How to motivate your employees

Lead: As a leader, if you want to manage the company well, you must know how to motivate your employees. How do you motivate your employees? Let me introduce it to you, hoping to help you!

Methods 1 created a harmonious working environment.

Create a pleasant working atmosphere. Employees spend most of their time in the office, so the layout of the office should be as friendly and attractive as possible. If a pleasant working environment can be arranged, employees will look forward to working in such an attractive environment every day. Office decoration can refer to the following points.

Don't be too crowded in the office. Do your employees prefer an office with free space, or do they prefer to huddle together like sardines in a can? Their happiness will be proportional to their freedom.

The office should be kept at a proper temperature. Too high or too low a temperature will distract employees, thus making your enthusiasm ineffective.

Create a comfortable atmosphere through lighting. If the office uses fluorescent lighting, you may not be able to do this, but you can use low wattage light bulbs, which are soft and not dazzling, making the working environment different.

Arrange employees as close to the window as possible so that they can enjoy plenty of natural light. Sunshine and fresh air will make them feel good.

If the office environment can be more casual, you can put more furniture in the office for employees to relax, and tell employees that they can work here from time to time without being tied to their desks all day.

Make full use of the office walls. Your employees will spend a lot of time staring at the office wall, so you can use this wall to attract their attention and motivate them to work more efficiently. There are some things that can help you achieve this effect:

Put up a bulletin board on the wall, and you can put up all kinds of pictures. You can post birthday cards and related personal information that you want to share with others. Doing so will make employees feel that the atmosphere in the office is warm and relaxed, and everyone will smile as long as they look at the pictures on the display board.

Reward outstanding employees. Although there is no need to post the words "employee's star of the month" on the wall, you can post a small notice or an employee's outstanding achievements to encourage all employees to learn from him.

If your company is maturing, you can post pictures of the company's growth experience on the wall to motivate employees to work hard.

You can put up a few slogans that can motivate employees, but don't go too far. After all, you don't want your employees to focus on overly inspiring slogans.

Hang some pictures that can relax your eyes. Put some pictures or pictures that can please the body and mind, not those fancy and messy pictures.

Use food to motivate your employees. Don't underestimate the power of food. People will feel energetic when they know that there will be delicious food rewards after work is completed. Here are some dietary suggestions to motivate employees:

Prepare tea and coffee in the office so that your employees don't have to spend a lot of time going out to buy coffee.

Bagels and doughnuts are served as breakfast for employees once a week or once a month. So that they can get to the office early and start their day's work. This invisibly increases the working hours of office employees.

Offer pizza to your employees for lunch occasionally. You can even set up a pizza day every month.

Put some snacks in the office, such as popcorn, French fries, guacamole and brownies.

Announce a dinner day. This way is not expensive, and it also allows everyone to communicate better with others while enjoying the food.

Bring a cake to celebrate the employee's birthday.

During festivals, food is used to create a happy and festive atmosphere. Easter eggs are distributed to employees at Easter, unleavened cakes are distributed at Passover, and candy bars are distributed at Christmas. In this way, they will feel the warmth of home in the office.

Also remember to provide healthy food. Some people get fat because they eat too much food in the office.

Set a leisure day. Leisure days will make employees more excited to work and make them feel more comfortable in the office. You can designate every Friday as a leisure day, or randomly select a few days on the calendar as a leisure day.

You can even set a theme for casual wear day. When the Super Football season or the American College Basketball Championship season comes, everyone can wear their favorite team's jerseys.

You can also let employees wear casual clothes to welcome the upcoming festival. You can wear clothes with reindeer antlers at Christmas and orange and black clothes like pumpkins at Halloween.

Method 2 Recognize and reward your employees.

Recognize employees' personal contributions. If your employees have made outstanding achievements, you should try to let them know that their work is great. You can find time to call that "advanced individual" to your office, or write an email to praise him, or write a praise note on his desk to make him realize how excellent his work is, and don't let him feel that others can do his work just as well.

You can post an employee's excellent work on the bulletin board on the wall to praise him, or you can send an email to praise him for his excellent work.

If your employee has really made extraordinary achievements, such as signing a prestigious new customer, you can stand up and announce his achievements in order to show your appreciation. As long as his work is commendable, everyone should applaud him after your speech.

It is important to recognize the personal efforts of your employees, but don't always praise a few people, because this will make others feel rejected by the company and is not conducive to the unity of the whole company.

Recognize the efforts of all employees. You need to let your team know their solid work as a whole, and you will recognize and appreciate their efforts from beginning to end. As long as you take a little time every day to praise the work of the whole team, you can play a good incentive role. The following methods can guide you how to do it:

Hold a meeting to discuss the overall situation of the company and show employees how their work can help the company achieve its goals. Every employee doesn't want his work to be unimportant, but he really wants to make valuable contributions, so he should take time to make them feel indispensable to the company. It would be better if there are facts or charts that show what your team has contributed to the company.

Send emails to employees every week, release the latest news or provide internal consultation, so that everyone feels that their hard work is worth it. Recognize the efforts of your team and praise their work.

