Jun 30, 2011

Motivate the team by exposing them!

Self-motivation is by far the most powerful and sustainable form of motivation. That said we don’t always have all doors open to us. As a manager of an effective team you can help keep individuals highly motivated by opening doors for them. Give high performance team members exposure to your management team or an area of the company that they aspire to be promoted or move to in the future. Keep the following points in mind though to ensure all involved get the most out of the experience:


      1. Determine your team members comfort level in presenting:
  • Some will love to be on stage and simply need you to open the door – review in advance their role and guidelines on “airtime”.
  • Some will love to be “in the room” but need multiple visits to feel comfortable presenting – bring the team member along and introduce them as a significant contributor and with you to hear feedback, give the credit and acknowledgement but don’t push for too much too fast.
      2. Be respectful of the audience – gain their buy in, in advance to ensure you aren’t bringing a team member to a meeting that was planned to review confidential information.


      3. Plan out your opportunities in advance but don’t “fill the slot” if the fit between the person, role and meeting is not the right match.

This form of recognition will both motivate individuals and demonstrate your commitment to the development of your team members.

Employee motivation is of great significance in enhancing an organizational performance. The level of employee efficiency and output will be tremendously increased due to employee motivation that will lead to higher profitability of the organization. More precisely, it is a vital factor in enhancing customer satisfaction since the employees are more overwhelmed and efficient in executing their duties.

In the recent past there has been increased concern regarding the role of employees' motivation in organizational performance. The business sector has received tremendous changes based on the increased competition for the last three to four decades. This has largely been influenced by the aspects of globalization. Due to globalization, business organizations have been forced to ensure the adoption of the best business practices that ensure efficiency and effectiveness. Corporate organizations ensure adoption of the most efficient human resources management strategies that will help in ensuring satisfaction and motivation of the employees.


With regard to the increasing competitors, every single business organization has switched out into investment considerably throughout staff motivation. There is certainly fantastic value throughout assuring complete worker motivation. This is essentially in the aspects of output along with customer pleasure. Research shows that there is a positive correlation between the actual degree of worker motivation and their particular performance and also output. Additionally, specific care can be paid on the role of employee motivation throughout boosting customer or client pleasure. Employees who are highly motivated have been determined to attempt their particular duties and responsibilities patiently. So employee motivation is important.
  • Make time to motivate the team
Motivating each of our team members is something worth making time for. However, false praise is worse than no praise at all, it re-enforces bad behavior and most importantly demotivates the team members who do deserve accolades for their efforts and achievements. By motivating team members individually will be a superb way to motivate the whole team. So make a plan:
  • Create a weekly plan – put together a chart of all the team members.
  • Note for each team member how they would like to be praised/recognized – publicly or privately.
  • Each week challenge yourself to recognize at least one team member- in the team members preferred way.
Rotate through each of the team members, key rule – do not praise/recognize unless fully deserved you don’t have to go through the list in a linear manner, just be cognizant of how often you have recognized or not recognized each individual. If you find there is someone that you are never in a position to praise/recognize, take steps to rectify by digging deeper into why that is and manage through to end up with a team of self motivated individuals that make your motivating job an easy one.


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