Help Your Employees Stay Motivated

How to help your employees stay motivated while working remotely?

Motivation as a definition is the ability to drive someone  to make an initiative, an action or pursue a goal. It’s what pushes us to accomplish a task or achieve what we want. Motivated individuals perceive fear as a challenge and believe in moving forward towards their goals.  So this article is about how to help your employees stay motivated while working remotely. 

Since the covid-19 many companies applied virtual work rather than actual work environment. Remote workers are often happy but to keep them at their best performance and motivated while working remotely are difficult tasks to do. As putting on pajamas and siting on a comfy sofa don’t provide the type of motivation provided in putting on a suit and an office chair.

Since that remote work provides flexibility and reports show how productivity increases when working remotely. However, flexibility can be distracting at times. As such it decreases the ability to stay motivated and disciplined to finish the job without having someone keeping an eye on you. That’s why when managers hire remote workers they tend to hire self-motivated employees who are able to work and finish the assigned tasks with minimal external encouragement.

The six tips to be help your employees stay motivated:

1.Decide your expectations and always provide feedback:

Unclear expectations create stress for remote employees. Therefore, creating clear expectations and goals increase their productivity and help them to stay motivated. In addition to that, providing regular feedback to employees makes them acknowledge that you care about their work. This will push them to continue to better themselves and find new approaches to motivate them to work.

2. Schedule one to one meetings to help your employees stay motivated:

One to one meetings provide the employers with the information needed about their employees, the opportunity to know their employees personal lives, their work and their sources of motivation. For the meetings to be effective, the employer should be fully present. Moreover, he/she should ask open-ended questions and express their gratitude. Such kind of meetings is the best to provide the employees with the needed feedback.

Because of how employees take pride in discussing their achievements, hence there always should be a room for the employees to talk about their achievements and what they have accomplished for work. Since that in the remote environment it is scarce to discuss achievements and accomplishments, therefore employers should let employees talk about that in team meetings or by email.

3. Create a schedule and keep your team motivated:

Creating a schedule for the employees will help them know their working hours and be organized. A team with high spirit will result in improved productivity, lower turnover and a motivating work environment. Making sure that they feel included, asking them what they need and being transparent with them will provide them with the needed happiness.

4. Reward and challenge your employees:

People work best and in a more motivated manner when they know there’s a reward waiting for them after that. That reward could be recognizing the employees at a virtual meeting or an increase in salary and compensation. 

As for challenging your employees, sometimes this is what keeps them motivated. So for instance, it could be deciding to challenge them to finish a task in just 30 minutes long. This could help them discover things about themselves.

So through implementing these 4 ways in your remote company, you as a leader can help your employees stay motivated while they are working remotely.