Employee Motivation
Employee motivation is the ability to get your employees to do their job better and more efficiently. This should be a part of all new employee training as well as an important part of ongoing or continuing training. There are many ways to motivate your employees.
John C. Maxwell (a well-known author and motivational speaker) has the best views on employee motivation. He feels that you need to develop the leaders around you. You do this effectively by assigning tasks to individuals based on their particular strengths and talents. This sets them up to succeed. When employees feel successful they are naturally motivated to accomplish more. This allows you to assign them increasingly complicated tasks without the worry of failure.
There is more to employee motivation than just assigning tasks correctly. To truly motivate your employees you have to let them know what the company's vision is. They need to know and see the big picture. It is much easier to chart a course (and stay on course) when everyone on board knows where they are going. Part of the employee's training needs to be in what the company's mission is and what their vision for the future is. It is only through conveying this information that the employee will feel like an integral part of the organization. However, it is more than just giving them this information. You have to make the employee feel that they fit in and that they are actually contributing to the mission and vision of the company.
So then employee motivation is more than training and having a mission statement and a vision. How do you know if you're getting it right? You will know if you are getting it right because your employees will tell you. Properly motivated employees don't leave. This is why it is so critical to properly motivate and train them. When people feel that they are truly part of the vision want to stay. Look at the company COSTCO. They have a very low turnover rate. They promote from within. Their employees are part of the vision and the company's mission. They are trained from day one about the company, its mission and where they fit in. They are also shown how they can grow with the company.
Proper employee motivation can save a company time, money and resources. It is more cost effective to keep existing employees through proper training and motivation than it is to constantly recruit and train new ones
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