Inspiration and Motivation In The Workplace

Improving and Maintaining Motivation in the Workplace is a challenge all leaders face at some point in time. Employee engagement surveys and job satisfaction surveys often point to a lack of team member engagement, inspiration and good leadership. These articles have been designed to ensure that when your team has to complete the dreaded 'employee job satisfaction survey' that your team's results are positive.

I would prefer to use the term Inspiring Others - however it seems not to many people are searching for that term ... so in order for you to find this page and site I have had to use the word motivation. :(

Motivation generally requires someone else to be there prodding and poking to keep you going because you would probably rather be doing something else. Inspiration is self-generating. Certainly there may have been an outside influence initially when someone role-modelled or set the circumstances that enable a person to feel inspired, but once inspired it is self-fuelling.

The articles listed below have been written to enable you to inspire others to step into their potential and want to give of their all ... because they want to not because you are dangling carrots or sticks at them.

My hope is that the information on the following pages will inspire you to create a best place to work ... one where people enjoy turning up for work and feel that they can give of their best and are inspired by the work they do.

Inspiration and Motivation In The Workplace Articles

Positive Attitudes In The Workplace: Done well you can reduce turnover, employee complaints and make your team a place that people look forward to being a part of ...

Trust in the Workplace: Trust is one of the building blocks for motivation in the workplace. Trust does depend upon history, but at times it also requires a leap of faith ...

Talent Management: Talent Management is used a lot today to describe the various activities an organization can undertake to ensure they keep people in their seats longer ...

Are You Inspired or Desperate?: There are only two things that get people out of bed - inspiration or desperation. To motivate and inspire others (and yourself) use this matrix to identify which quadrant people are operating from

Top 5 Employee Motivation Techniques: You have a vast range of choices as to how you can inspire and motivate your team. These are the top 5 employee motivation techniques to use if you want to create a high performance workplace ... 

Successful Employee Motivation: Many people find themselves trapped in careers and jobs that don't enable them to be free-flowing, natural, effortless ...

Effective Ways to Reward Employees:  Most reward and recognition programs inhibit high performance and encourage even more of the traditional behaviors that originate from command and control style organizations ...

Humor In the Workplace: Sometimes to improve motivation in the workplace you need to lighten up the work environment with a bit of humor. But what to do when humor is inappropriate?

Managing Executive Stress: Use these seven tactics to help you stay at the top of your game ...

Signs of a Toxic Workplace Discover the signs of a toxic workplace and the workplace conflict scenarios that will drag your team down ..

Learned Helplessness How to identify learned helplessness in the workplace and how to overcome it ...

Providing Challenging Work Challenging Work is important if you want to engage and energize the people in your business. People want to feel ...

Conducting a Successful Employee Review Next to employee discipline, the formal employee performance review and appraisal sessions are probably the most dreaded leadership activity. See what it looks like in a high performance organization ...

Performance Appraisal Process Examples Performance appraisals can be a nightmare or a stepping stone to greater performance. Make sure before the actual appraisal meeting you have three lists ready to get the most from the meeting (regardless of whether you are the appraiser or the appraisee) ...

Download a Performance Appraisal Form More on successful employee reviews and download a sample performance appraisal form ...

Avoid the 360 Degree Appraisal Time Bomb A 360 degree appraisal is often a significant factor in any leader's career. Discover what you the leader and your organization need to do to avoid the catastrophe that 360 degree performance evaluations can become ...

Creating An Inspiring Work Environment Download this ebook and use the tips and techniques to create an environment in which people are inspired to be at their best ...

More Thoughts On Inspiration and Motivation In The Workplace

How do you motivate someone to be fully engaged and passionate? Well you can't. Motivation comes from within. It is not something that can be externally driven.

Sure at times your encouragement, inspiration and support ... or your bribes and threats ... will get people rolling, however, it won't keep them rolling for long or coming to work with a spring in their step.

You may be thinking, 'look in my own experience I have either been motivated by the offer of reward or the threat of a punishment and it certainly got me to take action (work long hours, get a promotion)'. You may have even successfully done it with others (tidy your room up and I'll take you to the movies).

But the question to ask is 'were you doing the job to your best and the moment the threat or reward was removed did you continue the behavior?' And that's the kicker. For many people the answer is no.

The minute the threat or inducement disappears so too does the behavior. Inducement or threats certainly get short-term behaviours, but certainly not long-term commitment. And they require the punisher or rewarder to always be there and more often than not over time they have to up the ante to get the same level of performance.

One of the most important responsibilities you have as a leader is to create the environment that enables people to perform to their potential and get any distractions out of their way.

If you want to discover more on how to create inspiration rather than motivation in the workplace, then download Creating An Inspiring Work Environment:

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