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What
Employers Want From Work
Every
person has different reasons for working. 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 obtained from work impacts morale,
employee motivation, and the quality of life. To create positive employee
motivation, treat employees as if they matter - because employees matter.
These ideas will help you fulfill what people want from work and create
employee motivation.
1.
Employee Motivation and Positive Morale
Some people work for personal fulfillment; others work for love of what
they do. Others work to accomplish goals and to feel as if they are
contributing to something larger than themselves. The bottom line is
that we all work for money and for reasons too individual to assign
similarities to all workers.
2.
How to Demonstrate Respect at Work
Ask anyone in your workplace what treatment they most want at work.
They will likely top their list with the desire to be treated with dignity
and respect. You can demonstrate respect with simple, yet powerful actions.
3.
Provide Feedback That Has an Impact
Make your feedback have the impact it deserves by the manner and approach
you use to deliver feedback. Your feedback can make a difference to
people if you can avoid a defensive response.
4.
Show Appreciation
You can tell your colleagues, coworkers and staff how much you value
them and their contribution any day of the year. Trust me. No occasion
is necessary. In fact, small surprises and tokens of your appreciation
spread throughout the year help the people in your work life feel valued
all year long.
5.
Establish Trust
Without it, you have nothing. Trust forms the foundation for effective
communication, employee retention, and employee motivation and contribution
of discretionary energy, the extra effort that people voluntarily invest
in work. When trust is present, everything else is easier.
6.
Provide Motivational Employee Recognition
Employee recognition is limited in most organizations. Employees complain
about the lack of recognition regularly. Managers ask, “Why should
I recognize or thank him? He’s just doing his job.” And,
life at work is busy, busy, busy. These factors combine to create work
places that fail to provide recognition for employees. Managers who
prioritize employee recognition understand the power of recognition.
7.
Retain Your Great Employees
Key employee retention is critical to the long term health and success
of your business. Managers readily agree that their role is key in retaining
your best employees to ensure business success.
8.
Team Building: How and When to Empower People
Employee involvement is creating an environment in which people have
an impact on decisions and actions that affect their jobs. Team building
occurs when the manager knows when to tell, sell, consult, join, or
delegate to staff. For employee involvement and empowerment, both team
building and delegation are critical.
9.
Build a Mentoring Culture
What does it take to develop people? It’s more than writing “equal
opportunity” into your organization’s mission statement.
It’s definitely more than sending someone to a training class.
It’s more than hard work on the part of employees. The secret
in building a mentoring culture is people who are willing to listen
and help their colleagues. Development takes coaches, guides and advocates.
People development needs mentors.
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