Assistant Managers: How to motivate your team
It is becoming more and more common for Assistants to manage staff and lead teams on projects. Many Executive Assistants manage teams of other Assistants and Administrators, and we all know it can be tough keeping Assistant’s careers on track and keeping them motivated. Assistant Managers: How to motivate your team.
Leadership tips for Assistant Managers
As Assistant managers, it is important to recognise the skills and capabilities of your team members. With the right motivation, you can bring out the best in them and help them achieve their goals. Whether it’s motivating employees through recognition or creative rewards, a leader can be an essential part of helping teams reach peak performance.
In this article, we’ll discuss why supporting employees is key for Assistant managers, different ways to support team members by recognising excellence, creating incentives that work with individual personalities, tactical tips for inspiring productivity and more! Get ready to cultivate a successful team as an Assistant manager. Here are our tips on keeping your team motivated and enthusiastic about the work.
Give each member of the team autonomy over their work
It can be really easy, especially if you have been in the business for a long time, to think you know how to do everything! If you motivate your team, you can offer guidance, but you must let them have autonomy over their work. It is so important!
Ask for input and feedback ensures your team feels like you listen to them (and listen to them!) Communication needs to be a two-way street; you must listen to their ideas, objections, and concerns. Take the time to solicit feedback, and you will find that you have many new ideas for doing things.
Get to know your team
If you know your team member’s strengths and weaknesses, you will delegate work to the appropriate person. Get to know them in other ways, too – what they like to do, what they find exciting and challenging, who they are as people outside of the office and what their other hobbies are. The best leaders care about their staff and treat them accordingly.
Providing productive and challenging work
We all know in the Assistant role that, you can’t have challenging and productive projects all day, and every day, the role also has a lot of necessary administrative tasks that we all have to do. But, with that being said, there are many tasks and projects that Assistants can get involved in. As a manager, you should encourage your team to be proactive and get stuck in productive and challenging work. Encourage them to shine!
Providing rewards
We all know how tough it is for Assistants to gain recognition and compensation at work. Pay rises and promotions are hard-fought. As a manager, you have to be their advocate and push for them to get the rewards they deserve. You can also give your team many little rewards to make them happy. An extra-long lunch break, the chance to leave early or a thank-you cupcake for a job will all be appreciated. Making your team feel appreciated is half the battle for management, so make sure you celebrate every success!
Setting effective goals
Last but not least. Every team member should have a productive career development plan in place. Make sure they have goals that will stretch them and help them grow in their role. Establish a structure to meet regularly and mentor them through any challenges. If you are an executive Assistant managing a team of Assistants, you can lead by example. You know how tough the job is, and a strategic career development plan will help them achieve much more in the role. Assistant Managers: How to motivate your team.
