Simple Tips for Motivating the Team!

Simple Tips for Motivating the Team!

In today’s business it is a must to become an effective manager. One must be a good administrator and develop a keen sense of the teams basic needs. The ability to motivate and grow talent in your staff will become essential to your growth as a manager. The following are some of the ways I used in building my staffs.

Insure the peoples basic needs are met. All people have a various needs such as pay, job security, and basic working conditions. Failure to meet these needs will lead to dissatisfaction and make it impossible to motivate your team. Taking an interest in the team needs will help your chance of motivating the team to improve their performance.

Promote Pride. People are more motivated if they feel they are contributing. If you are the manager you need encourage the team and ensure them the success of the store is a tribute to themselves. It is amazing what this will do for the teams spirit and self-confidence.

Listen intently. As a store manager a strength of your personal make up, needs to be the ability to listen carefully what your team is saying. Being very busy with many tasks going on is not an excuse for not listening to your employees. When you are in meetings or on the floor you need to slow yourself down enough to really hear what they are saying.

Instill confidence. Many people are insecure and this can cause anxiety which will impede motivation. So you made need to help them to gain confidence. The cure for this is to recognize them when they do well. Confident teams are always more productive because they are not questioning the easy things and are willing to take on bigger challenges.

Be available. Managers need to be assessable to the team. You can't lock yourself in the office and avoid contact with your employees. The best managers are out and about on the sales floor with the team. They put themselves in a position to interact with the people that are working. If you must be in the office leave the door open and if someone comes by, encourage them to speak. Building rapport with the team increases motivation.

Develop trust. Giving your team the opportunity to show them you trust them will improve motivation. It is important to build the trust factor in the store, because this will improve team work. It will be your approach to making decision-making in a fair, balanced, and constant manor that will increase the trust in management.

Delegate decisions. Making all of the decisions as a manager stifles the motivation, confidence and pride of the people. Empowering the team to make certain decisions will also improve the service in stores by making things faster and more efficient. Why hold up team members from going ahead with something when they are following your guidelines. Give them the ability to make decisions and watch their overconfidence grow. Confidence and motivation go hand in hand.

Following these steps will increase the motivation in your store. It will improve the working relationship of staff and management. This will improve your results. I know I have followed these simple examples and have been reward with better results, higher rewards and a much more peaceful work place.