Keeping people feeling good about their work on your blog


Motivating staff

Your team is going to produce their best work if they are motivated and happy. There are many factors that go into keeping people feeling good about their work, here are a few:

Your business mission and values

What your business is all about has a great impact on how your staff behaves. If a person feels they are working for an organization that is genuinely set on being the best, doing great work, or creating value for readers, then they are more likely to produce great work themselves. If your organization is about making you money at any cost, this will most likely not inspire anyone to achieve much more than the minimum.

While what you say has some bearing in this respect, what is more important is what you do. It's not enough simply to have a nice mission or value statement in your business plan; it has to be part of the organization and its operations.

Helping your staff achieve what they want to achieve

Having staff is a relationship and like any relationship, it works best when both parties contribute. While you will be expecting your staff to deliver the goods in their work, you should make sure your business is giving staff value by building their skill sets and experience, providing opportunities to grow and try new things, and generally helping them get where they are going. Take some time to find out what is important to your staff and support them on that path.

Setting an example

As the business owner you will set an extremely important example to people working with you. Companies generally often end up reflecting their founders and managers so if you work hard, you can expect to draw people who work hard. If you set the right priorities, you can expect your staff to do so too. If you want to lead a happy, motivated team – you need to be happy and motivated.

Keeping everyone informed and involved

It's a lot easier to be invested in an enterprise when you really feel a part of it. This happens when you know what is going on and have a chance to affect the course of those goings-on.

Providing context to the activities of your business helps everyone feel they are genuinely part of the business. Taking input from your staff is not only a clever thing to do – chances are they have some pretty good ideas – but it also ensures that the creation is partly theirs. This feeling of ownership in turn keeps them feeling vested in the success of your enterprise.

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