How to Motivate Your Employees

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Are you looking to make your business successful?  If so, you need to start with yourself and your employees.  You and your employees really do control everything, how things run, how customers are treated and much more.  What happens a lot is that people get burnt out on their job, do the same things everyday and lose that motivation to really help the business.  They do the minimum amount of work and that starts to show eventually.

If you’re looking to motivate your employees and improve your business at the same time, continue reading below to find out how you can do so!

Rewards:  Set up goals at the beginning of the week.  Say if your business reaches a certain amount in sales, gets a certain rating on customer satisfaction, etc that they will get a reward for their good efforts.  When there is something at the end of the line that can benefit them they will work harder.

Compliment:  Be a good boss and really compliment them when they work hard.  Who wants to work their butt off for someone that won’t care or even notice?  No one!  So let them know that you appreciate their hard work when they do good.

Help out:  You should do your fair share of the business.  To seem serious about improving your business you need to participate.  Your employees don’t want to hear you complain about how they’re not working hard enough if you don’t help them when they need it and when the business is busy.  Do your fair share of the work!

Contests:  To really get things going good set up contests.  Say who ever sells the most of your products, gets the best reviews from customers or gets the most sales gets a bonus at the end of the week.  They will all want to work hard together and that will motivate them if there is extra money involved.

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Motivating your employees isn’t hard to do.  They want extras, want your appreciation and what you to see that they do work hard.  Let them know when they do a good job and be sure to reward them like you reward yourself!

7 Top Workplace Safety Tips

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Whether you own a business today, or you’re planning on owning one, safety should be one of the biggest concerns when you’re running any type of shop.  Whether it be a manufacture based shop, or a retail shop, these safety tips can play a factor in any atmosphere.

Just be clean: When hiring employees, make sure that you emphasize the word, “clean.”  Having a clean shop can cut back on so many things such as bacteria, hazards, and more.   Get used to sweeping, sanitizing things, and more.

Inform your employees: Whether you have to put up posters, or have that occasional meeting, it’s important that your employees know about the safety rules around the shop.  If you own a restaurant, let them know what they can and can’t do in the kitchen, etc.

Learn how to prevent: Most people don’t want to prevent something until it has already happened.  Instead of waiting for that incident to occur, learn how you can prevent that incident.

Know what each job does: It’s important to know what each job is to ensure that you know that they are being the safest possible at work.  Even if every person sits at a computer desk for 8 hours a day, you can always ensure breaks every 2 hours, etc, to ensure that they are giving their eyes a break, etc.

Make sure things are running: If you’re running any kind of shop with machinery, it’s important that you have it running at 100%.  Get them inspected, and always make sure that if something is starting to go bad that you get it fixed.

Make sure employees aren’t exposed: Always make sure that your employees are equipped when dealing with anything hazardous.  From working with food, to chemicals, you will want to ensure that your employees are wearing the right uniforms.

Prepare your office: Is your building protected from a fire?  You must have fire extinguishers to ensure that you can put out a fire.  Without one of these, you can spell a big disaster.

As long as you’re aware of your problems and you can prevent them before they even happen, you’re going to find that you can make your workplace safer than ever.  Be sure to have your office / workplace up to date with tehe OSHA standards.

6 Powerpoint Presentation Tips

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No matter what business you’re going to be in, there may be a time when you either have to attend a presentation, or maybe you have to give a presentation.  If you’re the lucky one that’s going to give a presentation through Powerpoint, I wanted to show you some tips that you can use when wanting to give a killer presentation.

#1 Keep it Short

The first thing that you want to do is keep it short.  From what I’ve read, the experts will tell you that you should keep it less than 10 slides, as well as no longer than 20 minutes.  You don’t want to put the audience to sleep.  The point here is to condense what you want to get across in 20 minutes or less.

#2 Think Outside the Box

Don’t be cliche when you’re thinking of the corporation atmosphere.  You don’t have to go in there with your boring speech to appeal others.  Instead, you’re going to want to entertain and make it memorable.  Think back to any presentation that you have attended.  Do any of them stick out to you?  If they do, what made them memorable?

#3 Be Calm – Collect Yourself

It’s okay to be nervous, especially if you’re going to be speaking in front of a lot of people that you don’t know.  Instead of being nervous and talking very fast, it’s important that you watch your speed, as well as your tone.  Make sure that you slow things down.

#4 Don’t Read Word for Word

Nothing spells boring more than having someone up there reading the presentation verbatim.  You want to summarize your topics and make your spreadsheet appealing.  You don’t want to sit up there, and read a paragraph and again, put your audience to sleep.

#5 Prepare for Questions

There are always going to be questions.  While you can’t prepare for all of them, it’s important that you think of a response for each one.  If you can’t come up with an answer, are they going to trust you with your presentation?  Expect the worst and don’t freak out when you can’t answer a question.  If you can’t answer something, you can simply say something along the lines of, “I will get back on you with that”, or “Let me do more research, because I can’t provide you with that answer today.”

#6 Practice Makes Perfect

Oh, I know it’s cliche, but it’s so true.  Practice in front of the mirror, or even your family.  If you can entertain people that don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re going to be on the right path.

Just have fun, create something entertaining, and get your point across.  You’ll want to create some fun sideshows that are making the people crave the next one.  If you get people talking about your presentation a few days later, you know you created something that’s great.