“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is a success.”
For every project manager, the important skill is the management of the project and team with the potential to motivate your team. The more skilled the project manager is in motivation, the more exhausted the long-lasting projects but it becomes easier for the entire team for handling the situation.
The question is how and to what extent the project manager should be motivated. The answer to this for someone might be natural and someone might struggle for finding out the right words and right ways to engage their employees so that they are always ready to put their 100% effort into all the projects. So here are the 5 tips to keep your team motivated on long-term projects so that they can handle these situations and remain motivated :
- Increase their commitment power
Explaining how finishing the project benefits both the company and your team is the simplest way to do so. Not keeping the benefits in the mind by the team members during the work might be surprising, but actually, this happens. During work, some of them don’t know about them because they are told not to remember and some of them don’t keep them in mind every time but know about them. In this case, reminding them about the benefits can increase their motivation to do the project and this increases their power to do commitments.
- Rewarding them for good Work
Giving rewards to team members is not only for good work but also for many other reasons. Many other reasons can be the first performance of the team was great achieving the desired results. The second can be that the efforts and hard work done by the team members are noticeable and remarkable. Sometimes it is necessary to compliment people for making them feel more motivated.
- Setting up Realistic Goals
The worst thing that can be done with a team is to get them overloaded with work that they can’t handle. Starting up a new project might lead to excitement and positivity. Also might lead to setting up goals that are not realistic. There is nothing awful in making this mistake as these can be made by anyone.
In this case, try to reset your goals into realistic goals and reevaluate your plans so that your team member doesn’t get exhausted and demotivated while doing the project.
- Measuring the Performance
Need to understand whether the project is doing as planned or if any additional time is required to do it. Also needs to understand whether the goals are achieved or not. Also tracking the progress in the first place is very important.
Working with the team members becomes easy if they know the progress that how much work they completed and how much is left to complete. That’s why measuring the performance since starting of the project is very important as telling the team about the intermediary deadlines and making them work accordingly.
- Motivate yourself
It is being correctly told that you can’t keep your team motivated until you are self-motivated. So always keep yourself motivated before motivating your team. So how can you get yourself motivated? It is recommended that prepare a list of tasks that your team has completed, looking at it at all times depressed and stuck. During work, all your personal problems should be kept aside, and always try to have bright exposure to both work and life.
Of course, getting all these things is not such an easy task. Keeping your head high all time might be typical and same time motivating your team on how you feel must be typical. This all needs to do as your team relies on you. It is cent percent sure that the day, once you get succeeded in motivating your team members, you will definitely feel great.
