Answer:*Be Realistic With Your Expectations
*Recognize Good Work
*Focus On The Long Term
Explanation:As a leader, it’s your responsibility to make sure employees aren’t feeling overworked or overwhelmed, they likely won’t have the courage to raise that as an issue.
This might be hard for you to do depending on what the organization’s goals are, but more than anything you should be having open and honest discussions with your team to see if expectations are too high.
Try your best to remove that fear and let employees know that it’s okay to raise that as an issue.
2. Recognize Good Work
Recognizing your employees is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to increase job satisfaction.
The only thing it requires of you is to be more mindful of what’s going on around you.
Going back to what we mentioned earlier, increasing your emotional intelligence will help you become more mindful and appreciative of what your team is doing.
Our research found that 63% of employees feel like they don’t get enough praise. This is a huge opportunity for leaders to step up and make their employees proud of their work.
There are many tools to help you with recognition (Bonusly is one we’ve use in the past), it could be something as simple as setting up a public Slack channel to put your praise in.
give kudos in Slack
3. Focus On The Long Term
Short-term thinking or looking for those “quick wins” are not only bad for business, but can be incredibly frustrating for employees.
In order for employees to get motivated, they need to see the same long term vision that the senior leadership team has. This plays into having a mission and core values that you adhere to, because the mission is long term and can get employees excited.
Ask your employees to think about, where do they see your organization in 10 years from now?
Once they start thinking about those answers, discuss them as a team and you’ll see how motivating it can be for them.
