You Can Make Their Day: 10 Tips for the Leader About Employee Motivation

You can make their day or break their day. Your choice. No kidding. Other than the decisions individuals make on their own about liking their work, you are the most powerful factor in building employee motivation and positive morale.

As a manager or supervisor, your impact on employee motivation is immeasurable. By your words, your body language, and the expression on your face, you telegraph your opinion of their value to the people you employ.

Feeling valued by their supervisor in the workplace is key to high employee motivation and positive morale. Feeling valued ranks right up there for most people with liking the work, competitive pay, opportunities for training and advancement, and feeling in on the latest news.

Building high employee motivation and morale is both challenging and yet supremely simple. It requires that you pay attention every day to profoundly meaningful aspects of your impact on life at work.

Your Arrival at Work Sets the Tone for the Day

Picture Mr. Stressed-Out and Grumpy. He arrives at work with a frown on his face. His body language telegraphs over-worked and unhappy. He moves slowly and treats the first person who approaches him abruptly. It takes only a few minutes for the entire workplace to get the word. Stay away from Mr. Stressed-Out and Grumpy if you know what's good for you this morning.

Your arrival and the first moments you spend with staff each day have an immeasurable impact on positive employee motivation and morale. Start the day right. Smile. Walk tall and confidently. Walk around your workplace and greet people. Share the goals and expectations for the day. Let the staff know that today is going to be a great day. It starts with you. You can make their day.

Use Simple, Powerful Words to Motivate Employees

Top teamwork tips for SME

A recent survey has found that poor teamwork causes owners of small firms in Britain to stay late in the office, wastes valuable time and adds to employee dissatisfaction. But all this could be avoided by encouraging employees to work more effectively as a team.

The research, conducted by Microsoft UK, found that 37 per cent of the 2,200 British people taking part in the study believed that one of the main causes of time-wasting within the workplace was due to a lack of communication between team members.

Clare Barclay, director of small business, Microsoft UK, commented, ‘individual team members are hired for the value they can add to the business – but don’t neglect the team as a whole. An efficient, capable business is a team effort and employers should put procedures in place that help and encourage employees to work together for the benefit of the whole company.’

Here are some top tips on how businesses can help their employees work better together:

Match tasks to skills

It’s good sense to match your employees’ key skills to their role. You might recruit someone for their skills in one area, but if they show potential in another, offer them the opportunity to get involved in that part of the business. They will appreciate the opportunity to succeed and this will motivate them and the rest of the team.

Identify role and responsibilities

Once you’ve matched your employees to their roles it’s important they see the bigger picture. To get the best out of everyone, they should understand how their job impacts the success of the team.

Integration across job roles

There needs to be a level of ‘role integration’ within the business. For example, if your accountant needs to query an invoice, they must understand how the business works just as much as the employee needs to understand the accountant's role.

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Teamwork Tips for Managers: Creating a Power Team Made Easy

Attain your business goals by fostering better team dynamics 

 

Do you have what it takes to be a good manager? Do you have the ability to bring out the best from your team? You need to realize that as a manager, you have the power to make or break the organization. With such a critical role in your hands, you need to have the competency to create and nurture a high performing team. You need to bring your team together and encourage them to work toward a common goal. How do you do this? Here are some essential teamwork tips that can help you become a better manager.

Creating a Powerhouse Team: Some Tips to Consider

    1. Identify your goals. Communicate your goals and expectations clearly right from the start to avoid any disagreements within the team. 

    2. Define responsibilities. Having clear-cut responsibilities and accountabilities can help reduce friction among group members so make sure they understand their individual roles perfectly. Play to their individual strengths by assigning tasks that allow them to use their skills and competencies. 

    3. Training is the key to success. Remember, your team is only as strong as its weakest link so do everything you can to further enhance your team members' skills and capabilities.

    4. Empower your team. Give your people the power to make their own decisions pertaining to the task at hand but carefully monitor them to make sure they are doing the right thing. 

    5. Provide valuable feedback. Let your group members know what you think about their work. Never let them second guess your opinion for it may affect the quality of their work. Keep in mind that it is your responsibility to steer them in the right direction.

    6. Reinforce positive results. Rewarding your people as a team for a job well done can foster a more positive office environment. In addition, you should reward high performing team members as well.

    7. Encouragerelationships.

How to Kick Fear to become the Success you always dreamed of becoming

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” ~ Audre Lorde

Is fear and apprehension preventing you from becoming the success you always dreamed of becoming? Lets understand where your anxiety is coming from – and find out how you can overcome it.

What’s holding you back from achieving success? Is it a lack of talent/skill to do something worthwhile?

I doubt it!

Chances are you’ve got a compelling passion for a particular type of skill, whether it’s assisting others, developing a product, or supplying a service.

As a counselor, I’ve found that the number one reason most people never take the plunge and start working on their passion is anxiety.

Where oh where does the Fear come from?

I completely understand apprehension because I’ve experienced it myself. Many times in the very far past while was helping others to defeat personal struggles … I found that instead of feeling a sense of achievement, I was drained. I was seeing people go on to better futures and more fulfilling lives through finding their true sense of Self – yet here I was grounded, and almost resentful, after my work was done. Instead of anticipating the next successful patient, I almost shunned taking many on. I was in a dilemma and I did NOT like it one bit!

My dilemma?

When I started feeling this way a few years back, I knew there had to be a change – in my life, in the way I thought and in the way I approached my work. But at the same time, I was fearful that if I changed, the whole thing would go south and I would fail miserably.

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Essentials of an effective teamwork

A team is a common platform to reach towards organization goals. Effective communication, uniteness and leadership qualities may help the team productivity. Below tips may help for effective teamwork.

 • Strong communication: Communication plays an important role and it should be free flowing and well directed towards the achievement of the team goals. The major success of any team work is great communication between team members and team leaders.

• Strong leadership: Team members should follow the team lead, the effectiveness of team lead reflects in team’s work and speed of the team. An effective team leader gives importance to team goals rather than personal preferences and personal goals. He always guides his/her team in a focused way showing direction to the team members.

• Delegation of works: Assigning responsibilities to the team members as per their capacity is another major activity of team success. Effective delegation leads to the speed in work.

• Conflict management: This is an important issue in team success. Conflicts in team are common and resolving them without leaving any scar is the conflict management technique. A team lead should take care that all the team members are considered in equal way without affecting the team’s performance.

• Generate trust: Creating trust among team members strengthen the team spirit. Maintaining confidentiality about new project, running project details among team members is important as per the organization terms and conditions.

 

• Respect team members: