How to motivate staff

During my internship, I came to know staff motivation is how important for all the companies. Due to economic meltdown and financial difficulties, Haveeru Media Group, the company that i was doing my internship at, and several other companies cut off staff benefits and incentives and reduce staffs.

Since 2008, due to the global financial crisis and Maldives political unrests, the country's economy has been sliding down day by day and it affected all the business and livelihood.

But, according to HGM General Manager, few companies including HMG reinstated staffs incentives despite financial difficulties. Because they wanted to keep staff motivation.

Motivating the staffs is one of the toughest task in any company. Staffs always complain about salaries, working environment and some other issues. But these days, companies' top management should know how to motivate their staffs without giving cash incentives.

There have several tactics to boost staffs' energy without involving money. Here is some of tactics,
- Keep close relationship with staffs
- Praise staffs from top management (Chairman, CEO, Managing Director or Head of Department)
- Give opportunity to lead
- Meet the staffs and tell the situations of the company
- Meet one on one
- Participate in some senior-level meeting
- Make the staffs feel that they are important
- Tell the truth

During my internship I had discussed with General Manager and Editor of Haveeru about how to motivate staff. They said to me they will do some of the tactics that I had discussed with them. Please try these tactics.

Thanks.