Simple Motivation Tips

Are your people performing at their peak? Are they really working as a true team or do you have a collection of individuals doing their own thing? We have some simple motivation techniques that can reward your team’s performance as well as power-up their job satisfaction.

It’s the manager’s job to get things done. They can’t do it all themselves. They need the contribution of their staff in order to achieve the organisation’s objectives. Managers are only successful if they are able to motivate their employees.

Here are some recommendations to inspire an employee who has lost their motivation or to keep your achieving employees effective and powering:

1. Support them with direction, scope and focus

Most people in the workplace want to move their career forward and improve on their achievements and results. Working with your people to help them work out a plan for their career should create the motivation needed for them to remain focused and productive. Providing them with a goal to work towards, keeps them engaged and their daily activities targeted.

2. Share the Impact

People who feel passionately about the purpose of their job are much more likely to punch above their weight. It’s a manager’s role to bring the purpose of their employees’ jobs to life. Look for the real impact of your job and the jobs of your team members and share the impact with them and with others.

3. Recognise Achievement

People want to be acknowledged for all of the good things they do or contribute to. Praise and recognition for a job well done is the easiest way to motivate an employee. Take advantage of this and make recognition and compliment a habit.

4. Monitor Performance

It is important that your staff feel that you care about the work they do. Work with them to identify ways that they can improve their performance and support them in their efforts to improve. Support and encourage rather than correct.

5. Establish Incentives

Encourage your people to perform well. Small gestures of public acknowledgement cost little and achieve much. More significant bonuses based on performance are also effective and both can motivate your people to take the extra step and feel valued for doing so.

6. Get out there

Being seen is vital. A manager who is well known is usually well respected by their direct reports. You can’t achieve this by locking yourself in your office or staying planted to your desk. Get out and make yourself known to those who work for you.

7. Up Close and Personal

Giving an insight into your personal life and showing an interest in the lives of your people reaffirms that you care about each employee’s personal growth and success.

8. Lighten Up

A sense of humour goes a long way. Know how and when to laugh shows that you are human. Working hard and playing hard is more productive than not letting your people out to play.