15 Ways to Inspire Employees

by Khan Babar Consultant

Want to improve the productivity of your employees? Want to motivate and inspire them? Here’s a list of 15 ways to motivate them, identify with your vision and perform better:

1. You be the excited one. If you are excited about your work, the enthusiasm will catch on and your employees will also get excited. Win-win situation.

2. Share your vision. Always keep your goal in mind, share this vision with your employees, make them feel like part of the team and that you have to work towards making it a reality together.

3. Recognition. Give praise for a job well done. Praise in public when a staff member does something innovative, accomplishes something before the deadline etc.

4. Storytelling. Share your story, let your employees know how you started your business, difficulties you faced along the way. They will feel invested and want to contribute further to your success story.

5. Employee goals. Ask your employees what their goals are and try to tie them to yours. Make them consider the time spent in your company as an important part of their life and professional development.

6. Periodic switch of tasks to change things up, keep them sharp and avoid their work from turning monotonous.

7. Unique rewards. Reward success and good performance by playing music, introduce casual Fridays or let everyone leave a little early before on the weekend. Cash incentives are not always the best option. In fact, recent research has shown that employees value other types of rewards (non cash rewards) more as they get more motivated.

8. Allow resting time. Overworked employees will under perform and won’t feel motivated. Everyone needs some downtime to recharge their batteries, rest up and spend time with family and friends.

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