Do your employees go to work with enthusiasm or are they always complaining about something? And what about you? Are you able to inspire your team? The Business Know-How website focused on the issue of employee motivation and prepared a guide on how to inspire your employees at work.
Once employees receive payment covering all their expenses, their financial motivation is gone and they start looking for other sources of job satisfaction. Of course, their contentment is one of the factors, and you, as a manager, are the one who influences it. Learn with us how to inspire others:
1. Reinforce with enthusiasm
The energy that goes into the work has to radiate from you as well as your enthusiasm for the results. If it does not happen, look for own source of motivation first. Once you have become a real enthusiast for what you do, then you can share your vision and and goals with others. You will better achieve synergy and be able to transfer your energy to the others in the team.
2. Maximize potential
Observe team members at work. What weaknesses and strengths do they have? Make the most of their potential in certain activities and give them tasks they can handle best. Support or even explore their ideas with the purpose of realization. They will feel appreciated. Moreover, expand your employees’ personal development and skills training. Enthusiasm will come naturally.
3. Praise them
Criticizing an employee's weaknesses stifles his productivity. Mistakes can be dealt with using criticism, but constructive criticism. If an employee has no feedback at all, then he becomes complacent. Therefore, focus on his strengths. It is not necessary to describe the various financial and non-financial benefits in detail. A thank-you letter, applause at the meeting and other forms of rewards cost you nothing. The carrot approach is better than the stick, isn't it?
4. Watch your reputation
Employees are happy when they can work for a company that has a good reputation in the market and that produces something valuable or important. They feel proud.
5. Give them your trust
Micromanagement tactics do not allow employees to develop their own potential fully or even their trust and commitment to the job. Give your employees a certain amount of independence and see how it affects their performance and motivation to work.
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