Lucas Campbell is an R&D Manager. He's responsible for developing and executing a new product and commercializing it for the market. This includes leading and directing the R&D Team by distributing workload and ensuring motivation and performance levels are maintained.
Motivating the employees at the workplace is an essential factor for every business as it directly impacts employees' engagement and the company’s growth. Regular motivation exceeds productivity and employees' dedication level - employees not only meet but exceed the business requirements.
Years 2020 and 2021 stood disastrous for every worker; the COVID crises made them lost, shattered, and depressed. Hence, motivation is the right way to finish the year 2021 happily and start 2022 successfully.
If you are also looking for ways to motivate the staff member, like many other leaders and managers, the following scenario can sound eerily worthier.
These offered tips will facilitate the managers to keep workers motivated towards your business's strategic goals.
Let’s delve into it!
Everybody loves to be admired and appreciated; therefore, a simple gesture of thank you or gratitude is always magical. Similarly, a thank you note or email to employees is a cost-effective way to encourage them. If a manager notices employees' efforts and good work, employees’ loyalty, devotion, and confidence are automatically fostered.
Instead of emails, managers can also use apps iAppreciate, Kudos Points, Workmates, or Give a WOW to send acknowledgement notes to remote employees. Such helpful apps can promote peer-to-peer recognition and inspire other workers to elevate their productivity.
A monetary reward is guaranteed to make employees feel valued and admired. Employees become pleased and feel passionate about more hard work. The assurance of a reward like certificates, shields, or bonuses motivates the staff to achieve their highest goals or targets.
Offering subscription services or gift cards develops a healthy atmosphere for competition between colleagues and rouses them to do their best.
Other ways, like providing vacation benefits, surprise days off, or project completion parties, are also practical methods to energize the employees. These benefits can also inspire them to achieve their targets early.
Team-building games or exercises seem entertaining and energizing, but they also play a crucial role in improving work quality, quantity, and deadline.
Outdoor activities like escape rooms or scavenger hunts can develop group communication skills among the employees. In addition, these activities motivate employees to improve their work ethic.
An office gym is also a good option for better bonds, friendships, and team-building. In addition to employee connection, office gyms also reduce absenteeism, workplace stress, healthcare costs, etc.
Due to the COVID crises, in 2021, the employees have undergone various physical and mental health issues, an office gym can facilitate them to cope with these disastrous issues.
A well-equipped office gym can serve the employee and employers far better than we think. Thus, buying yoga mats, stability cushions, equipment such as dumbbells, treadmill desks, and other such types of equipment for office gyms is a long-term investment.
To increase productivity, managers can set stretch goals slightly beyond their employees' tendencies. These goals seem attainable and can encourage employees to work harder. Stretch goals also keep the employees in the race of a competitive world.
Targets that are wholly beyond the team’s capacity can often reduce motivation rather than increase it. It is preferable to break down these projects according to their capacity and keep them motivated.
Without any doubt, mood and motivation go hand in hand because your mood affects your energy, sense of wellbeing, and ability to concentrate.
If you are looking forward to ideas that can motivate your employees or increase their optimism, you can invest in your company’s work environment. A comfortable and positive working environment is a great way to improve employees’ functionality and smooth communication.
Motivation can take the employees' confidence from the ground to the skies. A little appreciation note, incentive, or favor from the managers uplifts the employees’ performance hundreds of folds.
A little act of appreciation doesn’t cost any effort or bucks, but it casts a tremendous and long-lasting influence on employees’ performance and morale level. This article has shed light on the five simple and best ways that you can follow to motivate your team.
A manager should have a clear idea about which methods of motivating are suitable; otherwise, workers' feedback is also helpful to ascertain an effective motivational tool.
This article is a guest blog written by Lucas Campbell. To contribute a guest post to Workast.com, please complete the expression of interest form here.
Workast
