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Creating an Inspirational Environment
Part 1
You can't motivate
employees. In fact, you can't motivate anyone but yourself; however,
you can create an environment that inspires employees to motivate
themselves!
What Keeps Employees Loyal
to a Job and Company? An inspirational environment that's fun and
exciting! A well thought out and structured program that allows employees
to be themselves and use all their skills, both mental and physical, leads
to happy employees who want to continue working in that capacity.
Here are 3 of the 6 key
factors you need to create employee loyalty and satisfaction:
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Make sure that your managers
are approachable and accessible to employees—it can be your company's
greatest asset! Create an open door policy, encourage managers to walk
around work areas and make eye contact with employees, have them get to
know a little about their employees so they can develop a rapport with
them.
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Constantly use humor.
Proper on the job humor is a stress and anxiety reducer, keeps work
fun and opens the door to creativity. Research some books on workplace
humor, insert a bit of humor in the company newsletters/bulletin boards
and announcements. Create spontaneous awards for those who keep their
sense of humor in tough work situations.
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Remember that employees are
not robots. They need to know that their thoughts and concerns are being
listened to. Hold weekly open air discussions to let the employees
express their opinions and ideas openly and candidly. Managers should
guide the session with a topic or theme for each meeting. All points or
issues that are obviously of concern in these discussions should be noted
and posted with resolutions and solutions. Employees who speak up and
offer suggestions should be rewarded with the satisfaction of knowing
their concerns were heard by and acted upon.
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