Employee motivation is all about finding and building the level of commitment each staff member has to your organization – as well as to their own future growth – and ensuring that the two continue to intersect. Because, when all the pieces fall into place, the results can be awesome for everyone involved.
The actions you take on a day-to-day basis can help you foster a culture that inspires engagement, innovation and motivation from your team members.
Start with These Motivation Management Tips
Communicating Effectively
Keep your employees in the loop and up to date by being as transparent as possible in providing updates. If in doubt, err on the side of overcommunicating. As you do so, make sure you tailor each message and means of delivery to your audience. Convey to your team members how whatever you need to say impacts them, as well as your business overall.
- Maintain an open-door policy. Even if it’s a remote door. Give every employee accessibility to talk with their manager, share ideas, and discuss concerns in a safe environment.
Creating Opportunities for Career Development
For your business to grow, you must help your employees grow.
- Offer mentoring and coaching programs.
- Invite employees to attend meetings and events that will help them grow and network. This includes cross-departmental and cross-functional meetings and/or situations where a manager can allow an employee to represent them in a higher-level forum, in their absence.
- Stay on top of employees’ performance development plans (PDPs). Work with them regularly to review plans and tweak them as needed.
Giving People Autonomy
Give your employees as much independence as possible when it comes to making decisions and getting their work done.
- Provide authority for employees to self-manage. Within the framework of their PDPs, delegate decision-making, after clearly defining limits and any critical points where you will need to give and receive feedback.
Recognizing Success
Hands down, this is one of the best ways to build employee motivation. It’s human nature: People want – and benefit from – recognition for a job well done. And it’s a highly powerful motivation builder.
- Reward achievements appropriately. Recognition awards don’t have to be monetary. Or extravagant. They just have to be meaningful. Tailor each one to the employee and specific accomplishment.
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By practicing these tactics on a regular basis – hint: do not push them to the back burner, no matter how busy things get! –before you know it, they will become routine, in a really, really good and productive way. They will help you become an employer of choice, and help your employees reach optimal levels of motivation and loyalty. What better way to kick off a new year?
For more tips as you move in this direction and develop your winning workforce for 2022 and beyond, contact PrideStaff Fresno today. If you’re hiring and need help finding employees, reach out today and we can get the ball rolling for you!
