5 Reasons Good Employees Lose Their Motivation

What is Motivation? Motivation is an employees’ willingness to have an interest in the job and the outcomes of their work. The main issue leadership experiences is the inability to analyze the source of the employees lack of motivation.

Analyzing the employees’ lack of motivation and diagnosing the source and problem correctly is the first step in being able to decide on the correct action needed to mitigate the lack of motivation.

Not taking the right approach with an employee can have long-term detrimental effects on the company and its reputation.

Lets look at 5 Reasons a Good Employee will lose motivation and start dis-engaging from the job:

Reason 1 – The Company’s values in reality are not those that the employee anticipated during the interview and decision stage.

For an employee to be interested in your vision you need to align this to what the employee values. If the employee is not engaged or fully sold on the company and its value then input will be sub-optimal and thus output will follow course. It is all connected.

Reason 2 – Lack of confidence.

It is critical to build the employees’ confidence, this is the only way to get the best performance from your employee. Constant humiliation and lack of soft skills will result in that employee looking elsewhere. Every person has their own breaking point. Positive re-enforcement is the way to carry that employee from a place of doubt to the realization of the goal.

Reason 3 – Emotional and mental torment.

Negative work environments hamper an employees’ ability to focus and as a result produce quality work. It is the same for bullies in a playground. The consistent provocation and mental abuse consumes the worker and as a result impacting performance and output for the employer.

These negative and toxic work environment often break people down to a point where they lose all confidence and hope and as a result stick where they are and become emotionally and mentally sick to the point where they suffer from depression and anxiety and have to go on prescription medication to deal with their work environment.

Reason 4 – Inability to diagnose problems.

Coaching and training are your starting point. When the employee is not coached through the diagnoses phase then they lack the insight and skill to do it in future. The employer then thinks the employee is useless however the training and environment to learn and make mistakes was missing to develop the skill of that employee.

Reason 5 – Lack of respect.

Mutual respect is a major problem in society. People are critical of each other and the life choices of other people and all based on their own personal value system. People are free to live their lives and should be served and nurtured by leaders. Respect is the only way to get the same in return. A lack of respect will distance an employee and ultimately disengage that employee.

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