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The motivation that drives your team is without doubt one of the key aspects of success. When challenges arise it’s vital that your team is energized, enthusiastic and has enormous drive to overcome any challenge.
But how do you constantly ensure you have such a passionate team? The steps below will help you increase productivity within your team and guarantee their readiness to face any issue.
Goal setting is one of the most basic and prominent tools your organization should be implementing. Successful companies set long-term and short-term goals not just for sales figures but also to become more customer-centric, improve quality, reduce errors and build better internal and external relationships.
A Gallup study in 2015 found that only 50% of workers strongly agree that they know what is expected from them at work. Clarity and a mutual understanding of work roles and responsibilities can lead to a 10% increase in employee productivity, decrease in work related accidents and better employee retention.
To avoid miscommunication look at the current goals you have within your organization and ask yourself: are these goals clear, measurable and unambiguous? If the answer is no, look at ways you can alter them to make sure there is no miscommunication between you and your team.
Once you have set your amazing, clear goals you need to give your team some space to work out how best to tackle and achieve these goals themselves. An Entrepreneur article found that 38% of workers would rather do unpleasant activities than sit next to their micromanaging boss.
You’re recruited these people for a reason, you should give them the opportunity to actually apply their skills and do their job. Let them come to you when they have questions but have trust that they will reach the goals themselves.
According to Atlassian, a person at work checks their email 36 times an hour. On top of this on average, after any interruption such as an unnecessary email, a person needs roughly 16 minutes to refocus. Badly written emails, spam emails and unnecessary emails are all culprits of time wasting.
However the truth is that there are also a lot of meetings that could have been an email. Atlassian found that on average a person spends 31 hours in unproductive meetings per month. That’s nearly a whole week! The workers interviewed admitted to daydreaming in meetings, doing other work and feeling stressed out about the number of meetings they had to attend.
Put the two together and then add in other ad-hoc distractions and it’s a miracle employees find any time to get any work done! Help them out and review whether each meeting really needs to be happening or whether that email actually needs to get sent.
It’s true that an unhappy workplace is one that isn’t motivated. However, because of this statement, leaders and managers at times can overdo the positivity by focusing only on the good sides of the business and not on the bad ones.
A 2014 study published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, interviewed 236 employees of a software company to find the correlation between motivation and levels of positive affect. Workers were asked to rate a number of statements related to their workplace whilst managers were asked to independently rate workers based on their proactive behaviours at work.
The results found that very high levels of positive affects actually led to decreased proactive actions. They explained it by showing that when there is a very high positive affect workers perceived that they were doing fine and that they did not need to take any initiatives, reducing their proactive behaviours. As such the study suggested that in fact, intermediate levels of positive affect are the most beneficial for a workplace.
As we discussed in our last article, there are better ways to motivate your team that doesn’t involve money. Giving them opportunities to work on their personal growth and recognizing their achievements regardless of how big or small are all factors that play a role in inspiring and encouraging your team.
Your team willingness to help your organization through the tough times lies within their motivation. Follow the above steps to help your team be as productive and effective as they can be and make your organization a vast success.
