Leadership skills are highly sought in today’s corporate world. Ability to get everything together and to find common ground with each one in your team sometimes seems to be mission impossible.
However, there are some tricks you can consider doing that will ultimately result in you clicking with your peers and motivating them to achieve better results in their workplace.
In this article, we will focus your attention on them.
- Different Things Work for Different People
First of all, the key to successfully leading a team is to understand everyone’s persona. Each one of us has different drivers, i.e., different things that can positively affect our will to be more productive and effective when performing our activities on the job.
As a team leader, you must understand that each one of your co-workers is different and that you’ll need to exercise different approach for everyone.
While some of them are best pitched by financial incentives, public praise will work for somebody else. Some of them you might want to treat with front-row tickets for the upcoming ballgame while some of your peers will best respect an extra day off so they can relax with their families.
- Create a Competitive Environment
Since you all work hard on achieving the same goal at the end of the day, the best you can do is to find a way to awake their competitive character by providing incentives to those who showcase the best performance during given period.
Goals have to be set realistically and nobody must not feel like being disadvantaged in contrast to somebody else.
It’s a good idea to give credit and find ways to treat all the members of the team (even those who didn’t display outstanding performance) by presenting them with custom challenge coins of appreciation coins for example. This will keep the morale of the team on the high.
- Make Them Feel Like Home
Keeping in mind number of hours they are spending on their workplace every week, you can easily say that their office is their second home.
Why not trying to make them really feel like their office is their home?
Organizing an open workspace, where everyone should feel equal comparing to all of the others on the team, letting them bring their pets and/or kids to the work, organizing little everyday getaways like grabbing a cup of coffee in the nearby coffee shop or going to the local gym for an hour to steam off is what will make them more comfortable while spending time on the job.
- Make Them a Boss for a Day
How many times did you hear someone murmuring about how he would do it differently than the management? Why not really give them the opportunity to do so then?
Switching positions with one of the people from the team every now and then is something that will make them feel important and that will help them understand all the challenges management is facing on an everyday basis.
This further bolsters the relationship between you and the people on your team, and it’s much more likely that they will feel that you’re driving them crazy with all the tasks you are assigning to them every day.
Conclusion
One way or another, there is really no secret recipe how to motivate your employees. You should find what works for some and you should reiterate all of the time until you find the mechanism that currently works for your team.
Even then, you’ll have to change and constantly innovate your strategy in order for them not to get too complacent or inert.
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