Employee Motivation
April 5th, 2007 by Remon
As an employer you want motivated and loyal employees. You want to create a friendly, family-like environment for your employees but you don’t want it to become chaotic. Sometimes you notice your employee(s) getting less motivated or maybe not motived at all.
The problem with an unmotivated employee is that it’s natural to de-motivate the other employees as well, thus making your business less productive. So how do you give your employee his motivation back?
Employee Motivation Step one
Ask him what’s up. Maybe something happened at home or in the family. If it’s something about the business and he doesn’t want to say what, tell him he can say it and that whatever he says has no consequences for his job.
Employee Motivation Step two
You now know what’s up with the employee. If something happened at home or in the family give him a few hours or a day off if you think he benefits from it. He’s not very productive anyway. If there’s something about the business see what you can do to improve it.
Employee Motivation Step three
If you’re business is okay and nothing happened at home your employee may just be unhappy with his job. Maybe he’s done the same thing for years, maybe there is no challenge for him anymore. See if you can use your employee in another way, ie. doing other things, that makes him happy but makes the business money as well.
Other employee motivation tips
A bonus system is generally a good motivator. Give your employees a basic salary and give them a bonus for certain goals met. They will be motivated, they will earn more, and if you’re doing it right you will earn more as well.
Another motivator is business gettogethers. Take your employees to dinner or something else they may like and have the business pay for it.
If you’re employee still isn’t motivated and he’s demotivating your other employees as well consider firing him. It sounds harsch but the reality is that your business comes first. You don’t want one person bringing down the business, do you?
Remember, it’s easier to improve your business environment for your employees than it is to find new, good employees and learn them all the tricks of the trade.