Low Cost Ways to Motivate Your Employees

The news media is overwhelming us with "doom and gloom". (As my wife says, they are really at it). We can successfully counteract this in the workplace . One of the easiest ways to accomplish this is in meetings. If you conduct a weekly staff meeting, start out the with something positive-it can be professional or personal i.e. "we just landed a new account, John's son made Eagle Scout, Marshall is a new grandfather". And finish the meeting on a positive note too. What have you got to lose by trying this approach? The results may surprise you.

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Low Cost Ways to Motivate Your Employees

Invite a local speaker to present to your employees on useful and timely subjects such as better personal financial management, improving family relationships, or successfully managing stress. This is an effective way to show your employees that you really care about each of them as individuals.

Low Cost Ways to Motivate Your Employees

Include a thank-you note in an employee's paycheck highlighting something great the employee did during the prior week. Make this an on-going, weekly habit-"spread the appreciation around" to other employees.

Employees love to be recognized!!!

Low Cost Ways to Motivate Your Employees

You are a manager at your organization, and you have employees who are doing extra work because of a recent "reduction-in-force" ("RIF"). Offer to help one of them who is under pressure to meet a deadline. Stuff envelopes, answer the phone, match up accounts payable invoices with corresponding back-up-whatever it takes to show her and others that you've "got their back."