5 Strategies to Motivate Your Employees

These five strategies can guide managers in increasing motivation in their work units: Establish clear performance expectations The manager’s initial effort in increasing motivation should be to establish clear goals and expectations for employee and team performance. Research shows rather consistently that employees are more likely to own goals if they believe they have been sufficiently involved in the goal-setting process. Furthermore, these goals and expectations must be formulated in such a way that they are sufficiently specific and consistent and appropriately challenging for an employee or team. Facilitate outcomes by coaching and by removing obstacles to goal achievement After…