{"id":76,"date":"2021-04-23T00:06:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T00:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getinvited.to\/how-to-stay-motivated-to-work-hard\/"},"modified":"2023-12-06T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:23:22","slug":"how-to-stay-motivated-to-work-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getinvited.to\/how-to-stay-motivated-to-work-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stay Motivated to Work Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"

What gets you up in the morning and into the office? Is it the pay cheque or is there something else that drives you? I shared some experiences from my own career and some tips on how to stay motivated to work hard.<\/p>\n

For decades, it was assumed that the best way to motivate people was to offer monetary rewards. In the industrial age, job roles were much more mechanical and repetitive, and it made sense that a cash incentive would encourage people to go the extra mile. However, as we have shifted towards a knowledge-based economy, the idea that money is the reason we work hard has become obsolete.<\/p>\n

According to behavioral author Daniel Pink<\/a>, the greatest driver of motivation is powered by our emotions and not cash incentives. In fact, research shows that monetary rewards actually weaken performance.\u00a0Therefore, whilst money might be the reason we go to work, it isn\u2019t what makes us go that extra mile.<\/p>\n

How do our emotions affect motivation?<\/h2>\n

From school age we\u2019re taught that suppressing our emotions will help us appear more mature and professional<\/em>. This is not only naive for the modern workforce, but it is also nearly impossible to achieve. As human beings, typically our actions are intended to cause us emotion, usually happiness. Therefore if we are going to do a task, we generally want to receive a positive experience from it, thus influencing our cognitive processing. Taking this into the work environment, if we are constantly provided with\u00a0negative feedback, or if our hard work is consistently ignored, we may not see the positive benefit of performing, thus decreasing our motivation levels.<\/p>\n

In 2014, employee engagement firm TINYpulse carried out a survey across 500 organisations, with a total of 200,000 responses, to identify, The 7 Key Trends Impacting Today\u2019s Workplace\u2019.\u00a0 Within that survey they covered the topic of employee motivation, specifically asking \u201cWhat motivates you to excel and go the extra mile at your organisation?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

The results found that a sense of achievement and having that achievement recognised were strong motivators for employee satisfaction (68%), whilst money and benefits (7%) where much lower motivators.\u00a0The report summarises that peers and camaraderie had the number one influence on employee motivation, and was the source of 20% of all employees going the extra mile.<\/p>\n

Our working environments can greatly affect our levels of motivation, both positively and negatively. According to Forbes the top common causes of workplace demotivation are:<\/p>\n