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How To Motivate Your Team

This document discusses how to motivate employees on a team. It begins by defining motivation as the internal or external forces that drive individual performance, which is a combination of ability and motivation. It then explains that motivating a team is important because it can increase productivity, creativity, retention, customer service and other benefits. Some tips for motivating a team include setting realistic goals, keeping promises, keeping employees informed, forming relationships, celebrating successes, measuring performance, and knowing your team. Additional strategies discussed are paying competitive wages, offering development opportunities, providing a pleasant work environment, fostering collaboration, encouraging happiness, setting clear goals, avoiding micromanaging, and limiting useless meetings.

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How To Motivate Your Team

This document discusses how to motivate employees on a team. It begins by defining motivation as the internal or external forces that drive individual performance, which is a combination of ability and motivation. It then explains that motivating a team is important because it can increase productivity, creativity, retention, customer service and other benefits. Some tips for motivating a team include setting realistic goals, keeping promises, keeping employees informed, forming relationships, celebrating successes, measuring performance, and knowing your team. Additional strategies discussed are paying competitive wages, offering development opportunities, providing a pleasant work environment, fostering collaboration, encouraging happiness, setting clear goals, avoiding micromanaging, and limiting useless meetings.

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How to Motivate Your Team

I. What is Motivation?
a. Internal or external force that drives an individual
b. Performance can be thought of as a combination of a persons ability and their
motivation
II. Why is Motivating Your Team Important?
a. Teams are the way that most companies get important work done
b. When you motivate your team, you increase the possibility of achieving
company goals
c. This leads to:
i. More productivity
ii. Less stress
iii. More creativity
iv. Higher retention rates
v. Less absenteeism
vi. Better customer service
vii. Improved quality
viii. More trust
ix. More professionalism
x. Higher morale
III. Tips to Motivate Your Team
a. Set realistic goals
i. Understand the capabilities of team, specifically work load
ii. Get team agreement on specific targets
iii. Get input from team members
iv. Contemplate timelines and necessary resources
b. Keep your promises
i. Try not to make promises you cant keep
ii. Do everything possible to make sure your promises do hold
iii. Consider the implications of promises before you make them
c. Keep your employees informed
i. Keep employees informed when possible
ii. Asking employees for feedback can be motivating
iii. Always try to provide up to date information on what is taking place in
the department
d. Form relationships
e. Celebrate success
i. Celebrate the accomplishments along the way
ii. Helps keep employees motivated
iii. Provide rewards for good performance
iv. Examples
1. Monetary
2. Words of affirmation
3. Prizes
4. Promotion
f. Measure performance
i. Always asses a baseline for performance
ii. Measure performance objectively and as frequent as possible
iii. Be considerate of possible influencing factors such as lack of resources,
time, or support
g. Know your team
i. Understanding the dynamics of personality and capabilities
ii. Each employee is unique
iii. Knowing what your team members like and dislike
iv. Important for leadership and motivation
v. Be aware and mindful of who makes up your team and what they do for
the team
IV. Additional Effective Strategies to Motivate Your Team
a. Pay your team what they are worth
i. When you set your employees’ salaries, be sure that their pay is
consistent with what other companies in your industry and geographic
area are paying
b. Offer opportunities for self-development
i. The members of your team will be more valuable to your organization,
and to themselves, when they have opportunities to learn new skills
c. Provide them with a pleasant place to work
i. Everyone wants to work in an office environment that is clean and
stimulating, and that makes them feel good instead of bad
d. Foster collaboration within the team
i. Encourage the members of your team to fully participate by inviting their
input and suggestions on how to do things better, and whenever
possible, implement their solutions
e. Encourage happiness
i. Happy employees are enthusiastic and positive members of the team,
and their attitude is infectious
f. Set clearer goals
i. As a leader, it is your job to work with members of your team to set clear
goals
ii. As well as make sure everyone knows exactly what those goals are
g. Don’t micromanage
i. No one likes a boss who is constantly looking over her shoulder and
second guessing her every decision
ii. Provide your people with clear goals and then let them figure oiut the
best way to achieve them
h. Avoid useless meetings
i. Meetings can be an incredible waste of time
ii. Create an agenda for your meetings and distribute it in advance
iii. Invite only the people that really need to attend
iv. Start the meeting on time
v. End it as quickly as you possibly can
i.

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