How to motivate your employees

We’d love to be able to give you a clear statement on how to motivate your employees, wouldn’t it make life easier to read it and put it into practice and sit back and watch them perform to the best of their ability?

But just because there isn’t just one way to motivate your employees doesn’t mean we can’t help you to do it.

Knowing how to motivate your employees is knowing WHAT motivates them. We are all motivated by different things. Some of us by money, some by changing environments, some by challenge, some by routine, some by feedback, and some by being left to work on our own. And if you offer your employees the wrong motivators for them, they won’t respond.

So here are some of our top tips for learning how to motivate your employees:
1. Ask them. So many employers don’t know how to appropriately ask their employees important questions. Short coaching courses can teach you how to ask more pertinent questions to get to the root of what you need to know quickly and carefully.

2. Listen to their answers. It seems basic but we interpret answers based on how we see the world. One of the best ways to make sure we keep our own views out of our questions and therefore get purer answers is to use Clean Language. A few simple techniques can dramatically change how your employees respond.


3. and finally if you want a shortcut: use a reliable psychometric. We use Extended DISC and the inventory of work attitudes and motivations (iWAM). Asking your employees to fill out one of these short questionnaires can give you a real insight into what motivates them so that you can respond to it.

Simple! Contact us if you’d like more information on any of these topics, we’d be glad to point you in the right direction.

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