25-11-2016 Tips to motivate your teammates
Today we live an aggressive and agitated reality where everyone lives with too many pending deals in their heads, although personal obligations have become a responsibility away from being an activity so the performance of our work team may suffer losses in their outputs.
That is why then there are clear examples of companies like google where employees are relaxed and have a number of reasons why not feel in an office asphyxiated or with a heavy logic of work. However not all can be coupled to that so playful ecology within a work schedule.
The normal thing is to have an office hours and to stick with them, however there are other elements that can be strategic so that your work team can feel motivated and with the vision to continue with the objectives of the company without making radical changes mentality or in your regular infrastructure.
While the examples of American companies have given an interesting trend, the basic rules of the professional seek the same essence of giving the best of eahc one and of having the company´s shirt on. Managers and operatives are in the same boat and therefore there are many possibilities to re-invent the way of working with the same objectives.
So here we give you a list of tips to foster that loyalty that is harvested with results in good performance and in a way that is measurable and measured:
1. Daily Visits: If you are a manager or CEO of a company let your team see you, they follow your path and should feel close to you, so make a return every morning and greet. In this way you can also live the process that they go through every day, find the evidence of some questions you have, even solve problems that you can not find a solution to.
2. Performance indicators: It is known in any quality system that performance indicators are recorded, however, as a leader or responsible of a work team, you can carry your own measurable performance indicators. The key to any indicator is that must be consistent with the objectives of the area and the company, with each job description and with the fulfillment of deliverables to internal customers and suppliers.
3. Reward: the reward as others will understand requires not only money, you can give symbolic recognition but never forget to recognize it since faults must be penalized, achievements must be rewarded, it can be a simple gesture like a medal, a small gathering on behalf of the rewarded employee or a letter of thanks.
4. Interpersonal communication: A very fine line that should not be erased, the fact that you have closeness to your staff does not mean that you have to carry all the problems, just stay accessible to the dialogue to generate an atmosphere of trust and above all loyalty .
5. Publish the achievements and the areas of opportunity: You must keep the people who work with you on the status of the goals, as well as give results in general to the whole company, it is very important to keep everyone informed of the amounts and numbers that favor them, as well as the areas of opportunity that need to be addressed so that you can have a formal commitment.
6. Control your temper: Everything can be said as long as it is with respect, raising your tone of voice can not be the best way that your messages can be clearly received by your collaborators because they are not at the same level of consciousness. Therefore if the activities imply a rigor where everyone has a tense mind, then always try to control your anger without losing the firmness, remember to separate the personal part with the professional. Being professional does not mean severity.
7. Clarity in the rules of the game: it is always important to define what are the basic rules, from punctuality to personal presentation or order in deliveries. The order in your little system will make life easier for you and everyone will be given in time and form. It is important that your collaborators are clear about the limits so that consensus of work can set an ideal environment that everyone is looking for.
Each leader has his charisma and personality, do not pretend to do something that you are not however, it is important to take into account basic and simple aspects since most of the time the areas of opportunity lie in these areas. It is always advisable not to make decisions in euphoric moments and seek to separate the emotional part with the professional.