As a leader, how to motivate your people?

1. Show peoplecompassion: People enjoy knowing when they’re doing a good job and enjoy working with people that treat others with kindness.
2. Responsibility. When people are held responsible, they feel more motivated to finish the task given to them. In a group there is no clear assignment of duties and hence people lose interest. When the rewards as well as responsibilty is yours, you are bound to give it your best.
3. Listen: People like to feel that they are important. /giving them a say and a chance to voice their opinion goes a long way in developing motivation
4. Set Attainable Goals : Goals that are not too easy but not too tough either.
5. Know your People: Keep lines of communication open and get to know your team by paying attention to their wants, needs, strengths and weaknesses. People are smart and they’ll know when they have a leader that cares and a leader that doesn’t.
6. Keep Everyone Involved : Communicate important issues. Nobody likes to feel left in the dark!

Motivation is the key that drives people. Without motivation, no job can be performed upto satisfactory level by any group of individuals.

It is imperative for a leader to understand this and to keep people motivated.

Thus motivation can be defined as the act or process of simulating to action , providing an incentive or motive, specially for an act

It is the driving force within an individual that compels them to complete effieciently a given task in order to fulfill some needs and expectations.Thus motivation is Complex, Psychological and not fully understood. It is unique to every individual and should not be generalized.

Successful moivation of employees can lead to:

1. High Performance: The more motivated the staff is, the better it will perform
2. Low employee turnover and absenteeism : If staff is motivated, they are much less likely to take undue holidays or to leave the company.
3. Better organizational image : Companies like Google that have excellent employee policies have motivated employees and is seen as a dream company to work in.
4. Better Industrial Relations