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For too many workers, their get-up and go has gotten up and left, and it's not coming back any time soon. Let's take a look at a three-part process of inspiring your staff to higher productivity.

First, we want our staff to get inspired. How do you inspire someone more than appreciate them for being alive and showing up. We have to care enough to know more about them. If we don't know, we have to ask. We only have to ask if we want results. If you don't want results, don't finish reading this article.

You can ask employees to list of what they like about being alive. Ask them to identify what they believe is their individual purpose in being alive .Ask them what they believe they are here to contribute in this lifetime to the world, to the community, to their families, and to themselves.

Here's a clue: If you find out that your employee is not happy about being alive, take immediate intervention and get them help or fired. This is a huge problem. When you identify the positives, go deeper to find out what motivates them and what they believe they have to offer to the world , your company, and themselves. You can't help people be happy or get happier if you have no idea what it would take to make them happy or why?

Energy, attitude, movement, and beliefs are so important. You want to find the positives in people. Where is the energy and inspiration possible for them. Identify these attitudes, energies, and beliefs.
Find out if people feel lethargic or energized. Those who are lethargic, down, or depressed, identify the source of their problems and try to find out what's holding them down or back. Get professional help if deemed necessary by what you find out.

Determine what makes an employee energized and enthusiastic. Find out what a person likes most about his or her job. Find out what the employee doesn't like. Ask about special hobbies, talents, and goals for personal and business success.

Extremely negative employees with bad attitudes and habits can destroy more of the other workers , themselves, and the company. Unhappy people who are negative in all areas of their life are not going to provide the happiest customer service to your customers. This can destroy the business or hurt the bottom line if not identified and stopped.

Once you find out more about what would be inspiring professionally and personally, identify how these match or conflict with the person's job and responsibility. For example, what if you have a secretary who tells you that her talent and happiness comes from drawing. Drawing is not part of her job typing for you and you're confused about how to help her be inspired.

Create a project that will benefit the company that will allow the secretary to use her artistic talent. This could include creating a bulletin board with something she has drawn, it could be to create some personalized cards whether for thank-you or other needed business purpose that would include some drawings. You could even allow her to make a drawing for a newsletter or flyer that is posted.

It's absolutely amazing what will happen when her talent gets used and noticed. Employees who use their gifts and talents to benefit the work environment are happier and tend to stay around longer. Just
imagine, the health benefits to your company or more satisfied workers who produce more.

The third part of this process is to "Stay Inspired." Once you find out what will inspire people, you help them to be inspired, and then you follow the process through of maintaining satisfaction, not just opening the door and shutting it after you start the process. Keeping people inspired means that you continually seek out avenues to recognize, involve, promote, and sustain positive possibilities for your employees. You continue to inspire your staff through involvement, projects, events, seminars, and recognition. With your help they will get inspired, be inspired, and stay inspired.