| Work Motivation is an essential skill for all types of managers |
. Here is how you can do work motivation
Work Motivation helps you energize your staff or yourself to do more at
work or in life in general. Labeling a certain staff member as because
s/he “lacks motivation” is wrong in today’s contemporary management
skills. There is a real art for your team motivation.
What is Motivation?
Starting with your own self motivation, you need to consider the
following factors when you consider the motivation skill:
What is the goal you want to achieve
How hard you try to achieve a goal
The direction you take to achieve the final goal you are trying hard to
reach
For how long you can keep trying
We coin individual as being motivated when they try hard and long
enough to achieve their goals in life or at work.
Whether you seek the skills of work motivation, self motivation or your
team motivation, you need to keep one fact in mind: Motivation is
different for each person.
Motivation is different for each person:
Each person has different sets of needs or goals that he wants to
achieve. Here are some examples of human’s basic needs:
Body needs such as hunger and thirst
Physical and emotional security
Self and social esteem of being accepted within a group of friends or
family.
Individuals are usually concerned with motivating themselves to have
their basic needs. Once these are satisfied, new goals in life or at work
can be the next goal for self motivation.
Another fact we need to consider before move forward: Most staff dislike
coming for work. Their motivation differs depending on the status of
their basic needs listed above. For example, most staff come to work to
make money to satisfy their body needs. Others who are little bit secure
on these fronts, their self and social esteem might dominate in terms of
looking for a job title that satisfies their ambition for social status such
as being a CEO or general manager of a company.
Understanding your staff needs helps you plan a proper work motivation
for each of them and a common tactic for the team motivation. But first,
yourself motivation should be preserved. If you are not motivated at
work, you need to start with yourself before you create the work
motivation or team motivation.
Work Motivation:
From our experience, team motivation is related to the following factors:
Work achievement: Staff who achieve a goal that is well directed by
their supervisor are work motivated usually. They come to work the next
to make the next achievement milestone.
Recognition: Staff who achieves his or her manager directed goals and
work hard and long hours to achieve them expect to be recognized.
They would expect usually for salary increase, bonus, or a job
promotion. “Thank you” is a great work motivator. Praising loudly is a
work motivation that subordinates like a lot. Failing to give it to them
fades the work motivation, self motivation and team motivation! Never
steal credit of your staff.
The work environment: is a great work motivator. Decent surroundings
motivate staff to come to work and feel at home. This factor covers the
team the staff operates within and the overall culture of the entity. Free
coffee, as simple idea as it sounds, make a big difference.
Self growth: is a work related motivator. Put it simply, staff who don’t
get promoted in their jobs for long lose the work motivation. A good
gauge for self growth at work is the salary increase, job title, authority
and responsibilities given to grow the self growth and self esteem.
To summarize, work motivation is necessary to retain the sight staff.
How to motivate staff at work depends on your understanding of the
needs and goals in life for each staff you manage or supervise. It is you
analysis and frank discussion that will help you know you staff better
and assess the team motivation they seek.
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Work Motivation helps you energize your staff or yourself to do more at
work or in life in general. Labeling a certain staff member as because
s/he “lacks motivation” is wrong in today’s contemporary management
skills. There is a real art for your team motivation.
What is Motivation?
Starting with your own self motivation, you need to consider the
following factors when you consider the motivation skill:
What is the goal you want to achieve
How hard you try to achieve a goal
The direction you take to achieve the final goal you are trying hard to
reach
For how long you can keep trying
We coin individual as being motivated when they try hard and long
enough to achieve their goals in life or at work.
Whether you seek the skills of work motivation, self motivation or your
team motivation, you need to keep one fact in mind: Motivation is
different for each person.
Motivation is different for each person:
Each person has different sets of needs or goals that he wants to
achieve. Here are some examples of human’s basic needs:
Body needs such as hunger and thirst
Physical and emotional security
Self and social esteem of being accepted within a group of friends or
family.
Individuals are usually concerned with motivating themselves to have
their basic needs. Once these are satisfied, new goals in life or at work
can be the next goal for self motivation.
Another fact we need to consider before move forward: Most staff dislike
coming for work. Their motivation differs depending on the status of
their basic needs listed above. For example, most staff come to work to
make money to satisfy their body needs. Others who are little bit secure
on these fronts, their self and social esteem might dominate in terms of
looking for a job title that satisfies their ambition for social status such
as being a CEO or general manager of a company.
Understanding your staff needs helps you plan a proper work motivation
for each of them and a common tactic for the team motivation. But first,
yourself motivation should be preserved. If you are not motivated at
work, you need to start with yourself before you create the work
motivation or team motivation.
Work Motivation:
From our experience, team motivation is related to the following factors:
Work achievement: Staff who achieve a goal that is well directed by
their supervisor are work motivated usually. They come to work the next
to make the next achievement milestone.
Recognition: Staff who achieves his or her manager directed goals and
work hard and long hours to achieve them expect to be recognized.
They would expect usually for salary increase, bonus, or a job
promotion. “Thank you” is a great work motivator. Praising loudly is a
work motivation that subordinates like a lot. Failing to give it to them
fades the work motivation, self motivation and team motivation! Never
steal credit of your staff.
The work environment: is a great work motivator. Decent surroundings
motivate staff to come to work and feel at home. This factor covers the
team the staff operates within and the overall culture of the entity. Free
coffee, as simple idea as it sounds, make a big difference.
Self growth: is a work related motivator. Put it simply, staff who don’t
get promoted in their jobs for long lose the work motivation. A good
gauge for self growth at work is the salary increase, job title, authority
and responsibilities given to grow the self growth and self esteem.
To summarize, work motivation is necessary to retain the sight staff.
How to motivate staff at work depends on your understanding of the
needs and goals in life for each staff you manage or supervise. It is you
analysis and frank discussion that will help you know you staff better
and assess the team motivation they seek.
Return to the Management Skills page from the work motivation skills
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