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7 Ways To Keep Your Employees Happy (And Working Really Hard) The Secret to Motivating Your Team. How To Motivate Your Employees. Here on the GoInstant blog, we talk a lot about the importance of employee engagement.

How To Motivate Your Employees

As we’ve shown on several occasions, happy employees make happy customers. In a recent post, we discussed how companies benefit by treating their employees well, but we left readers with the question of what that really means. How exactly do you motivate employees? In this tutorial, we’re going to cover four methods: give them responsibility, power, feedback and rewards, and they’ll be more inclined to take your customer experience to the next level. Give them responsibility. Some managers complain about having to micromanage their teams, but in the long run, micromanagement is highly unproductive. Your employees are the face of your customer service. Hire people who have a track record of taking on additional responsibilities, and then let them have space.

Give them power. Empower your employees to make decisions that will benefit customers. In an article in Business Insider, Chris DeRose cites Yum! 37 Ideas for Motivating Your Employees. A good job is hard to find, but every entrepreneur knows a good employee is even harder to keep.

37 Ideas for Motivating Your Employees

As an entrepreneur, one must ensure his or her company is staffed with people who look forward to coming to work every day for more than a paycheck. Through the years, I found that it was easy to keep employees motivated – all I had to do was provide them with a leader worth following and tasks worth fulfilling. But after almost seven years in business, I still find myself searching for new ways to maintain productivity while providing each individual with the drive they need to perform to the best of their ability. Here’s how I do it: 7 Unusual Ways to Motivate Your Employees. You're automatically signed up for the Inc.

7 Unusual Ways to Motivate Your Employees

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Keep up with (and make sense of) business technology trends and tools available today and tomorrow. Grow fast, beat the competition, and take off with actionable advice and personal stories from serial entrepreneurs, experts, and others who have done it before. How to Motivate Your Employees: 10 Steps. Steps Part 1 of 3: Creating a Friendly Work Environment 1Create a pleasant atmosphere.

How to Motivate Your Employees: 10 Steps

Your employees spend a large chunk of their lives working in their office, so you should try to make the office look as friendly and appealing as possible. Welcome to Forbes. Zero Motivation to Go to Work? 10 Tips  We all need the occasional "mental health day" off from work to reboot our minds and bodies, but what if you have already called in sick one too many times?

Zero Motivation to Go to Work? 10 Tips 

Assuming you're experiencing a normal ebb in the energy you have for work and not a more serious issue (like depression, addiction or abhorring your job, in which case you should consult a therapist immediately), here are some things you can do: 1) Incentivize yourself. 5 Simple Ways to Get Motivated at Work. Have you ever tried to “get motivated” at the office—but nothing works?

5 Simple Ways to Get Motivated at Work

10 Ways to Improve Your Time Management Skills. Do you often feel stressed out with too much of workload?

10 Ways to Improve Your Time Management Skills

Thirteen Tricks to Motivate Yourself. Who needs Tony Robbins when you can motivate yourself?

Thirteen Tricks to Motivate Yourself

Overcoming the emotional hurdle to get stuff done when you’d rather sit on the couch isn’t always easy. But unless calling in sick and waking up at noon have no consequences for you, it’s often a must. 25 Simple Ways to Motivate Yourself. Feeling less than motivated all too often?

25 Simple Ways to Motivate Yourself

I do. Well, perhaps not too often. But sometimes I just feel really lazy and unmotivated. Want some practical solutions to that universal motivation-problem? Here are 25 of them. Let me know which ones work well for you. I’m sure you’ll find at least one or two that do just that among these suggestions. 1. Top 100 Inspirational Quotes. 12 Great Motivational Quotes for 2013. 10 Ways to Motivate Anyone. I am often asked about how I keep employees inspired and productive.

10 Ways to Motivate Anyone

It's an essential question since companies today must accomplish more, with fewer people. The most successful start-ups must be lean, nimble, and fierce. In a nutshell, you should hire bright, energetic, innovative employees. Then offer them the right incentives--the ones that will impact their personal brain and personality types--to keep them mentally and emotionally invested in doing their best. It's impossible to talk about motivation without mentioning Drive, a book by best-selling author Daniel Pink. Pink believes Google's "20% time," in which employees may spend one day a week on whatever they want is a shining example of how allowing intrinsically-based motivations (a sense of accomplishment or purpose) can flourish. There's no question that intrinsic motivation is essential.

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