One key to keeping staff motivated and avoiding burnout is by celebrating and acknowledging their accomplishments. Make sure your employees are setting realistic, measurable goals and that they are given the opportunity to re-evaluate their progress and see their accomplishments. Realizing what they have achieved will motivate and encourage them. Incentives can foster motivation as well. Tom's organization provides team bonuses instead of individual ones, and he has found that this cultivates a positive, team-oriented environment, leading to improved productivity and efficiency.
Another key to reducing burnout is to embrace curiosity. Be curious and driven with a desire to learn. Be a life-long learner who constantly reads and strives to expand your knowledge base. Embrace change and see it as an opportunity to become better and to learn. Modeling this behavior will help facilitate this same energy and culture in your business, and most successful firms exude that same energy and have that same culture. According to research conducted by Professor Francesca Gino, when people stay curious, they perform better and are more engaged.
In addition to acknowledging and embracing change, it is important to keep in mind that we all make mistakes and that the important thing is to learn from them. This helps us to grow, be more efficient, and take ownership of the solution. We also need to allow our employees to make mistakes. It’s easy at times to fix problems ourselves. However, when we do that, we keep employees from learning from their mistakes. Staff in our organizations have grown faster because we have had them learn to solve problems themselves.
Continue to look for opportunities and don’t be afraid of change. This will help reinvigorate your employees, leading to decreased burnout and improved motivation and employee retention.
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