Federating a team means creating links in a professional group. Well-being at work, common values, group cohesion are all essential common denominators in order to get there. And today, the company's commitment to solidarity has also become a growing motivator for employees.

In this article, discover several ways to unite a team and strengthen ties around solidarity, between your employees but also with associations and beneficiary audiences.

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The importance of uniting a team

Bringing your team together is one of the most important roles of a manager. This involves a multitude of important actions such as defining clear objectives and a common direction for everyone (and especially for newcomers), setting up moments of communication jointly and individually, preventing conflicts before they occur...

The manager's role is to ensure that each member of the team can thrive individually, but also collectively with the entire group.

Moreover, according to a survey carried out in 2022 by the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, Macif and the BVA Institute, one of the main missions of the company is to ensure their professional development according to young people.

40% of them believe that the main role of a company is to give its employees the means to develop professionally

Ensuring that your team advances collectively is also an excellent way to achieve common goals and to progress together in good intelligence. A close-knit team is also a team that shares common values! Here are some tips for uniting your team around solidarity commitment.

Also find out how solidarity commitment attracts and retains talent !

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Our 5 tips for uniting your team around solidarity commitment

Finding the right balance between formal and informal moments

Formal moments of exchange mean team meetings or individual exchanges with each member of their team. Informal moments are more established in company meeting places: at the coffee machine, at the breakfast table or even during an aperitif at the end of the day.

To make solidarity topics an integral part of your daily life and promote employee engagement, be sure to talk about them regularly, both in formal and informal moments.

Need some tips for initiating informal discussions about solidarity? For example, you can organize an aperitif in a third place or plan your next team lunch in a solidarity canteen.

There are 1001 ways to unite your team around solidarity and thus develop a sense of well-being at work. The key is to identify the actions that correspond to your values and above all, to the desires of your employees. Ask them for their opinion!

Take care to listen to the members of your teams, in an equivalent way, and especially to the people whose voices would be lower.

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Communicate effectively

In this age of full remote and digital technology, it is all the more important to maintain the most human exchanges possible with your teams.

Everyone has their own sensitivity, words written or exchanged by videoconference can sometimes be interpreted in very different ways depending on the characters of each person. Moments of informal exchanges, discussions, debates... will all be necessary to understand everyone's difficulties and to prevent possible frictions and crises.

To have a communication posture centered on solidarity, it is important to communicate with empathy. Not all members of your team will have the same sensitivity to solidarity commitment.

Some may never have carried out field missions with associations. In any case, it is important to support each employee with an open mind. This works thanks to participatory management, which gives everyone the opportunity to express themselves.

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Setting an example

Whether you are a leader, manager or CEO of a company, you must set an example for your teams. You are the first guarantor of compliance with the rules, values and the framework of reference that have been established.

Ensure that these elements are well communicated to newcomers and that they are respected throughout the year, especially during times of crisis.

Is a solidarity action organized in the company? It is important that you communicate about this project beforehand, in order to embody it widely with your employees. On D-Day, your presence will also be essential. Remember to block your agenda for these important moments.

Consider being supported by a solidarity engagement platform such as Komeet to structure the approach and facilitate its deployment.

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Bringing values to life through solidarity actions

Today, more than ever, employees need to find meaning at work. This concept is particularly essential for young workers, who are increasingly anxious to align their personal beliefs with their professional life.

Committing to causes linked to company values and supporting associations in the field in various ways throughout the year is therefore another excellent way to unite teams and create links around great solidarity actions.

A multitude of engagement formats are possible, whether it is actions in the field such as marauding, financial donations or even a corporate mentoring program via an association.

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Celebrating successes

Finally, recognizing work and celebrating victories are also great ways to unite your team.

Have you just launched a call for projects for the benefit of several associations? Are you celebrating the first year of your solidarity program? Did part of your team mobilize to carry out a field mission with an association?

Communicate on these successes and take the opportunity to bring your employees together around moments of sharing and conviviality. Unifying effects guaranteed!

You now have several keys in hand to instill a new dynamic of solidarity in your team.

There is no shortage of ideas for uniting your team and we could obviously have mentioned more than 5. However, the key is to maintain consistency in all of the company's actions. Solidarity must take place at all levels.

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