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5 things that motivate your employees more than money - Viewpoint - careers advice blog Were you to ask your employees to work for free, chances are that most would decline the invitation. But apart from telling us what we already know â€" namely that money is important for putting food on the table â€" it doesn’t tell us how big a motivating factor money really is once  our  basic needs are met. There have been many studies into the subject over the years, and one conclusion they all reach  is that, for most of us, money’s more of a sub-motivator than a prime mover. It’s the factors which stir our intrinsic ambitions which truly motivate us, such as increased autonomy, acquiring new skills, being able to express ourselves â€" and all the other factors which I’ve outlined below. You cant buy loyalty The workforce of my resident country Japan is famously loyal to their employers. It’s not uncommon for a worker to remain with the same company for their whole lifetime â€" a phenomenon commonly described as ‘shushin koyo’, or ‘lifetime employment’. However, as our 2016 Hays Asia Salary Guide shows, this attitude is increasingly on the wane. As global fluidity increases companies cannot necessarily rely on the abstract idea of loyalty alone, and will need to look for other motivators. Of course there are still many people who consider pay to be the prime means of motivation, but if we’re completely honest with ourselves, pay can only motivate us so much. How motivated would you feel earning a six figure salary working in a job where you are worked to the point of exhaustion every day in a dilapidated office, surrounded by people who resent you, reporting into a manager that doesn’t invest any time, effort or appreciation in you? Money is not the be all and end all. With that in mind, here are five  other ways by which you can galvanize your workforce: 1. Learning and development Whats more motivating than being encouraged to become a better version of you? By up-skilling your employees you’re showing them both that they matter to the business, and also that there is room for progression within their role. What’s more motivating than being encouraged and supported to become a better version of you? I’d recommend conducting a skills assessment before deciding on what training you’re going to organise for each employee. The employee will better appreciate, and be more motivated by, a sensible and well-considered plan of training for them. You need not worry if your business/department has no budget for learning and development â€" many don’t â€" there should be plenty of free and relevant networking events and conferences your employees can attend, you just need to look around. One of the biggest challenges that the most recent Hays Global Skills Index identified was a talent shortage in many key sectors across the globe. In many industries around the world there is a significant gap between the skills employers need and the skills available. Therefore it’s not just for the employee’s benefit that you should invest in their skills development, but also your own and even the market within which you operate. 2. A clear path of progression It’s not enough just to send employees off on training courses though. What’s even more motivating for most employees is being shown that there are more rungs on the career ladder that they can climb to within your business. One striking learning to come out of the recent Hays Global Gender Diversity Report was that only 42 per cent of women and 58 per cent of men feel as though they have the opportunity in their current role to promote themselves and communicate their ambitions. Similarly, more than half the people we surveyed in our Hays Asia Salary Guide (54 per cent) cited the wish to face new challenges as a key reason for their departure from an organisation, while almost the same percentage (48 per cent) indicated a lack of progression as the cause. All of these grievances can be fairly easily resolved by clearly articulating a plan of progression for your employees. Make sure that you regularly (ideally at least twice a year) have meetings during which you discuss the employee’s ambitions and their promotion prospects within the business. If their promotion aspirations can’t currently be realised (due to lack of financial resource or that position being currently filled) then giving that employee increased autonomy or say within the business could be a satisfactory compromise. That real sense of effort being rewarded with wider opportunities, whether it’s a promotion within the same department, another area of the business, or working in a new role in another country altogether, will fuel the motivational drive. 3. Recognition We all get a kick out of being acknowledged for a job well done Employees must be acknowledged and compensated equally for all of their contributions and achievements â€" this is almost what Herzog would have termed a ‘hygiene factor’ (something which doesn’t motivate if offered, but does demotivate if not). However you can do more than just the minimum of remunerating someone for their efforts, and issuing the occasional pat on the back. Recognition comes in many forms, and it’s largely up to you and your good people management skills how well you execute it. Some employees would be greatly stirred by a formal recognition in front of other colleagues, such as a certificate or a team lunch, while others would prefer some extra praise and insight from yourself. What’s certain is that we all get a kick out of being acknowledged for a job well done. 4.  Autonomy and responsibility It’s important that your employees know where they stand within your business and feel like a vital cog â€" you can help improve their sense of this by giving them more meaningful tasks and responsibilities. The more impact an employee has in your business, the more likely they are to feel connected to the business, and to aggregate the business’ success with their own. Employees should also feel as though they have room and license to voice their opinions and ideas where necessary, without fear of being ignored or pulled rank on. Welcome feedback from your team wherever possible, and instil in them the feeling that their views matter to you and the business. It’s also important that your team is allowed to express themselves within their work, and that they aren’t constrained to doing things in a restrictive, recycled way that you or the business has imposed upon them. Some progressive businesses, such as Sweaty Betty and Microsoft, operate a ‘flexi-hours’ policy, where they allow their employees to choose their own working hours. While I can see the motivational benefits of this, it’s something that’s only really practical for certain types of businesses, and not something I’m about to open up to my team. 5. Work environment Creating a workplace that people feel inspired by is a way of maintaining a motivational buzz Work-life balance is a motivating factor that falls a little bit under both this and the previous sub-heading. Work-life balance is important, and can be greatly helped by being granted extra autonomy or flexibility, but it’s not just by increasing the life side of the balance that you improve your wellbeing. There are many ways you can help improve employees work environment which will greatly benefit their