10 True Motivators that Can Help to Motivate Employees

As an employer, have you ever thought about what it takes to motivate your employees? While money can encourage some workers such as recent college graduates looking for entry level jobs, it only serves as a retainer to other workers. Retainers are benefits used to find and keep the most skilled employees.
Here is a list of 10 Ways to Help You Motivate Your Workers:

1. Add some fun and variety to your employees’ normal routine.
2. Allow employees some input on how their work is done.
3. Encourage employees to take more responsibility and leadership roles in your company.
4. Promote social interaction and teamwork between employees.
5. Tolerate learning errors by avoiding harsh criticism.
6. Promote job ownership.
7. Develop goals and challenges for all employees.
8. Encourage your employees often.
9. Show appreciation for your employees’ performance.
10. Develop a measurement that shows a performance increase.

How can you achieve these true motivators? Here are suggestions for each one in their numerical order.

1. Have a “show and tell” day for employees like kids do at school.
2. Some workers may like to do one task at a time, while others prefer multi-tasking.
3. Find out your employees’ strengths and weaknesses through individual and team tasks; then delegate assignments.
4. Have a “meet and greet” day where workers in different areas of a company get together and do fun, work-related activities.
5. Offer ideas to enhance the work of employees; provide examples if necessary.
6. Allow employees to practice doing a certain task to become better at it.
7. Work with your employees by talking to them about objectives you both want to achieve.
8. Use verbal and/or written communication to instill confidence in your employees.
9. Do something thoughtful to show your employees how much they are appreciated; may be use a “prize box” or something similar to that with prizes.
10. Provide your employees with some type of progress report on how much work is getting done versus what needs to be done, and create a standard for their work to be measured by.

To employers, whether you are looking for recent college graduates searching for entry level jobs, or recent college graduates looking for internships, these are good motivation tips to help bring out the best in your workers.
Source: http://www.employer-employee.com/howtomot.htm
By: — William Frierson a Staff Writer for CollegeRecruiter.com, the leading job board for college students searching for internships and recent graduates hunting for entry level jobs and other career opportunities.
Article courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap, a content exchange service sponsored by CollegeRecruiter.com, a leading site for college students looking for internships and recent graduates searching entry-level jobs and other career opportunities.

Originally posted by lisa colbert