Here are a selection of our favourite pieces of advice collected from many experts to add that essential va va voom to your teams.

1.  During company away days, a tried a tested way of revving up your teams, ask your staff about their ‘Perfect working day’.  Companies that have taken this approach ask for creativity and promise to consider all requests.  So far they have implemented free cakes on a Friday, fresh flowers in the meeting rooms and a green team being set up to increase the companies green credentials.

2.  A similar principle to number 1 above, holding a hack day; where staff and managers have the opportunity to generate informal ideas and hold discussion forums.  This way staff get a sense of fully understanding the direction of the company and as a result feel more engaged in their role.

3.  How about this for a great idea.  Rewarding staff is key to staff retention and keeping staff highly motivated to perform at their best.  Offer your staff ‘Me Days’ , for extra effort, reward staff with an extra leave day.

4. Taking this to the next level, you could link your performance reviews to an incentive scheme.  An excellent idea, is to have results rewarded by paying into a fund for employees to use for foreign holidays.  If the employee can get an annual trip to somewhere exotic, like Dubai for performing well, it figures that employees will work harder to achieve it and it will help with retention.

5.  A personal plea now… if you are going to have a reward event for your staff, please make sure you use the nicest venue your budget will allow.  The perception of being spoiled is 50% of the day for most employees.  If you take them to a tatty place, it doesn’t do wonders for the first impressions.  We can invariably get a reduced rate for hotels if you book through us.

6. Offering training to your employees is an important way of keeping staff interested in and motivated by their jobs.  It is important to maintain training even when times are tough.  Training needs to be fun – you absorb more if you are enjoying yourself.  Make all training interactive and entertaining.