Motivating Employees BROCHURE

QUESTION

As the administrator of a Human Services agency, it is your job to promote professional and personal development in your employees. Motivation is important in Human Services because of the high possibility of burnout when working in the field.

In this assignment, you will design a motivational tool to help your staff stay focused on the organizational mission. This could be in the form of a PowerPoint, brochure, special event, or flyer that presents specific ways to motivate staff. Ideas of things you might want to detail include time management, professional behavior, ethical expectations, and personal stress management

In addition to submitting the tool, include how you intend for this tool to be used within the Human Services agency. In 2-3 paragraphs, explain how the tool will be made available to the staff (at a meeting, in a weekly email, displayed on bulletin boards, etc.) and how you hope it will help motivate the staff.

ANSWER

Motivating Employees

BROCHURE

Time Management

A good worker knows how to properly manage their time. It is only through proper time management that you will be able to complete all your assigned tasks on time. Proper time management ensures that you do not submit your work in late. Ensure that you properly manage your time through the following pointers:

• Learn to schedule assigned tasks.
• Prioritize tasks according to importance and urgency.
• Delegate tasks where appropriate.
• Avoid procrastinating work.
• Avoid multitasking. Complete one task then move on to the next.

Professionalism

It is important that you conduct yourself in a professional manner at all times, when in the workplace and in the field. Customers and clients need to build trust in your work, and this can only be achieved through professionalism. Always ensure that you work in a systematic and organized manner, and keep the workplace tidy.

Ethics and Values

Our organization upholds ethical guidelines and organizational values provided in the mission and vision statements. It is important that you consider ethical guidelines whenever you are working or when on an assignment outside the workplace. Ensure that you make ethical decisions and abide by the code of conduct.

Stress Management

Our main goal is to work together towards the fulfillment of our organizational goals. In order to do so, we need to ensure that we maintain a high level of efficiency and productivity at all times. Targets and huge workloads sometimes result in stress, which needs to be managed if we are to maintain our productivity and our personal health. For this reason, the company provides recreational facilities in the evening where you can rest and socialize after work hours. It is also important to take breaks between tasks to avoid fatigue.

Discussion

This brochure will be handed to every employee within the Human Services Agency upon getting hired. In addition, a copy of the brochure will be pinned at every bulletin board within the organization for the employees to see it while on the premises. Since the agency deals with various companies and recruiting agencies, a customized version of the brochure, for each client, will be provided on request, for the purposes of motivating the employees of our clients. The brochure will serve as a document that reminds people to remain focused on organizational goals and to give their best towards the fulfillment of these goals.

It is important that employees are made aware of the organizational goals, the mission, and the vision, in order to make them understand what they need to do to make them a reality. It is also important to remind them of the importance of ethical guidelines and organizational values, to ensure that they conduct their operations in an ethical manner. It is our hope that the employees will be motivated after reading this brochure to remain focused on the goals of the organization.