Motivating Your Team: 6 Proven Ways To Engage Team At Work

by Gabby Davis Mar 19,2022
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“To win in the marketplace, you must first win in the workplace!” —Doug Conant, Founder, Constant Leadership.

As a manager, it is your responsibility to lead your team effectively. The way you conduct yourself before them, affects their productivity significantly. There are many challenging issues that you have to deal with as a manger. One of such issues is not being able to improve team engagement at work.

As a manager, you want your teammates to collaborate and collectively work towards the organization’s objectives. But how can they contribute to the organization’s goals when they aren’t engaged enough to fulfill their own goals at workplace?

This article will provide a few amazingly ways on how to engage a team at work. You can also use them as employee motivation and engagement strategies to metamorphose the organization into a dynamic and goal-driven workplace.

How to keep employees engaged and motivated?

Employee engagement is one of the most crucial factors that affects organizational productivity, growth and sustainability, innovation, and revenue generation.

Globally, It is considered the most important business strategy to build a skilled, knowledgable, and result-driven workforce. Therefore, keeping employees engaged should be your foremost task. Check out the below ways on how to engage your team at work.

Also Read: 5 common teamwork challenges you must know about

1. Set Challenging But Realistic Goals

A study by Gartner found that aligning employee goals and expectations with organizational objectives has a great impact on their performance; a 22% increase in employee performance was noticed in the study.

Goals are very important to complete any task. They give you a sense of direction on what needs to be done to accomplish your tasks effectively. They motivate you to put your best efforts into work.

Set challenging goals for your team members but make sure that they are realistic and attainable. This helps your team stay motivated and engaged at work.

Also read: 4 creative team-building activities

2. Recognize Good Work

As a manager, it is important for you to keep track of your team members’ performance and help them improve it from time to time. More important than tracking, is recognizing good work.

When your team members go above and beyond to achieve their goals, recognize their efforts and reward them.

3. Trust Your Employees

how to engage a team at work

One of the most common issues at workplace among teams and managers is lack of trust. Employees do not trust their managers until their managers signal their trust to them. One way to do this is trying to communicate honestly with your team members and gradually giving up control over them.

You should be tolerant to any mistakes made by your team members and view it as an opportunity for them to learn. This will gradually lead to building mutual trust. You cannot build trust overnight; it requires lot of patience and time to develop.

Also Read: 5 characteristics of a high performance team

4. Track Employee Productivity

Once you set goals for your team members, it is important to keep track of their progress on it and the effect of the progress on the overall productivity of the organization.

This helps you understand, if the goals you set are enough motivating and engaging. Frequent tracking of progress and productivity allows you to make changes to these goals if they aren’t productive.

5. Schedule Team-Building Activities

Team-building activities help you break the barrier and enable meaningful communication among the team members. It is said to motivate employees and promote creativity.

Schedule team-building activities so that your team members learn to collaborate with each other which can help them collectively work towards organizational productivity.

Also read: How to manage stress of a remote team?

6. Keep Lines Of Communication Open

Keeping lines of communication open for your team members has a lot of benefits besides keeping them engaged at work. It builds trust among managers and their team. You can ask for frequent feedback from your team and make sure that it’s confidential.

In a long run this practice helps your team have meaningful and open-ended discussions with each other and helps create a positive work culture.

Conclusion

Team engagement serves multiple purposes, such as higher employee satisfaction, lower absenteeism, higher retention, better customer acquisition, and business generation. To create a stronghold position in the market, it is crucial to have an engaged and productive workforce that is ready to go the extra mile in achieving organizational objectives. We hope the employee engagement and motivation strategies discussed in this article will help you improve team engagement in your organization.


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Gabby Davis

Gabby Davis is the Lead Trainer for the US Division of the Customer Experience Team. She develops and implements processes and collaterals related to the client onboarding experience and guides clients across all tiers through the initial implementation of Engagedly as well as Mentoring Complete. She is passionate about delivering stellar client experiences and ensuring high adoption rates of the Engagedly product through engaging and impactful training and onboarding.

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