Motivate your staff!

Maybe you have a staff of one, 30, or more - you are their leader to guide them and in turn they will help your business prosper. What can you do to motivate them to deliver results? Make them relevant.

It is a simple tool, if used properly, will yield exponential results. On any team or organization their is some objective that needs to be accomplished. Does your business develop high-tech equipment to sell to customers or do you run a car dealership? It doesn't matter what your objective is, what matters is telling each employee how they are important to that objective. People want to feel they are relevant, they want to know what they do makes a difference. It's up to you to tell them.

For instance, at our example high-tech company it is easy to figure out how the engineers are relevant but what about the accounting department or other support functions? You have them because business would sink without them - tell them that. Tell them that accounting is important because it keeps track of our vendors payments so we can have a good relationship with the vendors which helps us get our supplies on time so we can manufacture and deliver to our customers. Tell them their importance with conviction and sincerity. You will find wonderful results. Vendor management will become reliable and consistent. You will have better supply chain control. Your production forecasts will be better because of it. Your customers will return because you are reliable. Your business will make more money.

Show you staff that they matter and you will find a staff that becomes more productive.