Here are a few ideas for creating a climate that is overall motivating to most employees.
- Provide relevant training, info, tools to do the job
- Clarity and transparency on goals – SMART goals
- Clear link between tasks and end goals/customer value
- Listen more
- Select good managers and leaders
- Leaders set the example
- Hire qualified staff with relevant work/collaboration habits
- Provide competitive salary and benefits
- Give credit for success, take blame for failure
- Use their ideas and give them credit
- Connect tasks to overall purpose
- Point out how employees have helped others, e.g. customers or colleagues
- Help employees and teams to see the progress they are making
- Help your team look good to the rest of the organization
- Foster good cross-functional collaboration and relationships
- Streamline processes and eliminate busy work
- Provide opportunities for people to do community work
- Ongoing feedback – reinforcing and correcting
- Create fair process for decision-making
- Provide coaching for the job and also for career progression
- Encourage and build confidence
- Provide autonomy where possible
- Let employees take turns leading team meetings, tasks or projects
- Take an employee to lunch, or arrange for them to have lunch with senior management
- Add relevant small comforts and rewards
- Recognize/celebrate birthdays and other life events
- Foster and reward teamwork, help build bonds between employees
- Protect employees from hazards or aggression.
- Stand up for your team's needs, interests and honor
- Celebrate success
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