Is Your Team Understimulated? Try a Different Kind of Job Crafting.

If your team is feeling understimulated or like they're not learning or developing any new professional skills, what can you do as a manager? Task trading is a type of job crafting that enables people to learn new skills by swapping some small activities with their teammates. It involves shifting your focus from the work of each individual team member to the work of the team as a whole. Research shows that disengaged employees can fuel burnout among their teammates. Task trading can boost engagement. By giving your employees the autonomy to customize their own career paths and select the skills they want to learn, you can reengage an unmotivated team. It can also result in a more productive, adaptable, and resourceful team. When your employees use the tasks of their coworkers to upskill, everyone wins. Your team members learn something new while also contributing to the productivity of the group. In addition, when absences or resignations occur, the team is more adaptable because skills are shared across more than one individual.