Why Employee Motivation Can Help Us Stay Motivated

What is motivation? Motivation is the drive to achieve your set goals. It drives you to do the things that you need to do so that you can reach your goals. It motivates you to continue going until you achieve them and helps to build your confidence in your abilities. Without motivation, success is only as far as the will of the person doing it.


Motivation is important. When we are motivated, we are more likely to accomplish our goals because we are more ready, focused, and committed to fulfilling our goals. Motivated people are more effective. They work harder, they do not procrastinate, and they stay motivated. Motivated people are able to reach their goals and stay focused on their goals. The following tips can help us stay motivated:

o Give employees recognition for accomplishment. Recognition is a motivational tool that gives employees the feeling that what they have done matters. By recognizing their efforts and successes, employees are motivated to do even more to better their conditions in the workplace. As an employee becomes more valuable, you increase the likelihood that he or she will be promoted or rewarded for even greater success. This can greatly increase the chances that your employee stays at his job and becomes a much more productive worker.

o Create a fun, safe working environment. The easiest way to create a fun, safe environment for everyone in your workplace is to make sure that there is always something going on that makes you, as a group or an individual, feel like you are part of the team. Having social interaction with other team members, allows you to get to know them and discover their personalities. This creates a sense of belonging, which again can help you motivate your employees to be productive.

o Use rewards to encourage employees to take action. Rewards provide a sense of reward or pride when you accomplish certain goals. Your employees can become motivated to take action if they know that what they have done was worth something. This helps to build up their morale and builds their confidence. This can help them to take further action in order to accomplish your goals.

o Encourage employees to learn new things. When you find yourself stuck on an important task or goal, ask your employees what they think they can learn to make it easier. Once they know that what they have done has value, they are motivated to learn more about it, as well. Learning is one of the best ways to increase the productivity of your team members.

o Encourage your employees to reach for the stars. Motivated employees are going to want to climb the elusive "A" ladder no matter how big the climb is. Getting your "A" team to work harder and smarter means having a positive attitude and motivating them to do just that

In conclusion, we see employee motivation as the key to employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction. Motivated employees will be more satisfied with their work. More satisfied customers mean more satisfied employees and higher employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction. A positive attitude goes a long way toward keeping both of these important elements going.

One final note. Employee motivation is not a goal setter. If you tell an un motivate person that he or she will achieve X number of points for accomplishing a given goal, the person is likely not to take you seriously. The best managers encourage their people to stay motivated and achieve their set goals. They don't let employee frustration get the better of them. Employees need to believe in themselves and have clear goals to work toward, and they need to understand how to help themselves get there.

This concludes our three-part series on why employee motivation can help us achieve more. We saw that motivating our people helps keep them working productively. Now we saw how having a plan for motivation can help guide your employees in reaching their goals. Finally, we saw how having a system for motivation can help our employees stay motivated long after the task is complete. Creating a good employee motivation plan can help employees achieve their goals.


Part four of this article series looked at how employee motivation can help us stay motivated through the thick and thin. In this section we will explore the idea of engagement. What is engagement? Engagement is the mental and emotional state that makes us want to do the things we need to do. It is different for each employee. However, employees who are motivated, engaged, and happy are much more productive than those who are not motivated, happy, and engaged.