I'm looking for some ideas on how to motivate staff.
I heard some practices have a bonus based on fee income, but would like to hear your ideas!
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Have you tried things like:
- Cheap team building events (e.g. cinema trips, theme park trips, bowling)?
- Weekly cake making competition
If you are looking for montery rewards then try to tie them into your own objectives for the practice. Do you want more feedback from clients? Give the staff £50 of vouchers for every five piece of feedback that is submitted to a form you setup.
When I was last a manager the firm I worked for would pay 1/3 of the first years fee for any work I brought in through my own initiative as opposed to via their marketing, which was a good money spinner for me and I signed up some good clients for the firm.
We also had bonus for hitting billing targets.
For general staff you could look at these discount cards where you £5 per month for staff and they get a card that gets them 20% discount at cinema, pizzahut and that type of thing which are good for satff as will save them a few quid over the year. I forget the name of the company that does it.
I think team building things tend to be pretty naff and cost a lot and don't really bring much in the way of benefits.
to encourage team work, I think the best thing is to get your staff behind a charity and get them to do a team entry into the great north run, Children in Need, Macmillan coffee morning that type of thing.
So9metimes the simpliest things bring great results. Do you and all other partners walk through the office on arival and say good morning to everyone and include their name. Do they stop and ask for instance" is your son better. If you employ ladies do you bend over backwards to accomodate them when little Jonny is sick or when their daughter is in a school play. What I mean is do you give them time off without fuss and tell them to make up the hours another day? Just some of the things that I find work and cost nothing.
If you employ ladies do you bend over backwards to accomodate them when little Jonny is sick or when their daughter is in a school play.
You do realise that that is an incredibly sexist comment. I am sure there are male employees who take time to nurse their sick little Jonny and watch their daughter in the school play.
Oh yes, nothing like a bit of off-the-cuff ingrained mysogyny. It's not just the ladies whose children get sick.
The little things go a long way.
I used to work for a transport company where we had to purchase our own tea and coffee. There was a profit related bonus that wasn’t worth having, and everyone would have just preferred having the tea and coffee provided.
Little changes can make the office a place of dread to somewhere where the employees enjoy working.
Tea and coffee, biscuits, the odd Friday breakfast sandwiches go much further in my opinion that £50 a Christmas.
The occasional work night out is always good for morale. Especially when you go in on the Monday morning to hear that someone was in a worse state than you.
You don’t need to spend a fortune to incentivise staff.
A huge pile of swiss franks or US dollars...no point in giving sterling bonuses its worth so little....
What do tou want them to do? Reward that...
If you want a fresh Starbucks placed on your desk at 9.14am each morning by the under secretary (you should not ask the lead secretary) Then perhaps if she achieves her goal then every alternate Friday she can get one for herself on the company. Although you may have to pop this on her plld.
So what do you want...
Surprised no-one's suggested HMRC's Trivial Benefits scheme. Their website gives about 20 examples of how to give employees £50 an unlimited number of times (directors excluded).
Thank you, HMRC....
Be nice, be open be fair; treat them as individuals, take account of what's important to them and keep it simple. Pay them by the hour let them work flexibly and keep a dialogue going so you will know whether they are happy or not. No bonuses and nothing complicated.