How to succeed in motivating your employees? This is the question many business leaders ask themselves and human resources directors . The challenge is to prolong for a long time the often very strong motivation shown by an employee when he arrives in a company. Here are 10 factors to boost the motivation of your employees.
- Reduce meetings and reporting
Minimizing meeting lengths and eliminating unnecessary meetings or reporting frees up time for value-creating tasks. It also frees up time for the personal life of employees. To avoid unnecessary travel, videoconferencing should be preferred as soon as possible.
- Take care of integration
On the first day of the new employee in the company, the equipment must be available and his colleagues informed of its arrival. He will feel more confident in this way. Otherwise, a rapid loss of motivation is to be feared.
- Build trust
Employees with confidence will be more efficient. They should feel encouraged and not be penalized for the slightest misstep. Recognizing their work will also help them persevere to achieve their goals.
- Give autonomy
Making its employees more autonomous means giving them the possibility of achieving the goals set by themselves, with more efficiency. Once the framework is set, they make the decisions and decide together what means to implement to achieve their objectives. We thus value the feeling of self-fulfillment, essential in the Maslow’s pyramid.
- Lead by example
Managers should not feel superior to the rest of the team. It’s a matter of respect, but also an effective way to build team spirit.
- Optimized conflict management
Conflict management is essential to ensure a calm atmosphere within the company. Here are two effective ways to do this:
- organize regular meetings in which employees can express themselves on blocking points.
- Train employees in non-violent communication.
- Train and support
The training is a good way to show the employee that we care about him and that we hope to keep him in the company. Thanks to their new skills, the employee will feel more useful and will be able to take responsibility.
- Workspaces comfortable
The choice and layout of the premises are factors that should not be overlooked. Pleasant workspaces, with a comfortable relaxation area, send a strong signal that the company is concerned about the well-being and working conditions of its employees.
- Valuing its employees
Valuing employees is essential. It is simply a question of thinking of encouraging an employee when he invests in his work and obtains great successes. The manager should also notify him when he is satisfied with his work. Taken by urgency, we often forget these parameters.
The employee will experience satisfaction, will feel reassured and will thus be encouraged to deliver quality work and to pursue his efforts.
- Setting goals
If the objective is clearly defined, it will be a sure source of motivation for the employee. Then once the goal is reached, he will find satisfaction in the work accomplished. The objectives must meet the SMART criteria:
- Specific. The objective must be easy to understand, clear and understandable by everyone quickly.
- The employee must be able to measure whether or not he has achieved the objective. A measurable goal must be quantified or qualified.
- The objective must constitute a challenge, a motivating challenge, but acceptable.
- Realistic. A SMART goal must be achievable.
- Temporarily defined. You have to set terms that let everyone know when the goal is to be reached.
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