How Effective Leaders Can Motivate their Employees
By Elizabeth Arenivar-Kennedy | LinkedIn, Medium
You believe in your business and its goals enthusiastically! Your entrepreneurial spirit is strong and motivates you to work harder each day. However, sometimes the same cannot be said about your employees. Whether you have been promoted in a leadership position or have been in one for over ten years, learning how to motivate your team members can be frustrating and challenging.
Motivating your team can be accomplished with a genuine understanding of human behavior. Learning what motivates people emotionally and individually can help you gain better leadership skills that promote productivity.
Here are ways to motivate your employees!
Radiate Positivity
Utilizing positivity within the work environment is the root of human motivation, and it is a significant predictor of how people feel and think about their work environment. With this understanding, leaders can win people’s cooperation.
A positive workplace culture improves collaboration, boosts morale, increases efficiency, and maintains productivity. In addition, this decreases the chances of receiving high levels of burnout and fewer plans to leave the workplace.
Overall, being a leader that emits positivity is more approachable and likely to get further and become better leaders than those who radiate negativity.
Set Clear Goals
Setting clear expectations and goals can help maintain a high-level performance within your team. Employees need to know they are working toward something concrete to help make the mission clear for everyone involved. Make the goals measurable and incremental and show them the progress being made. Your team needs to visualize how their daily efforts fit into your company’s bigger picture.
Setting clear-cut goals help strengthen management accountability by assigning measurable, easy-to-understand goals that are evident. Learning how to implement and track goals will improve your leadership skills and drive your business forward.
Connect with them Individually
Do you know what motivates your team individually? Are you aware of their goals, aspirations, and interests? As a leader showing interest in your employee’s goals and career aspirations can motivate them to succeed more within your business.
As you are working as a team towards a common goal, framing a strategy to motivate people individually can develop a clear grasp of how working for you can significantly benefit the team and their own individual goals.
Start scheduling more one-on-one time. Get off the right track by making consistent, clear goals and expectations and operational reality. One-on-one conversation is a great motivational tool, and it strengthens relationships with your team members. It allows you to hear their suggestions, ideas, problems, and issues and talk about performance issues and their work.
Encourage a Work-Life Balance
If you feel like your employees might feel disconnected and unmotivated, it could be that they want to do their job more flexibly. Many companies are struggling to attract and retain workers, and with 50% of workers considered millennials are changing the work culture of companies across the globe.
Offering more flexible workdays and remote work opportunities is one of the best ways to encourage productivity and keep your team motivated.
When leaders try to create an optimal work-life balance, a duty is lifted off the employee’s shoulders. Team members might find themselves feeling torn between balancing a successful career and a fulfilling life at home, with family and friends. When leaders encourage and invest in creating a balance, their employees are more likely to stay motivated, productive and decrease the risk of burnout.
Overall, be a Leader Worth Following
Your team will look to you to set an example as a leader. Leaders set the tone and values for the company they represent. Taking the time to become a leader you hope to follow will have a meaningful effect on your team’s mentality. Setting an example by encouraging a work-life balance, radiating positivity, connecting one-on-one, and being sure to give clear goals and expectations will, in return, create an effective work environment.
As you work to find the best way to motivate your team, you may have to adjust and create changes for what works best. Some ideas may work for your company, and others may not quite fit.
When you perfect your motivation strategy as you get to know the needs of your employees, they will reward you with more incredible dedication and help create an efficient work environment. After all, a team that enjoys coming to work every day is the most worthy investment for your business.
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