From Disengaged to Superstar: How to Ignite Employee Passion

The average American worker is demotivated and disinterested. It’s not hard to see why when you consider how low wages are and how high inflation is. If you run a business of your own, you must do everything you can to transform disengaged employees into superstars. It can be challenging doing this, but it’s essential.

This post will explore this topic in more detail and tell you how you can ignite employee passion so that you can improve their performance and increase your company’s profits. Keep reading to find out how you can transform each employee from zeroes to heroes.

Surveying Employees

Distributing surveys among your workforce isn’t going to increase their passion or motivate them. However, surveys can help you to get a good idea of how effective your efforts at motivating them are. You can use an engagement survey, in particular, to figure out how employees are finding work for you. If you do plan on sending surveys out, it is generally a good idea to make sure that you allow employees to submit their answers anonymously.

By allowing them to submit anonymous answers, you’ll get more truthful responses. A lot of employers make the mistake of insisting that employees give their names and contact information when they are filling out surveys. If an employee has any grievances with your company, they are less likely to bring them up if their name is going to be submitted along with their answers.

Increasing Wages

Increasing your employees’ wages is probably the most effective way for you to ignite employee passion. Right now, wages are lower than ever. By increasing wages in your company, you will motivate employees. You need to think long and hard about wage increases before you begin introducing them into your company.

If you try to increase wages by too much, you could end up costing yourself a lot of money. You may want to consider hiring a financial advisor. A financial advisor will be able to give you advice and guidance relative to wage increases.

Make sure that in addition to hiring a financial advisor, you look at what other companies are paying their employees in your sector. Increasing employee wages by even 5% can have a significant impact on how motivated they are. You may also want to consider giving bonuses to your employees if they work very hard.

Recognizing Staff

A very effective way of motivating your employees is to recognize them when they complete tasks to a satisfactory standard. A lot of companies do this by introducing employee-of-the-month schemes. An employee of the month scheme will give you the opportunity to recognize employees who are especially hard-working.

You may also want to introduce a bonus scheme, whereby recipients of an employee of the month are given attractive monetary bonuses. You could even give them gifts, such as airline tickets or paid vacation. Recognizing staff and then giving them bonuses will make them much more motivated.

Do you want to ignite passion in your employees? If the answer is yes, follow the guidance given here in this post.  Following it will help you to improve relations with employees and make them feel much better about their jobs.