A happy team is often a productive and loyal one, so any leader's top priority should be motivating and empowering their staff. This is especially important in the tech industry, where good talent is hard to find and even harder to keep.
As tech leaders, the members of Forbes Technology Council know how essential it is to build and maintain employee motivation. Below, eight of them offered their best tips for keeping your tech team happy and engaged. Here is what they advise:
1. Be An Empathic Leader
Keeping teams motivated and happy means being an empathetic and dynamic leader. Each individual on your team is unique and each has unique needs you must focus on to be successful. - Chris Castaldo, Dataminr
2. Get The Whole Team Involved In Decisions
I like to make sure each team member feels like they are a part of the company. We grow together. When the company is successful, I make sure our team is a part of that success. I like to involve my team in important decisions when creating company strategy and future plans. - Sandy Huang, Sunnet Solutions
3. Provide Vision And Connections
Have a clear vision and purpose. Help the team connect to the vision and understand how they are contributing to that purpose. Next, give your team opportunities to listen to and interact with customers directly so they can “own” problems and solve them. Finally, make space: Clear the path and corporate roadblocks so that the team can operate. - Steve Mast, Delvinia
4. Tailor Challenges To Their Skill Levels
The skills of individuals on the team need to align with the goals of the company. Once this is met, you need to ensure that each person's capabilities can be fully applied in overcoming laid out challenges. Each challenge should be manageable enough, so it acts as a hook for learning new things, and approachable enough to create a sense of belief in one's ability to overcome it. The difficulty of the given tasks should increase with increasing skills. Each individual should be able to judge their progress immediately and have instant feedback on their performance. - Magdalena Paluch, LabTwin
5. Remove Friction
Technology teams are primarily motivated by a sense of purpose and as close to a frictionless environment as can be achieved. Friction comes from many sources. It can be personal conflict, overly burdensome processes or simply not having access to the right tools to do their job. Sharing a common goal and having the means to achieve it are rare enough that most teams will be delighted. - Rob Christner, Curi
6. Provide Clear, Consistent Direction
Tech teams are no different than the rest of the organization. They need to know the bigger picture of why we are doing what we do, and what the long-term vision is. Tech teams thrive on specifics—on concretes over superlatives—so your vision needs visuals, modules and numbers. - Aaron Patzer, Vital Software Inc.
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7. Enable Teams To Work Efficiently
It’s difficult to create a culture that is right for everyone, especially since tech teams are usually working a bit differently to other teams. In my opinion, giving people the space to decide how to structure their work and from where to work from really goes a long way. Enabling teams to work efficiently, even though some might work from a beach in Bali and others from London, really changes people’s perception of what work can be. Especially in tech-enabled jobs, it’s easy to work across borders and time zones. - Toni Horn, FJORD & MBJ LONDON
8. Prioritize Engagement And Transparency
Engagement and full transparency have been the key components of keeping our tech teams motivated. Team members need to have a shared common vision towards our company objectives and engaged at all levels of decision making in order to have that sense of ownership. A diverse set of projects is also a critical element of keeping your tech team performing at high levels, as they need to not only utilize their skills but also continuously improve. - Jahn Karsybaev, Prosource IT
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