How can team leaders motivate and improve their staff performance? Provide staff assistance, opportunities to better themselves and the environment that increases enthusiasm. The processes of involvement, observation, interaction, and feedback build the foundation that necessary for staff motivation. Here are several tips that can help team leaders to motivate their staff:

• Share departmental or company goals with your staff, so they can feel their importance for the whole company and feel themselves enthusiastic.
• Ask for a feedback from your staff as it can provide them with an opportunity to actively participate in company planning and changes.
• Delegate tasks to your staff. It will help you to free up your time and allow employees to experience other responsibilities within the organization. It also prepares the organization to staff shortages, and let your staff take a break from the routine of their regular tasks.
• Communicate with your staff. It is important for the employees to feel they can communicate with their direction openly, so they can discuss their suggestions, concerns, successes and misses without fear of punishment.
• Reward your employees for each completed project or complex goal to keep them motivated for accomplishment their future work.

Try to use these tips and you will see how quickly your team becomes motivated. As we live in the age of technical progress and use computers, the best helper in communicating with a staff is software. For example: if you are in the same office with your staff and need to give some task to one of your staff members, you don't need to run over the office with documents looking for this person. If you have software, you can assign this task to this person from your computer and he'll receive a notification about a new task. VIP Task Manager Pro is just such kind of software. It allows authorized users to simultaneously access the common database as through Local Network (LAN) so as via low speed networks (for ex.: VPN) to see, add, edit and delete their team or personal tasks, if they are granted appropriate permissions. You can assign tasks to other people and also re-assign tasks and receive notifications about the status of this task. VIP Task Manager Pro also has many others features and advantages and to see all of them you just need to try it.

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