To reach excellent results, you should be considering ways you can drive and inspire your team. In this article, you find 9 winning ways from SweetSoft to encourage your employees and attain your aims together.
What’s the importance?
We are not a team because we sit together in the office from 9 a. m — till 5 p.m. We are a great team because we value, understand, and care for each other.
Behind every successful project stand people who completed it. Those people who made mistakes, worried, and do their best. But, it’s hard to try when you don’t have enough motivation, don’t understand your role in the project, don’t realize your importance. So, let’s discover what SweetSoft managers focus on to achieve impressive results.
Set clear goals
To achieve the purpose, your team needs to know what that purpose is. Uncertain goals like “increasing market share,” “rising profits,” “strengthening market position” do not say anything at all.
Let’s add specifics
We develop a new service — CIO (Chief Information Officer) renting. It can be a brilliant idea for the creation or updating companies’ IT strategy. Though, we can increase our monthly profit. Well, the goal is becoming more precise. Better, but still not very clear.
That’s why we need measurability
‘’By renting CIOs, we can increase monthly profit by 15%” sounds more believable. But the goal without a timeframe’s like a suitcase without a handle. It seems to be a good thing, but it is useless.
So, let’s make the goal attainable
With our new outstanding service, we can increase profit per month by 15% by the end of August 2021. Not bad. But the right goals always go hand in hand with the company’s mission.
Let’s add some relevance
With Chief Information Officer renting based on our customer wishes and marketing research, we can grow monthly profit by 15% by the end of August 2021.
Take care of your team
After the first 3 positive reviews, we will give you 3 extra days off or a cash bonus.
Thus, this simple guidance helped us create a SMART and understandable goal that is enhanced by bonuses. By the way, grand celebration parties for a successful release are an excellent way to inspire and delight employees.
Little tip: Ask employees what they would be more willing to work for.
However, any project begins with the first step, so…
Divide global goals into small and quickly achievable ones
Even such a fine goal as increasing a company’s profits by 15% can be confusing. Cause it doesn’t contain the actions to realize it. It seems to be already clear WHAT, but still unclear HOW. Thus, each goal should consist of subgoals like:
- Creating promotion texts for a new service
- Placing it on all corporate channels
- Informing all former and current clients about the new service
- Collecting a semantic core for advertising
- Adding a new section of the website
- Running contextual ads, etc.
All of these tasks can also be divided into small ones. The smaller and simpler the goal, the better and faster the result.
Little tip: reframe goals into small challenges with visible results called “small triumphs.”
Any goal is achieved faster if you…
Give meaningful feedback and thoughtful awards
Every assignment should end with full feedback because it is a part of the task, like planning and doing. Don’t make workers starve for information: always explain what’s good and what’s bad about the task. Moreover, silence can be seen as ignoring and makes employees less motivated. Besides, too much criticism doesn’t work either, so we suggest the effective formula: thankfulness + praise for the strengths of the task performed + suggestions to improve the task.
Thus, two things are crucial during feedback: personalization and respect. So, praise is a quick and easy way to gain a motivated employee. Especially if it’s not a trivial “good job”.
Little tip: It is good form to check out if he or she understands exactly how to proceed.
However, you can enhance the feedback and motivation of the employee if you…
Provide respectful support and assistance
Many hands make light work.
The best thing a competent manager can do is to foster collaboration within the team. It’s normal when a person doesn’t know what to do next, and it’s quite normal when he can consult with a more experienced colleague without feeling ashamed. By the way, the leader can be an example of high-level communication: interact with the staff and ask for advice. So, mutual aid helps teach top professionals with developed soft skills. Well, now you know the secret: a kind word especially from the supervisor help works with flying colors.
Try this: Have 5-minutes-meetings when you can ask employees personally do they need some help.
Do you know what will allow your team to respect you even more? If you…
Communicate open and friendly
It doesn’t take much to call the shots. But, it is much harder to create in your company an easy and comfortable environment conducive to winning. Thought, the only way you are going to be friends with your team is to speak to them. So, if you want welcoming and friendly communication — recognize the Most Important Rule. Everyone was once a subordinate. So, don’t forget what you didn’t like about your superiors and never repeat the same thing. Be honest, transparent and friendly.
Try this: Think together about the best and worst bosses you’ve ever had.
Are you familiar with the technique of top supervision? When managers…
Give the trustworthy autonomy
People value autonomy. Everyone wants to feel in control of their life, energy, time. Autonomy displays three important messages at once: trust, recognition of professionalism, and confidence in the employee’s skills. A flexible schedule, no overly strict controls, and allowing the employee to set their deadlines can be a great strategy. You can test these aspects until all participants are satisfied.
Try this: Let employees set their working hours
Autonomy will not be so scary if you…
Accept failures humorously
We all make mistakes. It’s part of being human. A calm attitude to missteps encourages employees to learn worthy lessons from errors, so they don’t make them again. The useful mistake is one that was honestly acknowledged and ultimately led to the right decision.
The more relaxed managers are about mistakes, the sooner they learn about them from the team. So train your employees not to get caught up in mistakes but to accept them and fight them.
Little tip: Arrange a funny competition on the number of bugs and the number of fixed bugs among employees.
There will be many fewer mistakes if you…
Encourage self-development and responsibility
People get happy when they discover something new, especially when it helps them do their duties better and get more money in perspective.
Successful leaders boost personal growth. So, provide training and development opportunities for both teams and individuals that enable people to steadily improve their skill sets. Communicate with employees, get to know their interests and aspirations, and find ways to improve their skills. By the way, training does not necessarily include courses, it can be a master class, mentoring, online training, or even a book.
Little tip: Create a company’s team vision board where everyone will write what they see themselves as in a year, two, three, five, and what direction they would like to get.
Well, you’ll kill 2 birds with one stone — understand what training to provide and teach employees to take responsibility for their careers and development.
And finally the last but not the least — make your life easier and…
Delegate by interests
Try to assign tasks to employees based not only on their strengths or duties but also on their desires. You’ll see a quick boost in productivity if people are curious.
Try this: Ask about the employee’s hobbies and ideas for team-building activities — this will help you be aware of their interests.
To conclude
If you come to grips with motivation, you will receive measurable results and happy workers. But if you decide to delegate by interests, you won’t find a better partner than SweetSoft. We appreciate people, value their talents, and put together the best teams for the boldest goals.
We are cut out for team assembling and motivation. Contact us today and make sure.
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