Motivating Your Team Remotely
We invited Benjamin Loh. A distinguished speaker and one of the youngest to be designated with a Certified Speaking Professionals (CSP).
He was more than happy to share with what a leader can do to motivate their Team. From his many years coaching teams and leaders from different industries. He shares how one should be speaking to their team to motivate them to achieve goals and meet deadlines together.
Lets take a look at what else he has to see to motivate a team of high achievers 👇👇👇
As business leaders, I am sure we constantly try to be the best for our team and there are a lot more things that we know we can do to be a greater leader.
Some of it are:
Showing your appreciation towards your team
Listening actively to your team
Having confidence in the choices that you make
Believing in yourself and your team
Be the team’s source of motivation - Mentoring your team. Pushing them to their best.
Recognising their accomplishments.
Online Motivation
Now due to COVID, we are all unable to communicate face-to-face as much as we'd like to with our team so how can we be a better leader in motivating our team online?
The team’s level of motivation depends on whether the people mind working somewhere else but not in office. Take a look at the statistics below.
As you can see here, those who were given a choice on where they can work are more motivated to do their as compared to those who did not had any chance to decide where to work.
With the COVID situation going on for the past 2 years here Singapore, most of us are forced to work from home. We have seen some who love working from home and some prefer working at their office. Hence, it really depends on your team. Find out first how is your team feeling.
❌ Misconceptions On Employees’ Motivations ❌
There are a lot of misconceptions about employee’s motivations and the top few common ones would be:
Rewards are indisputable motivator
It is easy to identify the needs of its employees
A happy person is more motivated to work
Some tasks are not motivating
The main motivation of an employee is money
Everyone has the same kind of motivation
