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    Motivation is essential for business success. Recognizing employees and making them feel valued is important for motivation but can be challenging in large companies. Regularly interacting with all levels of staff, even briefly, helps them feel appreciated. Providing a safe, comfortable work environment and establishing realistic goals also boosts motivation. Creating a policy against gossip and harassment prevents a toxic culture that demotivates workers. With attention to these factors, businesses can build a highly motivated workforce.

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    Motivation is essential for business success. Recognizing employees and making them feel valued is important for motivation but can be challenging in large companies. Regularly interacting with all levels of staff, even briefly, helps them feel appreciated. Providing a safe, comfortable work environment and establishing realistic goals also boosts motivation. Creating a policy against gossip and harassment prevents a toxic culture that demotivates workers. With attention to these factors, businesses can build a highly motivated workforce.

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    Motivation is essential for business success. Recognizing employees and making them feel valued is important for motivation but can be challenging in large companies. Regularly interacting with all levels of staff, even briefly, helps them feel appreciated. Providing a safe, comfortable work environment and establishing realistic goals also boosts motivation. Creating a policy against gossip and harassment prevents a toxic culture that demotivates workers. With attention to these factors, businesses can build a highly motivated workforce.

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    Motivation in the Workplace

    Motivation is an essential part of any business that wants to be successful. If you have a workforce
    that lacks motivation, you are going to be dealing with a large number of problems that will have
    devastating long-term effects on your business.
    Recently I’ve been reflecting on my own practices and considering the best ways to keep my team
    motivated and how best to go about this whilst continuing to achieve the best results. Here are some
    of my thoughts on how best to motivate and build a successful, happy team full of hardworking, top
    performing individuals.

    Motivation comes from recognition


    We all know the stereotype of the employee that is unhappy at work and has no motivation to achieve
    more than what is required of them. The sight of someone staring at the printer lights as they copy
    file after file while everyone in the office ignores their existence is something we have seen in plenty
    of movies, but things are not quite that simple. There are many employees in offices that interact
    with their peers without issues and they have a healthy relationship with everyone in the office, but
    they still feel completely ignored and unrecognized by the company as an entity. This is the real
    problem that most companies are dealing with. They are not mistreating their employees, but they
    are not giving them the recognition they need in order to feel motivated.
    Some industries require more motivation for their workers
    There is no doubt that some industries can be a little more rewarding than others. For example, the
    energy, gas and oil industries are often very demanding and people can get the feeling that they are
    just worker bees and they are not acknowledged by the companies they work for. This is a very
    common issue when a business has a large workforce. It may seem hard for business owners to
    make sure that every employee feels acknowledged, but there are ways to do this. You can call your
    entire workforce in for a motivating talk. You can have an office celebration that everyone can attend,
    and you can also give incentives for each department within your organization. Giving back to the
    community is also a great way of making the team feel like they are doing something meaningful and
    working for an organisation that’s aligned with their values. DARE Singapore recently spent an
    afternoon at Willing Hearts soup kitchen helping prepare, cook, pack and clean 6,000 meals for the
    needy in Singapore. This was a great way to get the team out of the office and working collaboratively
    on something very different from their normal everyday responsibilities.
    The chain of command needs to get involved
    One of the biggest issues when establishing motivation in the workplace is that top executives and
    managers don’t always get involved with their employees. Some struggle to effectively interact with
    people below their ranks. We know that time can be an impediment for constant interactions with
    others in your business, but taking the time to regularly and consistently say hi and check in with
    your team is not impossible and it will do wonders for employee morale. If you ask employees about
    the importance of interacting with their bosses, you will see how much they appreciate being able to
    engage in conversation with them, regardless of how sporadic they may be. This is a reminder of the
    value of interacting with your workers.
    Make sure they have a comfortable and safe place to work
    It’s very common for people to work without desks or workstations when they are involved in the
    energy, gas and oil industries. It could be due to field work, or because they have to do laborious
    work, but they should all have enough room and comfort to rest. You also need to make sure that
    you provide a safe environment for them to do their job without worrying about their personal safety.
    This is also going to make them feel like they are important and that you care about their wellbeing.
    Create realistic goals for each department
    Don’t force your employees to go to extreme lengths to be acknowledged. Instead, you can create
    realistic goals for every week or month and reward those who meet those goals. There should be a
    challenge involved, but never anything too demanding. This is a great way to keep employees
    motivated and with specific short-term goals. It’s important to have long-term and short-term goals
    for your workforce. Everyone should also feel like they have a chance to climb the corporate ladder,
    regardless of their current position.
    Create a no gossip and no harassment policy
    There is a very common problem happening in offices and that is harassment, and we are not talking
    about the sexual kind, but the emotional kind. Believe it or not, there are many office work
    environments that resemble the bullying that is similar to that of a high school environment. There
    have been cases of workers who feel depressed because they are harassed and bullied by their
    coworkers on a daily basis. This sounds difficult to believe, but it is a very common problem that
    happens in many offices all over the world. The problem is that it happens because the decision
    makers don’t even bother finding out what is happening with their workers. This is one of the reasons
    why gossip and harassment should never be tolerated. There has to be an environment of healthy
    and friendly interactions between employees and gossiping should also be kept to a minimum. We
    know it’s impossible to make it disappear, but if you make it a policy, people will avoid the gossip to
    avoid losing their jobs. There have been situations with bosses who have decided to have a no-
    tolerance policy against any kind of harassment and bullying that immediately fires the person that
    does not adhere to that rule. Perhaps you don’t want to go to such lengths, but it does seem to work
    for some business ventures. The good thing about keeping harassment and gossip to a minimum is
    that this creates a much more inviting and friendly work environment for your employees. This means
    that they are going to feel motivated to go to work instead of feeling like it’s a constant torture and a
    place for confrontation.

    Final thoughts
    The process of keeping your employees motivated and happy is not simple. You are going to need
    to look around to see how things are and then you can start making decisions that help you motivate
    everyone as an individual and every area of the company as a team. Once you do this, you will start
    to see a much more positive response from your workers and a more productive environment.

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