The after-effects of the pandemic is significantly affecting motivation levels of employees across the globe, especially the young people.
According to research, 44% of employees under 35 years of age say that a lack of motivation has been hindering their performance at work since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020.
How Can you Help your Employees Get Their Motivation Back?
According to Lora Park, associate professor and director of Self and Motivation Lab, motivation drops if you feel a deficit in three key areas: your autonomy, competence and relationships.
The pandemic has impacted all three areas. On the bright side, we are here to tell you not all is not lost.
Here are 5 ways in which you can boost and motivate your employees:
1. Gamify Tasks
Want to motivate employees to hit a specific milestone? Make it into a game.
Introduce gameplay to your team for the organisation’s most important tasks. This will help foster healthy competition and would make tasks more fun!
Instead of setting tasks, introduce a reward or a prize that will be awarded if the task is completed. Everyone loves games and it will positively affect the team’s mood as well. Companies like Google, Ford and Marriott have used gamification to motivate their employees.
Omnicare, an organisation that produces pharmacy management software, set up a series of achievements and challenges that its reps could reach. The reps were given a challenge at the beginning of every shift. For example, a help desk support analyst might receive a note with a challenge “Today find three customers who have a specific problem with billing and help them.” As the employees progressed through these series of challenges, they were given short-term rewards that were achievement and recognition oriented.
Gamification helps motivate people not just because it offers them a reward, but because it gives them recognition through status, power, money or more.
2. Create Short & Easy Tasks
Break business goals into smaller achievable tasks.
Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist in his book Smarter Faster Better states that putting easy-to-achieve items at the top means you’re using that list for “mood repair”. In the pandemic, this mood repair strategy may bear fruit but it is also important to not focus too much on the thrill associated with task completion. Instead of focusing on simple tasks, management should ensure that employees have SMART goals.
This long period of the pandemic has somewhere ruined people’s social and work life.
We are restricted to outings and meeting new people.With remote work becoming the norm, colleagues are unable to physically connect with their teams and collaborate together in the same office.
In this digitised world, it is only possible through online meeting sites and activities.
One can use different video calling platforms through which one can connect with their team.
The most common platforms using which one can join a virtual world are:Zoom SkypeGoogle MeetHouse PartyMicrosoft TeamsThere are several other apps that let you connect with your team.
Move on from Zoom happy hours as we present to you some new ideas to try to amp up the energy of your remote teams.Virtual Team Building ActivitiesWhen you connect with your colleagues through engaging activities, it will increase their comfort and improve their productivity.
Human resource management's key goals are to ensure that the organization has a competent and willing workforce, as well as to meet the needs, aspirations, values, and dignity of individuals/employees while also taking into account the community's and country's socio-economic challenges.
Organizational goals include profitability, growth and expansion, competition, survival stability, and diversity.
As a result, human resources are managed and utilized in order to fulfill corporate goals.
The purpose of HRM is to provide a stable working environment with centralized data and efficient operations.
An HR manager must be proactive in advocating for workplace culture improvement methods.
Small gestures, such as a swift and comprehensive onboarding process, can go a long way toward promoting a pleasant workplace image.Team integrationOne of HRM's main responsibilities and goals is to guarantee that teams operate well together.
