Motivating Employees Isn't So Simple...

Clearly, the most successful companies are those where employees feel best. Those where people are fully committed, offer ideas, take responsibility and show extreme loyalty and fidelity to their employer. 

Transforming your company into a motivating organization that helps employees work better and be more productive is the goal of any company. But as all managers know: motivating your team is a very complex task because motivation is not imposed, it is provoked. 

How to make your employees whistle with joy because they work for you? 

It's not just salary that motivates a team. Small, simple gestures alone can boost morale. 

• Build Trust: No motivation without trust. By trusting your team, you have every chance for your team to respect you. For your employees to thrive in their work, they need to know that they have a scope of action where they benefit from your trust. Your employees must clearly know the missions that are incumbent upon them and the objectives associated with them. 

• Communicate It's difficult to maintain the level of involvement of your employees without active and lasting communication. Communication must be top-down but also bottom-up to allow all employees to express themselves. Several channels can be used: Meetings, Telephone, Intranet, Interviews Individuals and Informal Conversations. 

• Animate Nothing is more motivating for your team than an "Intellectual Excitation" from time to time and nothing is more debilitating for their morale than routine work repeating week after week. The Manager must be able to launch Challenges to his team provided that the success of the challenges or these challenges are accompanied by rewards: Bonuses, Days Off, Explicit Recognition… 

• Pay attention to the work environment Employee motivation is closely linked to the environment in which they evolve. The Manager must be attentive to the atmosphere of his team by learning to know his employees personally in order to be able to act quickly on the parameters that can affect their level of motivation. And then a touch of humor never hurts anyone. 

 

Posted on February 28, 2011

Article written by The ReKrute.com team