Employee Motivation
HRAlabama
11 Posts
Does anyone out there have any really great ideas on how to motivate office staff? I recently read the book FISH and want to find ways to energize and motivate my staff as well. Any ideas on things my company can do? We're hoping that if the energy starts in our department that it will trickle down to other departments.
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I would love to hear any suggestions on how your businesses motivate your employees. I am looking for non-monetary type rewards because honestly we have a pretty good compensation package.
Anyway I don't know where your motivation problem is or what you really want to accomplish, but I've found that being positive, energetic, and upbeat while exhibiting a servant style of leadership will give you what you probably want from your staff. Servant style of leadership, more formally known as Biblical leadership as compared to secular leadership, means that you see to the needs of your people as they go about accomplishing their jobs. Secular leadership which is your more traditional style of leadership means that you are accomplishing your goals through others. There's nothing wrong with that, but the servant style of leadership will give you better results AND make for a happier, MORE MOTIVATED office staff. Remember, be positive, energetic, and upbeat and the whole thing will start with you, Susan. Good luck!
The entire club is very fast paced, each department almost like a little company within a company because they are all so different. I walked into this job and there were really no HR practices in place- so I have been creating the wheel since I started and a lot has improved. However, the employees need to know they are appreciated on a regular basis and receive the recognition for a job well done. Although I am now having the managers go through training programs on a regular basis (this also was something that was never done before) and things are improving- I need them to improve at a little faster of a rate where motivating your staff comes into play.
Most of our staff at the club is very tenured with our company, having been here 5 to 20 years- which is awesome to be able to say, but I think many of them have gotten in the rut that I see our office staff in where they are just going through the motions each day and need something to re-energize them in their positions. It is critical that we get the energy flowing now, as we have about 150 employees now and with our company growing, I see us adding anywhere from 50-100 more within the next 6-12 months. Thoughts?
Here is an idea for your management to consider: do some cross training, both intradepartment and interdepartment. That would pique interest, offer a challenge, and give management alot of flexibility with their people. Everybody wins and you, Susan, are the HRhero.
Laryy's idea is really a good one. We did that here and gave everyone the opportunity to work at different locations, in different departments, and even go out on the bookmobile for a day. Not only is the knowledge this provides valuable, but many really appreciated their own jobs a lot more when they saw what others had to do.
Anne in Ohio
Just wanted to share some great websites for teambuilding/motivation/icebreakers.
[url]http://www.geocities.com/dr_adventure/activitypage.html[/url]
and
[url]http://www.residentassistant.com/games/teambuilders.htm[/url]