You Are the Key As a manager, you play a key role in keeping your employees motivated from the time they’re recruited, to the day of their retirement. As a manager, you are their role model. If you are not motivated, how can you expect your employees to be? When you show up at work [...]
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As a manager, you play a key role in keeping your employees motivated from the time they’re recruited, to the day of their retirement. As a manager, you are their role model.
If you are not motivated, how can you expect your employees to be? When you show up at work in a grouchy mood, it creates a doom-and-gloom atmosphere that ripples across your workplace. Lower productivity, job dissatisfaction, and disgruntled employees are more than likely to result.
Increase your team’s motivation by surrounding yourself with optimistic individuals and promoting a positive climate. Positive people see the potential benefits of every failure. Failures should create opportunities, not misery.
Make sure you have fun
Keep your employees motivated by holding fun events that bring everyone together for an activity that isn’t work-related. Treat your employees to a professional sporting event, or schedule a company picnic.
Be easy to talk to
This isn’t going to cut it. What else can you offer? Think intangible. Flickr/net_efekt
Open communication plays a key role in keeping your employees motivated. Make it easy for them to talk with you face-to-face. Being personable makes people feel secure and appreciated, and human interaction helps build group cohesion at all levels.
Make sure jobs are important
Everyone likes to feel that their job is meaningful. The roles you create need to have clear positive outcomes, and these need to be clearly communicated to the people who hold them. Where does each position fit into the grand scheme of things? Meaning and work must be intimately intertwined.
Knowing that their work makes a difference increases motivation, job satisfaction, and productivity. Employees want to help your company achieve its goals. When they do, they’ll proudly talk about it with their families and wider social network and you will benefit from engaged employees, good PR, and wide-armed recruiting.
Give autonomy
For modern HR practitioners, employee autonomy is the highest tier of motivation. Give your employees the chance to perform the way that works best for them. They’ll figure out a way to get the desired end result, and they’ll be motivated to discover it.
Offer a variety of incentives
Not everything comes down to money. You can increase loyalty and motivation with total compensation. Free daycare can make finding time to work be less of a challenge for parents. Corporate retirement plans help people feel secure about their futures.
Gym memberships promote physical activity, which makes people feel good about themselves. Even small things like discounted rates to local attractions or the occasional free meal are good reminders that your business cares about its team.
Be socially responsible
Keep employees motivated from recruitment through to retirement by involving your firm in social issues. Corporate social responsibility is your firm’s commitment to behaving ethically and improving the quality of life for employees, your community, and the world.
The more socially responsible your firm is, the more engaged your employees will be – both in and out of work. Employees involved in a wide variety of activities and interests can bring positive results to both your company brand and bottom line.
Getting involved in social issues can be as easy as taking part in a local nonprofit walk-a-thon, or holding a fundraiser for your favorite charity. These activities encourage teamwork, boost motivation, foster loyalty, and increase employee engagement.
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