Create a culture of motivation

Leaders who wish to create a culture of motivation focus on their people’s feelings, motivators and various ways to encourage others to continually grow and develop. LeaderX discusses performance and goals regularly to make sure their people are on track and motivated to achieve. When motivating your employees becomes a priority, your vision, mission and goals become so much easier to achieve. 

Employee morale is essential when developing a great team and a healthy organisational culture. Your capacity to create and nurture a motivational culture will determine the success and happiness of the organisation. It starts with a motivated leader who wishes to develop their motivational skills that inspires the others to perform. In order to create a motivational culture, they must learn to develop specific leadership skills that will allow them to inspire others to perform to the best of their abilities.  

This is how you can create a positive motivational culture: 

  • Career and goals conversations - It is important to focus on your people's learning and growth. To create a motivational culture in your organisation, you must understand the personal and professional objectives of your employees. Take the time to ask your people what their 5-year goals are and what they hope to accomplish. If you know what goals they want to achieve, you’re more likely to help build a culture where you can support them and encourage them to succeed.  
  • Employee engagement - Sometimes managers stop focusing on staff engagement which is a vital aspect of creating a motivational culture. Engage with your people daily. Make sure you take time to greet your people and give an encouraging word. Be interested in their goals and aspirations. If possible, including your people in activities that aren’t necessarily their job since this could open their minds to new experiences and allow them to grow and become more motivated.
  • Lead with positivity - If you show motivation, your people will follow. Motivated leaders often have infectious personalities that inspires others around them. Maintaining a positive mental attitude can encourage your people to get through tough times and difficult situations. Your employees look to you to build them up with motivation, so if you’re positive about everything, they’re encouraged to be more positive too. 
  • Understand personalities - When you understand how your people's personalities influence the working environment and what drives each personality, you will be in a strong position to lead effectively. In particular, knowledge of personality translates into effectiveness in hiring employees, leading employees and managing yourself.                                             
  • Be bold, brave and courageous - To create a culture of motivation, you must understand what it truly means to lead from the front. As a leader, creating a positive motivational culture means that you have won the trust of your people. In order to win your people’s trust and improve morale, leaders must challenge the way things are every now and then to make the team better and stronger.

A positive motivational culture is not easy to build — it’s why high performing cultures are such a powerful competitive advantage. Yet organisations that build great cultures are able to meet the demands of the fast-paced, customer-centric, digital world we live in. More and more organisations are beginning to realize that culture can’t be left to chance. Leaders have to treat culture building as an engineering discipline, not a magical one. 

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