Want to know more about motivation at work?
Motivation is that wonderful energy, drive, and excitement that employees
expend when they are inspired to contribute. Motivation is tapped with goals,
clear expectations, recognition, feedback, and encouraging management.
Motivation flourishes in a positive employee and customer focused work culture. Use these
ideas to foster motivation in your workplace.
Your work environment has a serious
impact on motivation. All aspects of your organization culture influence and
define the motivation at work in your company.
No matter what climate and work culture
your organization provide to support motivation, you can, within the perimeters
of your areas of responsibility, and even beyond, if you choose to extend your
reach, create an environment that fosters and calls forth motivation. Here are
7 key ways to promote motivation in your workplace.
Motivation is different for each of your
employees. Every employee has a different motivation for why he or she works.
The reasons for working are as individual as the person. But, we all work
because we obtain something that we need from work. The something that we need
that we obtain from work has an impact on our morale and motivation.
Work motivation affects the quality of
our lives. I've brought you the most recent thinking about motivation, what
people want from work. For many employees, work is about the money. With
money in hand, employees look for motivation elsewhere.
Employee recognition can increase motivation or leave the recipient feeling
strangely demoralized and sad. Recognition is motivational for coworkers or it
leaves them perplexed and unhappy.
Employee recognition, when it is offered
and implemented effectively, is one of the keys to successful employee
motivation. Employee recognition follows trust as a
factor in employee satisfaction with
their supervisor and their workplace. Find out how to provide recognition that
is motivational for employees. More
How can you help a coworker or reporting
staff member find motivation at work? You can create a work environment that
provides the greatest possibility for employees to choose motivation.
A motivating work environment provides
clear direction so that employees know what is expected of them. Hand-in-hand
with clear direction, for motivation, employees have goals that fit within the
company's strategic framework.
Employees know what to do and where they fit.
Want to keep your staff motivated about
learning and work? The quality and the variety of the training options that you
supply for employees are key for motivation.
You can provide training including new
employee onboarding, management development, new concepts for a work group,
team building, and how to operate a new computer system. They all add to the
work environment that supports motivation.
Every employee is motivated. The challenge in the work environment is to
create a culture in which people are motivated by their work. Too often,
organizations fail to pay attention to the issues that are most important to
employees: relationships, communication, recognition, and involvement.
The first step in creating an
environment that employees find motivating is to stop taking actions that are
guaranteed to destroy motivation. Motivation is a balancing act. Employers walk
a fine line between meeting the needs of the organization and its customers and
meeting the needs of its employees. Organizations that do both well - thrive.
Tired of hearing that people are your
most important resource? That's fair. These buzz words have been overused and
abused. Employees have heard them so often, in work situations in which actions
denigrate their meaning, that they have grown cynical.
To battle the cynicism, I propose:
People are your only resource. If you get this truth, you will create a work
environment that fosters motivation and high self-esteem. Your employees will
seek growth and development. To reinforce this, you will recognize them for
their contributions. Love them and help them grow or lose them to an employer
who will.
No matter how positive your workplace
culture and environment are, you have the starring role in promoting your
personal growth and motivation. You can promote your own personal growth,
motivation and career development to overcome boredom, inertia, and staleness.
Here are ideas and tools that will help
you explore personal growth, set new goals, choose motivation and get your life
and work back on a course that excites, motivates and fills your life with
joy.
Traditions are as important in
organizations as they are in families. Nothing is more important for employee
motivation than the annual traditions workplaces create for seasonal holidays.
A holiday celebration builds positive
morale which results in increased motivation. High morale and motivation
contribute to team building and productivity. Here are holiday and tradition
celebration ideas to build positive morale and motivation in your workplace.
Employees choose how much discretionary
energy to exert for their employers in the workplace. Discretionary energy is
the extra drive that an employee exerts in service to coworkers and customers
at work.
It is a symptom of motivation; only
motivated employees contribute their discretionary energy at work. The work environment
that encourages employee discretionary energy contribution and motivation
emphasize these factors.
What Contributes to or Destroys Motivation at Work?
Every person is motivated. Whether
motivation comes from people and activities you love such as your spouse,
children, hobbies, cooking, philanthropy, or work, you experience motivation.
Employee motivation at work is situational. Motivation depends on the
needs and wants that are intrinsic to the employee and the employee’s
expectations and needs from work.
The interaction of the employee's needs
and wants with their company's values, employment practices,
expectations of the employee, quality of leadership and supervision, and more,
influences and creates motivation in your workplace - or not. Readers have
shared what contributes to or destroys their motivation at work.
REFERENCE
https://www.thebalance.com/does-your-workplace-inspire-motivation-1918742
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