The Magic of Employee Motivation

I have been working in the corporate sector from the last 4 years. I usually wonder how organizations usually achieve their business goals, majorly increasing the bottom-line, on quarterly and annually basis. There are a lot of ways to do so for instance, acquisitions and mergers, advertisement, sales and so on. But the most fundamental way of doing so is to invest in its Human Resources. If you have the quality Human resource, your organization can do wonders.

In general, Multinational organizations invest a lot on their HR and by a lot I literally mean A LOT. Whether it's training and development or motivational or recreational activities - whatever way you choose, if your people are happy , they can keep your customers happy - which means strengthening of strategic relationships and more profit.

I am glad to see that my organization, that is IT and IT enabled services provider working on global level, has taken an initiative of awarding the high performers on quarterly basis. Usually, such kind of award distribution ceremony used to occur on the annual basis. Having it on quarterly basis will surely have a huge impact on employees performance. They will get to know more about their performance quality on frequent basis plus having this kind of performance endorsement by the management on qaurterly basis will keep the morale boosted.

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"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily". –Zig Ziglar

I personally think that managers and organizations should learn to motivate and appreciate their employees. There are multiple ways to do so, it is not necessary that you have to spend money to motivate your employee, but few words of appreciation can do a lot of magic! Try it and you will see the impact. I have heard few managers saying, that they don't want to appreciate their sub-ordinates and teams on very frequent basis because it might decrease the value of appreciation or some even say, why do we need to appreciate on fulfilling the core or routine job responsibilities - it is their job to perform! Well, you make sense but trust me, whenever an employee do any task - even a single task that is part of his job, it is very important to spend few minutes in discussion with the employee to appreciate on the good things and guide on the bad. It does not only increase the morale but it also inculcate learning culture in your team, department and organization.