Hi Hero ?
Wouldn’t you like to know how employees can be incredibly motivated in the workplace?
Nowadays it’s hard to find self-motivated individuals and leaders have to learn how to motivate them because that’s one of the most relevant and essential skills, they can possess.
Assertive decision-making was part of good leadership before the 1980s when leaders were celebrated for their courage and risk-taking when shaping corporate strategies, but times have changed. Today, leaders must go beyond the day-to-day operations and “tough decisions.”
Leaders in today’s society have to shape the art of motivation, the ability to understand people and to be able to tap into their respective motives are the skills that make the difference.
What about making good decisions and tough choices?
This isn’t all, once the decisions have been made, today’s leaders must be able to motivate their workers to accept and embrace organizational decisions.
The ability to inspire and motivate employees is what separates exceptional leaders from ordinary leaders.
Studies demonstrated that there are different ways to motivate.
Fun: Some employees like to work with fun in the workplace, getting excited at the beginning of the day and some others prefer to enjoy social activities after work, getting excited at the end of the day.
Leaders tips:
- Discover your employee’s favorite tasks
- Assign more of the tasks that they like
- Be a jokes teller. You can be inspired by books, or online articles or ask the “jokers employee” to help out and tell a new joke of the day
- Make and let them laugh to be happier and more productive
- Organize something interesting during breaks or lunch breaks
- Create a week board with the funniest jokes of the week
- Create an events board to create interaction with social after-work activities
- Make laughter a must
- Plan social events
- Organize barbecues or ball games
- Take them out for dinner
- Start the working day with a fun and motivating meeting
- Create engaging tournament games with the daily tasks
Rewards: Paying per hour employees, will not be enough to motivate them to do an excellent job. Many of them need to know they’ll be rewarded to feel more motivated.
Leaders tips:
- Create incentives
- Create a sales contest with prizes for the best performance
- Create objectives and goals to lead them to earn salary bonuses
- Remind them weekly about their incentives
- Reward regularly top performers
- Offer extra free time for top performers
- Create plaques for the rewarded employees
- Celebrate winners in front of everyone
Reputation: People motivated by reputation have a strong need to enhance their image or esteem with others. Many people want others to think highly of them, plain hungry, starving in fact, for some attention and external motivation.
Workers often think that their boss doesn’t really care what they do or how they do it.
Other workers will work hard for a short while until they realize that their boss doesn’t verbalize any appreciation for their efforts and when this happens, motivation disappears. These are the individuals who really care about appearance because are seeking approval from others.
Leaders tips:
- Give feedback about how they perform
- Give compliments in front of others
- Criticize them only privately
- Reinforce the good job done
- Show appreciation for what they do
- Create a bulletin board with the best suggestions
- Tell them they are important not only for the business but even for you
- Ask if anything interesting happened to them in the past few days
- Give credit or certifications to anyone making the difference
- Recognize top performers during meetings
- Create an employee recognition system
- Create a biography board with employees
- Create events where you can announce “the hardest worker”, “the stylishiest worker”, “the most hilarious worker”, “the most athletic worker”
Challenge: Research shows that most leaders seem to have extraordinary levels of internal self-concept. This means that leaders tend to be motivated from within and like to challenge themselves with new skills and developmental opportunities. Some leaders think that this is
the only way that people are motivated and many believe if people aren’t motivated in this way, then they are simply unmotivated. Motivation isn’t the same for everyone and leaders must be aware that not all people are motivated in the same way or by the same things.
Leaders tips:
- Let them work in their own way if they know what to do
- Assign tasks for them to show their skills and talents
- Incentivize them to use their best skills
- Find out what they want to improve and help them to do it
- Challenge them provoking them
- Give them autonomy to do a better job
- Give them a challenge
Purpose: Employees who are motivated by purpose look beyond themselves and aren’t concerned with their own self-interests or with who may notice what they’ve done or
whether they are being pushed and challenged. What matters to a person motivated by a strong sense of purpose is that they must believe in what the organization is doing. If they agree with what the company stands for and what the company is trying to do, then they will join in and give their fullest efforts to achieve the organization’s goals.
However, if these individuals don’t feel called by the vision or purpose, they will seem rather lethargic or uninterested in what’s going on. Instead, their best efforts will be reserved for other causes in their lives more deserving (to them) of their heart and soul effort. They commonly work very hard on community-based problems or charity drives and often volunteer for Red Cross or the United Way, trying to make a positive impact on society as a whole. If you’re a boss and notice that some of your average or below-average workers are exceptional at charity drives or much more enthusiastic about their volunteer and service projects than their day job, this may indicate that the person is motivated by purpose and goal internalization.
Leaders tips:
- Communicate the purpose of the assigned tasks
- Talk daily about the company vision and mission
- Remind them about families and communities who depend on the company to succeed
- Remind them that their efforts will help the company to pursue their vision
- Make connections between their work and the company vision so they can see how they fit into the bigger picture
- Include workers in the visioning and strategic planning process so that they feel they are taking part in the organizational outcomes
Can you see your company within the next years, having happier, more aware, and motivated human resources, working with you for longer than usual without wasting your precious invested time anymore, and becoming a strong, empowered, and innovative company?
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