How to motivate and inspire your employees?.

It is most profitable to inspire and to motivate your sales department for example as a team leader. This means they will be more productive and more pleasant to work with. Give recognizion and appreciation. It is a method that works for employees to deliver more than average. You can give incentives to show that the workers are performing well. There are companies that share a percentage of the profits per branch with the employees. This means that the team spirit is a major issue that they are constantly aware of. This means once they communicate and address each other in the right way to keep a good workfloor ambiance. They will generate lots of money for their boss.

Make the workfloor a good place to be.

The work space is really a cause to be productive. If you work at a supermarket you will find out soon or later what type of light you under. If the workspace is well lit and when it feels good to have the right type of light and also natural light through the windows. The customers also be more likely to step into your store. Having access to up-to-date equipment for your sales team for example will make their job easy. If the offices are well warmed in the winter and in the summer well air-conditioned. This will make your employees focus more on their delegated tasks. Also tune-proof walls to avoid distraction from noise of cars and trucks from outside.  

Be supportive, honest and respectful manager.

Offer support and communicate in a respectful manner with your employees. This means that you communicate in a informal manner too. Do not be cold and be flat. Give the employees the space to offer their opinion. Do not be a Hitler but a Ghandi. Mind the tone of your voice when you talk to employees. Let them think with you for solutions and give your honest opinion about their influences. Stimulate them to perform beyond average. Ask if they bought a new pop album or if you noticed that an employee wears new sneakers ask them where they bought it. If an employee like to read industry specific books ask if you as the manager where you can buy those books.

Give workers incentives.

To keep the workers motivated and make them feel well appreciated. You can add quarterly bonus to their pay check. Also a compensation plan for extra qualifications that relates to their job. You can offer profit sharing program for the whole staff. Also a company common health care plan to reduce the individual cost of health care costs. You can print t-shirts and caps of your company and hand it to the employees to wear in their spare time. Give them a new years get-together bites and drinks to start the new year with a bang. Offer persectives to grow with the time. Offer a company car or motorcycle to go to appointments with customers. Pay for their driven mileage to work.

Give employees growing perspectives.

Let them master more in due time within the company. Give them space to get more qualifications to get a raise and expand their tasks. Do not let the employees who perform well leave the company by not offering space to grow. This means you can train them to do part-time tasks of another department and move from cash register to head office to learn the whole different tasks like book keeping. If your company is that large. I am talking about 600 employees or more. You can arrange a lot for motivated employees. If your business is expanding by scaling and opening another branch. Then you can move a worker from cash register to follow an intership to become an assistant manager in the new branch.