If you think your employees still have room for improvement, that's fine. You just need to point out where they still need to work hard. Instead of completely denying employees' work, it is better to praise their efforts and point out what they still need to do, which will make them treat their work more positively.

Reward hard-working employees. Establishing a perfect reward system can effectively motivate your employees to work hard. You can set a goal to see who can accomplish this goal first, or who can win the highest profit for the company at the end of the month. Any competition should have prizes, no matter whether the prizes are "naive" or not, they can motivate your employees to work hard. Here are some good reward methods for your reference:

Reward employees with small gifts. For example, give them two movie tickets, shopping tickets or tickets for the game they have been coveted for a long time. Be sure to confirm in advance that these rewards you give are very meaningful to them, otherwise the effect of this method will be greatly reduced.

Reward your employees by reducing working hours. You can allow your employees to leave work early 15 to 30 minutes or allow them to be an hour late the next day, which will greatly improve their work efficiency in the office.

Reward them by allowing them to work remotely. Allow the hardest-working employees to work at home for a day. Just make sure that people don't feel better about working from home all the time ― remember, your employees should be excited about working in the office.

Reward employees by replacing their jobs. Whether the job is to keep the bathroom clean or talk to customers, employees will be happy to see the boss working for him.

Reward them for allowing them to wear casual clothes. Employees like to wear casual clothes, and the rewarded employees can get the privilege of wearing casual clothes to work on certain days.

Give them a lunch. You can invite employees who win the job competition to lunch, which is also an opportunity for them to get to know the boss better.

Method 3: Have a good relationship with employees

Know your employees. If you think you are too busy to do this, I hope you will think twice. If you can establish a good relationship with your employees, then you can not only better understand how to motivate them to work hard, but also they will like you more and work hard for you. Here are some ways to help you get to know your employees:

Set Friday as "Coffee Day" and spend twenty or thirty minutes chatting with employees in the office over coffee. Chatting content should not only include work, but also get to know each other better by exchanging your hobbies, interests and family. Don't be afraid of their feedback during the conversation. Your employees can help you understand what motivates them to work hard.

Understand the family situation of employees. Please always remember that your employees are real people, with their own families and troubles. If you know her husband's name, children's name, and even pets' names, then you can have more topics to talk with them. These family topics will make them think you are considerate.

Understand the interests of employees. If you find that the TV program watched by one of your employees is one of your favorite programs, you can talk to your employees.

Distinguish the difference between having a good relationship with employees and making friends with employees. Talk and contact with employees should be polite and open, not too private.

Hold social activities. Arranging some social activities can help your employees get to know each other better. If employees get along well with each other and even become friends, it will inspire their enthusiasm for working with colleagues. Here are some ways to try:

Organize everyone to go out for dinner at noon every month. This can help them reduce their loneliness at lunch time and get to know each other better.

Hold a bowling or softball league. This can not only make the relationship between employees closer, but also enable employees to better understand the team spirit after playing for different teams. If you can contact other companies or departments to participate in the competition, then the league you organize will be more brilliant.

Happy event can make your employees relax and laugh after a busy day. This activity can be organized by an employee, but don't be afraid to join in when the atmosphere is just right.

Set up a volunteer team. You and your employees can not only do good deeds, but also deepen their understanding through activities.

Make good use of theme day. Theme day activities are an excellent way for employees to enhance mutual understanding and stimulate their enthusiasm for work. On the theme day, employees will feel more relaxed and get to know each other at work more easily. You can create a good working atmosphere among employees through the following theme day activities:

Food theme day. Everyone needs to cook or carry certain types of food, such as Mexican food. If your employees come from all over the world, you can ask each of them to bring a delicious food from their hometown.

Dress up for the theme day. Although you don't want Halloween makeup to stain the keyboard, you can allow them to wear Halloween costumes, and of course you can hold a costume contest.

Sports theme day. Everyone can dress up as their favorite sports star.

Hawaii theme day. Summer is coming, and choosing clothes that everyone is allowed to wear on holidays will make you feel more relaxed.

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Show great interest in your employees. In the process of chatting with them, you show more interest in what they say. Because employees like their bosses to pay attention to them, not just their work.

Think about how your boss motivates you to work. What did they do to greatly mobilize you? Learn from their experience and improve your ability to motivate employees.

"Team building" is also a good way, which can help you build a close team working relationship and improve the working ability of employees.

Friendly and approachable. Smile at your employees every day, always greet them kindly and tell them that you are glad to meet them.

Praise them generously and put away your criticism at the same time. Remember that criticizing employees will bring worse consequences than praising them too much.

Don't be afraid to ask your employees for feedback. When you can better look at the work and working environment from their perspective, you will know how to motivate them more effectively.

Don't scold your employees in public. You should sit down with the staff and discuss how to solve this problem.

Support the personal life of employees. Recognize the difficulties they face and give them sincere care and help when they are in trouble.

Often carry out lucky draw activities, even if the prize is not high-end, it can also play a good incentive role.

Ask your employees about the declining performance of a certain department of the company, so that they can truly feel that they are an indispensable member of the team.

Staff training can motivate staff well. Design the training to be interesting and challenging, instead of making employees tired of coping with heavy work.