Research indicates that motivation is one of the key drivers of employee productivity in business. Unmotivated workers can produce sub-standard work, leave abruptly, causing staff shortages, and neglect deadlines. They can also affect your overall workplace culture, leading to more unmotivated and unproductive employees. As a business owner, it’s therefore highly important to work to prevent your workers from becoming unmotivated. This can be difficult, however, given that many of us are still working from home, due to the pandemic. This can make socialising and interacting with your colleagues substantially harder. Homeworking can also further exacerbate worker productivity levels if they are already motivated. Fortunately, companies are already deriving new and innovative ways of increasing employee productivity even among work from home employees. Here are just a few ways you can boost employee morale from the comfort of your own home.

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Running a business successfully is about more than just hiring the right people for the right jobs – although of course that helps. If you want to have success that sustains itself, the important thing is to avoid complacency. But this is something that is easier said than done; if you are doing something well, then the impulse is to keep going as you are. That naturally lends itself to complacency because it suggests that there is nothing you can improve, or that trying to improve would be a risk.

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It can be a difficult time when you see that one of your employees isn’t the same as usual, maybe they have not got their usual spark or started not to meet deadlines. You’ll notice they are struggling when a certain personality trait is missing and this is a great time to be supportive. For the employee and yourself it can be an overwhelming time to work through but often it will result in a stronger work bond as you will trust each other.

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