5 Tips to Keep Your Team Engaged

Not much can be accomplished with a team that is dissatisfied with their job, unclear about their goals, and unappreciated by management. Your job as a manager is to provide the motivation that keeps your team focused and engaged.

Here are 5 tips from employee engagement training experts on how to motivate your team:

1. Money helps. Financial rewards for a job well done are always appreciated but don’t stop there…
2. Recognition matters. Employees like to be noticed and called out for results that are “above and beyond.”
3. Celebrating is good. Whether it’s an unexpected pizza for lunch or a gift card to a fancy restaurant, add a note of fun and celebration to the way you recognize superior performance.
4. A common mission engages. If the team clearly understands and buys into the purpose of their effort, they are motivated to strive and succeed together. 
5. A balance of challenge and achievement keeps the team on target for success. A bit of tension between a job that requires extra effort and actual realization of the objective is the secret to keeping everyone happily on task.