25 Tips For Motivating Your Team Members

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Bas De Baar recently posted an article with an abundance of great tips for engaging and motivating your employees: 25 Sure-fire Ways To Motivate Your Team Members. Like myself, Bas focuses on project management, and this post is directed at motivating project teams. Motivation is part of employee engagement so I thought I'd sharea few of my favorite tips from the list:

1. Always start with yourself; to motivate others you have to be motivated yourself and should look for positives in all situations. As a role model, if you are energetic and inviting your team will have confidence in you and will follow willingly.

2. Share the information you have about the project and give them a sense of ownership. It is their project; they should know the circumstances and limitations surrounding the project. This can lead to team members coming up with good suggestions as well.

9. Everyone eats, take individual team members out to lunch, discuss trivial things as well as work related matters and just let them enjoy the time. Its free lunch to them and your time is well spent because at the end of it you have established a relationship from which you get fresh ideas and a willing worker who knows he is valued.

21. Spot the motivators within your team; there are individuals that put a spark in the atmosphere, they are active and they compel others to show the same energy without ever saying it. If you have a good motivator prioritize his career development plans so even if there is no room for vertical growth, he gets satisfaction from horizontal growth within the organization.

Read more here: http://blog.softwareprojects.org/motivate-your-team-members-248.html

Thanks to Bas for the excellent tips. If anyone has others to share - leave a comment and spread the word!