“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships” – A well-known quote by Michael Jordan radiates the power and magic of teamwork, teambuilding, and team motivation.
A top editor of a B2B publication giant in Mumbai hardly asks prospective employees to get their bio-data. He asks them only what their hobbies are and what they are interested in. That is the secret of his loyal staff. He has never lost a good worker unless a very tempting offer comes in the way.
At a time when attrition is the buzzword in many top multinational companies, BPOs and even smaller companies there are lessons beyond the manuals that help leaders to motivate your team. Whether it is your sales team, finance team, or project categorization, or any other department of your business, they all starve for the best being happen to them.
Sometimes what a bio-data cannot achieve, a motivated employee can work wonders despite lack of experience on the job. There are no secrets of keeping the staff motivated to do their work. Yes, increments, words of encouragement and regular picnics do help. Nevertheless, inspiring staff is much more than that. Little things make a great difference to the way people work for each other and that too not under strain. Like children, even adults need regular praise and recognition in their work. People spend more time in their offices than at home. So getting to make the office atmosphere more amiable and encouraging proves to be useful. Most employees moonlight on the sly so they really do not want to see the color of money every now and then as a raise. What they want is appreciation and praise. How many managers or employers are expressive enough to do little things that make a difference?
Here are the simple yet effective tips for team motivation:
· Do realize the worth of your employees and pay them accordingly. Research has revealed that majority of the employees resign from their current job just for a 5 to 10% hike in their salary package and this is certainly not a good sign for doing a great business.
· Provide your employees a comfortable, safe, and pleasant work environment that keep firing their work senses every now and then.
· Gift your employees’ freedom of thoughts and expression in order to pave way for self-development and self-confidence. Thin in turn will boost their knowledge and give them a sense of belonging to the work they perform.
· Foster friendly connections with your sales team or any other team of varied different departments to ensure that you share their success, invite their suggestions, listen to their problems, and implement perfect solutions.
· Celebrate the success of your employees at equal intervals while sharing with them their respective performance metrics.
· Many companies have innovative ideas to keep loyal employees on their payrolls- Seasonal and annual gifts during festive season, mention in the corporate news letter on achieving targets, even taking them out for movies for great team building!
Here are some of the key advantages of team motivation:
· It works to improve employees’ productivity
· Strengthens industrial relations and business associations
· Improves business reputation and recognition in the market
· Increases employees’ commitment to work
Some more highlights on the advantages of team motivation:
· For starters, the sense of achieving targets, creativity and improving results can keep everyone on a high.
· Young leaders have inspired their old employees to work for them. This has virtually made the Birlas a force to reckon with when a young Aditya Birla walked in to take charge from the old vanguard from illustrious G K Birla.
· A dynamic leader and a good communicator have helped many employers to keep a team stimulated at work and this goes on like an unending chain of success. In the last several years, Reliance Industries has remained motivated despite the demise of the patriarch Dhirubhai Ambani.
The equations have changed in today’s world. Independent thinkers are capable of putting in their papers for more lucrative landmarks in their careers. Office politics can get vicious and boring after a time and in turn result in high attrition rate and low productivity. Gone are the days when a hire and fire policy worked. Today raise and praise empowers the business market.
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