Ways You’re Killing Your Employees’ Motivation

Update April 7, 2015

Great employers are always looking for new ways to keep their employees motivated. But if you’re having motivation problems in your workplace, chances are that there are things that you need to stop doing to really improve the motivation levels of your team.

Here are some ways that you could possibly be killing your employee motivation:

Ways You’re Killing Your Employees’ Motivation — Viral Solutions has significant experience in the areas of sales, sales management and small to medium business management consulting. Our experience is spread across a wide variety of industries. This breadth of experience gives us the ability to adapt our services to fit the specific needs of your business, rather than forcing you to adapt to the services that we provide.

• Keeping toxic employees. People with bad attitudes or people who act like jerks on the job really poison the well and bring everyone else down. If you can’t change their attitude, keeping them around could wreak havoc on the rest of your team.
• Lack of vision. You should have a clear goal and vision in mind for your company, and you should be able to clearly communicate that vision to all of your employees. If they don’t know what that vision is, then they’re going to be less effective because they can’t grasp the big picture.
• Wasting their time. Do you send out memos that don’t really have any important information, or call meetings just for the sake of having meetings? Things like this only serve to frustrate your employees. Wasting their time on a regular basis is going to make them less motivated to actually get anything done.
• Poor communication. Without open channels of communication, most people will spend a pretty significant portion of their time trying to figure out exactly what it is they should be doing, rather than doing it. You need to give people clear instructions as to what their tasks are, and what expectations you have for them. Otherwise, they’re going to lose motivation by having to spend so much time guessing exactly what it is you want out of them.
• Lack of appreciation. If you never tell your employees that they’ve done a good job or that you appreciate their work, they’re not likely to enjoy themselves very much. Take the time to recognize hard work and great achievements.

Work with Viral Solutions to prevent yourself from making these and any other motivation-killing mistakes!

by Thomas von Ahn | Chief Elephant Slayer

thomas von ahn viral solutions — Watch out elephants! This slayer of business challenges comes with 30 years of record breaking sales, marketing, operations, training and leadership experience . He has worked face-to-face with 100’s of small business owners as well as large firms. His love of creating, communicating, developing and executing results for clients shines with each project, publication and training event. His entrepreneurial spirit, passion, industry experience, education, problem-solving prowess, charismatic personality and been-there-done that attitude leads his client focused approach.

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