. Dedicate time and effort to culture, it deserves your attention
49. Be patient, culture takes time and cant’ be forced
50. Call BOS

BOS can help you identify your culture type using some incredible tools and research from Haworth. Our skilled team can help you design, furnish and install a space that is right for your team and culture. Our inhouse digital agency, Workspace Digital, can also help you implement some of ideas like the ones in this video and uncover new ways to promote your culture at work.