Key Points to Increase Happiness at Work

Both young and old agree that recognition is always a way of highlighting a job well done. Gestures such as a pat on the back or a verbal acknowledgement are enough to make us feel valuable and, consequently, help us in our personal and professional motivation towards the achievement of goals.

Happiness and Motivation at Work

Each and every one of us needs a stimulus to help us move forward. Nowadays, in an environment marked by homeworking which, in many cases, is becoming a common modality among companies, it is essential that motivation, feedback and communication between managers and employees is as personal as posible.

We all need to be recognised for our actions. We need to know that we are doing the right things when we are doing the right things or that we are not going the right direction so that we have the opportunity to get back on track. This generates motivation and happiness in our day-to-day lives, because we know exactly what needs to be done and what is expected of us.

A Clear Plan to Foster Motivation and Happiness

Working on motivation and happiness at work requires planning a number of elements:

Career planning:

Keeping the employee informed of what is expected of him or her. Without a well-defined horizon, the employee may feel disorientated.

Deadline:

It is very important to know the expected deadlines for the accomplishment of projects and tasks. A task can drag on for a long time and cause demotivation if there is no time horizon to mark it.

Communication:

Maintaining a communication plan between the team, the manager or any other person involved is something so basic that we can often forget it. Knowing what the rest is doing to maintain harmonised environment, being able to debate and contextualise the work, relativise in times of conflict or rectify and remedy in times of crisis, constitute a basis of communication towards motivation.

Evaluation:

We should all have qualitative and quantitative objectives set as far as possible in order to be able to monitor our actions correctly. Only in this way can we have a measurable and realistic short- and long-term view of our progress.

Recognition, both from our superiors and from our colleagues, generates a feeling of happiness and satisfaction in people that has a direct impact on individual and collective productivity.

In short, it is all about working together to achieve business objectives, but always putting the happiness of the people who make up the organisation first.

Tools in atSistemas to Foster Motivation and Happiness

At atSistemas, we continue to grow. We are currently more than 1,800 national and international professionals. We know that atSistemas is nothing without them, and that the result of our business success lies directly in their motivation and involvement.

Therefore, from the People department, we work so that each and every one of these 1,800 people feel supported and comfortable. Only in this way will they be able to carry out the work they have been assigned and be happy.

From atSistemas, we believe that it is essential for any company to support a culture of recognition so that professionals feel much more motivated to generate innovation and commitment, but, above all, to be happier in their daily work.