Employee motivation is the ability to get your employees to do their jobs better and more efficiently. This should be part of the training for all new hires, as well as an important part of ongoing or ongoing training. There are many ways to motivate your employees.

John C. Maxwell (a well-known author and motivational speaker) has the best views on employee motivation. He feels that you need to develop the leaders around you. You do this effectively by assigning tasks to people based on their particular strengths and talents. This sets them up for success. When employees feel successful, they are naturally motivated to achieve more. This allows you to assign them increasingly complicated tasks without the worry of failing.

There is more to motivating employees than simply assigning tasks correctly. To truly motivate your employees, you need to let them know what your company vision is. They need to know and see the big picture. It’s so much easier to chart a course (and stay on course) when everyone on board knows where they’re headed. Part of the employee’s training should be what the mission of the company is and what his vision is for the future. Only through the transmission of this information, the employee will feel an integral part of the organization. However, it is more than simply giving them this information. You have to make the employee feel that they fit in and that they are really contributing to the mission and vision of the company.

So employee motivation is more than training and having a mission statement and vision. How do you know if you’re doing it right? You’ll know if you’re doing it right because your employees will tell you. Properly motivated employees don’t leave. That is why it is so important to motivate and train them properly. When people feel like they really are part of the vision, they want to stay. Look at the COSTCO company. They have a very low turnover rate. They promote from within. Its employees are part of the vision and mission of the company. They receive training from day one about the company, its mission and where they fit. They are also shown how they can grow with the company.

Proper employee motivation can save a company time, money and resources. It is more profitable to keep existing employees through proper training and motivation than to constantly recruit and train new ones.