Avoid every unnecessary meeting
Meetings can be a huge waste of time. If you feel like you are wasting time at a meeting, look around. Are the other participants energised and motivated? How do they look?
One of the best thing you can do in order to have a motivated team is not force everyone to attend unnecessary meetings. When you are about to summon a meeting, write down a full agenda, read through it and consider whether you need to meet after all. You may discover that all the items on the agenda can be solved via e-mail.
Be clear about priorities
When assigning tasks or projects to team members, you need to follow the same process of prioritisation. Start with what the end goal is and continue by clarifying to every single member of the team what their role will be. Given clear expectations about work and priorities, everyone will know what they should be doing, according to an article on the business2community.com website.
Make them feel good at work
A working environment should be pleasant for the people working in it. If possible, you should try to equip your staff with the best furniture and office supplies. Even if you have no say in office equipment, you can at least try to provide more natural light by changing the layout.
Social atmosphere is also very important: the layout of the office should encourage collaboration and socialising. When people are separated in rooms with no shared area, opportunities for interactions may be very few.
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