work-life balance, and thus their overall satisfaction, productivity and motivation. Convivial working conditions such as proper ventilation, lighting and cleanliness are to be expected (and are again something we would categorise as ‘hygiene factors’), however many companies have now advanced their work environment offering considerably, and consider it to be a real differentiator when it comes to attracting clients. Creating a workplace that people enjoy being in and feel inspired by is another way of maintaining the motivational buzz â€" although that doesn’t mean blowing the budget on hiring interior decorators or buying the most expensive espresso machine. Why not ask your team to come up with suggestions for ways to improve the workplace environment, agree a wish-list, and then action  at least some of these tangible, collective rewards when a specific target is reached? A sense of friendship and belongingness is also a sub-category of ‘work environment’ which serves as the most powerful antidote to absenteeism and conflict within the workplace. Team building activities can help strengthen trust, respect, comradery and, ultimately, motivation. Motivate before its too late By nurturing your best and brightest and giving them the skills they require to further their careers, companies can keep the smiles on employees’ faces, while preventing a talent drain that could hurt them immeasurably in years to come. I hope you have found the above advice useful. Here are some other Viewpoint blogs to help you progress your career: How to create an engaged workforce Is your business doing too much typing and not enough talking? 10 tips towards becoming a better communicator When is the best time to have a job interview? 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Throughout the end of the week, youll work with a gathering of aliens to make another organization and plan for its development. When Sunday night pitches move around, youll have a decent comprehension of a portion of the attributes it takes to be an effective business person e.g., the capacity to work under tension, lead a group, and wear numerous caps. 2. On the off chance that You Have a Business however Youre Struggling to Gain Customers, Try Lean Startup Machine On the off chance that youve attempted a couple of Startup Weekends and are hoping to additionally fabricate your enterprising abilities, or if youre running a new business that is in its beginning times, take a stab at going to a Lean Startup Machine occasion close to you. This weekend is intended explicitly for the individuals who are attempting to recognize and fabricate client driven items and associations. Lean Startup Machine occasions work in the system set up by Eric Riess The Lean Startup and crafted by Steve Blank. You dislike hearing client criticism particularly if those clients dont esteem your product or administration however by discovering what clients think now as opposed to later, you can start to comprehend the problems your clients do have and abstain from burning through your time and cash building things that nobody needs to purchase. While this occasion is likewise moderately simple to get to, a toughness and a readiness to converse with outsiders are important to get the full advantage. 3. On the off chance that You Have Technical Skills, Try a Hackathon Regardless of whether youre an understudy or an expert designer, hackathons can give you the time, backing, and opportunity to fabricate what youve consistently needed to construct. While hackathons change long, force, and center, you can locate a decent assortment of understudy focused on occasions at Major League Hacking. On the off chance that youre in my neighborhood (the Midwest), Hack Midwest is the flag occasion of the year. There are even dispersed hackathons, open to anybody in the nation, as the ATT NYU Connect Ability Challenge. Its additionally worth referencing that these occasions regularly have entirely appealing money prizes (and boasting rights) in question. 4. On the off chance that Youre a Maker, Inventor, or Hardware Hacker, Try Make48 In the event that utilizing Arduinos to make your own home security framework isnt cutting it for you any longer, you should attempt an end of the week long occasion like Make48. While this specific rivalry is based here in Kansas City, there are comparative mechanical autonomy fabricates, creation challenges, and different makeathons around the nation. On the off chance that you get more joy out of making physical answers for issues than coding programming, producer occasions like this offer a hands-on equal to a hackathon. 5. In case You're Just a Little Unbalanced, Try StartupBus It is safe to say that you are a normal ultra-long distance runner? Does a Tough Mudder sound like amusing to you? You could possibly need to take a stab at being a buspreneur. StartupBus is a four-to-multi day startup serious made by a group of business people who had gone to Startup Weekends and asked themselves, Could we do that on a moving transport? In the event that youre welcomed to turn into a buspreneur (indeed, the program is welcome just and necessitates that you be associated enough to discover previous buspreneurs and secure a greeting from them), you will end up confronting all the difficulties one may envision the demonstration of attempting to fabricate an organization on a moving vehicle would involve e.g., patchy as well as inadequate Internet get to, restricted assets, movement ailment, ice storm, and so forth. Yet, effective buspreneurs figure out how to flourish in this condition, making sure about paying clients, collecting seed cash, and earning national media inclusion for a scarcely brought forth thought. Its a pot, however in the event that startup life doesn't appear to be overwhelming enough for you all alone, you might need to think about giving an excursion a shot the StartupBus. Notwithstanding how you find out about the startup way of life, getting an opportunity to give it a shot before bouncing in with the two feet can be useful from multiple points of view. You can make companions and start to fabricate a system of help to incline toward when difficulties turn crazy. You can begin to comprehend the structure and procedure of testing and emphasizing rapidly. Regardless of whether you ought to conclude that startup life isnt an ideal choice for you, your time spent fiddling with the startup world won't be squandered. You can apply you new comprehension of how to make enormous things occur with hardly any assets to any part of your profession. Renditions of this article initially showed up Startup Grind and BusinessCollective. Melissa Roberts is the president of Free State Strategy Group, an indispensable open issues firm the assists customers with creating and execute grassroots promotion methodologies to manufacture drew in and responsive networks both on the web and disconnected. Melissa is a pleased Kansas City startup network feeder, serving on the Board of the Kansas City Startup Foundation/Kansas City Startup Village, working with the Enterprise Center in Johnson County and the Mid-America Angels speculation arrange, and informing a bunch regarding nearby new businesses in vital interchanges and advanced advertising endeavors.

Why nighttime showers can help us sleep better at night

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