1. Bring your customers in

Help them get clarity on why your company exists and how it is impacting lives directly or indirectly. Have some of your best customers come in and share their stories and talk about how your product or service helps them do what they do better.

2. Set a job creation goal

Instead of just setting goals for more money, inspire your employees with a cause. For instance, the cause could be to take part in turning around the economy one new job at a time by having an internal goal to increase headcount by 10. The cause gives them something to wake up for, but it also means that we have collectively have to figure out how to increase profits.

3. Host team board meetings

Instead of making employee reviews 1-on-1, have them be team-based. Every 6 months, employee have to publicly articulate the 3 ways they added value in the past 6 months and how they envision themselves creating value going forward.

4. Allow them to have passion projects

Google allows engineers to spend 20% of their time on a passion project. Out of that has come Gmail and Google Maps. This same philosophy can be applied to non-technology environments. Allow your employees to spend 2-3 hours a week on an internal passion project or problem that they think will help the company.

5. Help them coordinate social events

If you asks, your employees may have passions or hobbies that they like to share, but they are hesitant to mix personal and professional. Perhaps a few of them like yoga, running, knitting, biking, or poker. While they might be able to find others who share their passion naturally over time, you can help facilitate that process be encouraging each employee to host a group event around their passion after work or on the weekend.