With today’s ever increasing demand for your business to produce big results, motivating your workforce is so very important. Management must consistently model fairness, integrity, leadership, and accountability. Your leadership must be extraordinarily responsive to the needs of your customers and your workforce.
The study of motivation consists of looking at the work of Maslow, Herzberg and others and leadership focuses on different types of leadership.
The word ‘leadership’ can refer to ‘influencing a group of people to move towards goal achievement’. Whereas management can refer to ‘the act, skill or manner of managing, handling, direction, or control.’
In todays competitive and fast changing business environment it is fair to say that more leadership than management is required. It is also fair to say that a business can be well managed, but poorly led.
One of the biggest problems facing business today is how to motivate and engage employees. Your business is likely to be made up of people who thirst for recognition, thrive for successes, and eagerly look for leadership and motivation.
It is probably the individual manager’s actions and behaviour that has the greatest immediate effect on staff motivation…or lack of it. Coercive leadership inhibits the organization's flexibility and dampens employees' motivation.
To accomplish set goals, business leadership requires communication, guidance and above all, motivation. Good business leadership should lead by example. Effective leadership must motivate individuals at all levels to move to great performance.
Before motivational strategies can be developed, managers have to start the process of getting to know their employees, and understanding how employees become motivated.
When employees are not interested in their work or they’re bored, employee motivation is low and productivity drops. Generally, employees are motivated if they feel their job is important and they are appreciated and valued.
People are motivated in different ways. Firstly, intrinsic motivation primarily deals with the feelings an employee has when they have done a good job.
They do it because they enjoy it. Secondly, extrinsic motivation refers to a tangible or intangible reward such as praise, pay increases, bonuses, and promotions.
Most employees want to know that success and achievement in their job can lead to a promotion, higher salary, recognition and esteem by others, increased responsibilities, and even greater autonomy. Managers, or leaders, should always make employees aware that promotion within the company is possible, and is not merely based on years of service but on ability, success of projects, and increasing self-initiative.
Since motivation is personal, aim to align staff's individual drives with the company's purposes as well as team objectives. Good business leadership makes room for a team in planning and problem-solving. A key outcome of every leadership talk must be physical action that leads to results. Lack of effective teams results in internal conflict and inefficiency.
Managing work-load and expectations in today’s frenetic business world is a challenging but vital skill. Feedback on your leadership is very important. Ask for feedback, listen to comments, and act on suggestions that will help your business succeed.
Improving the organization’s motivational climate by acknowledging the good performance of employees, and by providing appropriate recognition, is not an insurmountable task. There must be an open and trustful atmosphere, based upon respect, for motivational efforts to be effective.
Effective leadership not only enhances business performance, but it fosters employee motivation, job satisfaction, performance, and organizational commitment, while reducing absenteeism and turnover.
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