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A Motivating Environment Creates Positive Work Attitude and Commitment Among Your Employees

Stephen Covey asks the question, "Do you want to or do you have to?"

You are not only happy but enjoy doing your work. Happiness depends on external factors. Joy comes from the inside. A happy person is not necessarily a hard and a productive worker.

This can also ring true about your people.

Why Must a Motivating Environment Concern You?
A conducive work environment has positive effects on:

• Employee engagement and retention
• Teamwork and cooperation among employees
• Quality and standard of work performance
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• Employee and organizational productivity

But such an environment may not exist due to quality of corporate leadership, the bad attitude of co-workers and negative influence of peers.

Seven Things You Can Do To Create A Motivating Environment
These are some of the things you can do to create this type of work environment:

1. Always have a positive attitude. This helps you to see the good side of your people and about things in the organization.
2. Appreciate and genuinely acknowledge the contribution of your people.
3. Be there for your people, physically and emotionally. This includes emotional intelligence required to provide the right response at the right time.
4. Seek first to understand what your people need. Stephen Covey presents this as one of the habits of successful people.
5. Do not make promises you cannot keep. It is easier to promise that you will speak up on behalf of your people than promising that they will get what you promised.
6. Build trust. This is especially required if you are in a position of leadership.
7. Ensure that you explain clearly when conveying any message to your people.

Using Fredrick Herzberg's theory, a conducive environment answers to the hygiene needs of employees. Its presence may not motivate people but lack of it can demotivate.

Creating a motivating environment is a continuous activity. It is not easy. It requires doing these things on a daily basis to bring about this environment.

Being a good and effective communicator is a required quality.

To ensue that a motivating environment can exist, be aware of your surrounding and listen with your heart and mind to what your people are saying. In this way, you can respond to the human needs of employees. If changes are required, you will know this and will take the necessary action.

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