Maintaining Motivation...?
24 June 2015
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Motivation is the set of factors that determine an individual's actions and behavior to achieve a specific goal or carry out a planned activity.
It is the combination of all reasons, conscious or unconscious, collective and individual, that incite the individual to act.
It is recognized that too much pressure and/or too little pressure can, in the same way, significantly decrease this motivation, a key issue in management functions.
For an employee to feel involved and enthusiastic, it is necessary that the work pressure is at the right level, neither too high nor too low, otherwise they risk giving up.
According to a survey conducted by Effectory, 42% of staff members would feel less motivated when work pressure is too high and 44% would give up when it is too low.
What are the three most common motivation killers?
1. The feeling of uselessness
As soon as an individual's work appears futile – whether it actually is or not – the individual experiences a dramatic drop in professional motivation, often losing self-esteem and worrying about what others think.
In addition, there is also the natural fear that this position, considered superfluous, may simply be eliminated.
Thus, whether we are talking about job insecurity or a feeling of uselessness, we come back to the same destructive square: that of the most significant demotivation.
2. Lack of future
In second position among demotivation factors is the ease of action and accomplishment. Thus, if your job is too easy, if you only encounter tiresome routine and deep boredom, without any challenge or stimulating element, if you seem to be stagnating and fear that you no longer have the possibility to demonstrate your abilities or develop and progress in any way, demotivation weighs heavily and the job becomes frustrating, even stifling.
3. Unreachable goals.
In last position, but also very important, is the fact that the challenges are no longer realistic, that they are somewhat absurd because they are inaccessible. Knowing that these goals will never be achieved – because it is "mathematically" improbable, unthinkable – destroys even the simple desire for the challenge!
We don't all evolve at the same speed and don't have the same work pace, but it is very real for everyone that the constant fear of failure and the feeling of impossibility kill all enthusiasm. Naturally, in such situations, there are also enormous stress, the feeling of not being sufficiently effective and a drop in self-esteem.
Finding a reasonable and regular balance between a stimulating job and a satisfactory work environment, according to your personal criteria, is therefore essential to remain motivated and therefore productive.
The ReKrute.com Team
It is the combination of all reasons, conscious or unconscious, collective and individual, that incite the individual to act.
It is recognized that too much pressure and/or too little pressure can, in the same way, significantly decrease this motivation, a key issue in management functions.
For an employee to feel involved and enthusiastic, it is necessary that the work pressure is at the right level, neither too high nor too low, otherwise they risk giving up.
According to a survey conducted by Effectory, 42% of staff members would feel less motivated when work pressure is too high and 44% would give up when it is too low.
What are the three most common motivation killers?
1. The feeling of uselessness
As soon as an individual's work appears futile – whether it actually is or not – the individual experiences a dramatic drop in professional motivation, often losing self-esteem and worrying about what others think.
In addition, there is also the natural fear that this position, considered superfluous, may simply be eliminated.
Thus, whether we are talking about job insecurity or a feeling of uselessness, we come back to the same destructive square: that of the most significant demotivation.
2. Lack of future
In second position among demotivation factors is the ease of action and accomplishment. Thus, if your job is too easy, if you only encounter tiresome routine and deep boredom, without any challenge or stimulating element, if you seem to be stagnating and fear that you no longer have the possibility to demonstrate your abilities or develop and progress in any way, demotivation weighs heavily and the job becomes frustrating, even stifling.
3. Unreachable goals.
In last position, but also very important, is the fact that the challenges are no longer realistic, that they are somewhat absurd because they are inaccessible. Knowing that these goals will never be achieved – because it is "mathematically" improbable, unthinkable – destroys even the simple desire for the challenge!
We don't all evolve at the same speed and don't have the same work pace, but it is very real for everyone that the constant fear of failure and the feeling of impossibility kill all enthusiasm. Naturally, in such situations, there are also enormous stress, the feeling of not being sufficiently effective and a drop in self-esteem.
Finding a reasonable and regular balance between a stimulating job and a satisfactory work environment, according to your personal criteria, is therefore essential to remain motivated and therefore productive.
The ReKrute.com Team
