HOW TO ENCOURAGE YOUR DEDICATED TEAM IN UKRAINE

In the modern world, almost no business works remotely with its employees. Especially the field of IT technologies has advanced remote work to a new level and now programmers from Ukraine can work for businessmen from the USA and feel quite comfortable. Even now, in such a difficult time for Ukraine, many dedicated software development teams in Ukraine work for people around the world and thereby help their country.

Many factors indicate that a dedicated development team in Ukraine is more convenient, less expensive, and more often more efficient for the business. Of course, one of the most important tasks is to find a good team, but recruiting companies can help with that. After recruiting, one of the most important steps is to motivate them and set the work. In this article, we will try to understand the features of motivation as a tool for management, as well as how motivation can improve work and its results at times.

To begin with, in order to understand the role of motivation in management, it is necessary to disassemble the concept of motivation. So, literally, motivation is an impulse to act, and speaking in scientific terms, it is a psychophysiological process that controls human behavior, setting its direction, organization, activity, and stability; a person's ability to actively satisfy his needs. It may seem to someone that the motivation is about these fiery speeches for the whole team and encouraging slogans. In part, yes, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. That is why this article was created, in which we will delve into the different types and ways to motivate your dedicated developers in Ukraine.

People receive support in various areas of their lives. Most often, a person receives support from friends and family, but support at work is also very important, especially if this support comes from a manager or business owner. Naturally, the manager should not become a mother or father to an employee, but he is obliged to provide support. After all, not every day will be successful for your employee, and this will really affect his productivity and work in general. 

To improve support in the team, you need to get together and arrange joint trips, and corporate parties, so that employees become friends with each other and believe that they are doing their job altogether. Considering that dedicated teams are most often located far from the main office, there may be problems with joint gatherings in a cafe. But at least once every two or three months, you need to hold similar team-building events so that everyone in the team feels like they belong to the team.

Support is one of the main methods and has a huge impact on building a friendly company and a well-coordinated dedicated team in Ukraine.

This tool is one of the main ones in management because it combines many aspects of motivation and control over the situation by the manager. After all, the main task of a manager is to be fair, that is, an employee must be encouraged for merit, and punished for shortcomings.

A great option to increase interest in work is a competitive assessment system. For example, if we are talking about the IT sphere, then the employee who completes more projects per month is awarded a bonus and the title of employee of the month. This assessment system has been in existence for many decades and always gives results. Plus, you understand which of your employees are really interested in career growth and work for results. There are many options for rewarding good employees; you should choose the one that is right for your area of business.

Unfortunately, punishment will also be present in the work of your team. And it is they that must be proportionate and fair to the shortcomings or failures of the employee. Some companies use a system of fines for their employees - for being late, for resting at a non-lunch time, for a lot of it. But this creates a very bad atmosphere among dedicated developers and is unlikely to help create a good and well-coordinated dedicated team for long-term cooperation. First, you need to find out why the employee did not have time or will not be able to do the task that he had to do. Why is the employee consistently late? Why does he lack the motivation to work all day and take breaks? If the problem cannot be solved, then perhaps both of you are no longer interested in cooperation, and then it will be possible to draw some conclusions.

To summarize this section, it is worth repeating that the main thing is the fairness and proportionality of reward and punishment.

According to many successful managers, these were one of the main ways to encourage and motivate a dedicated staff. Many of these methods were invented centuries ago, so most managers and business owners use them without hesitation. It is clear that there are many more ways to motivate a person and call him to action, but you need to soberly understand that motivation is a short-term action that simply helps a person gets off the ground. After motivation, discipline must necessarily follow, or all the work can be considered done in vain.

It is also impossible to endlessly encourage employees and expect results from them. As mentioned above, you need to be fair and know at what point the employee should be encouraged, and at what point, on the contrary, punished. But in any case, the team of their programmers should be encouraged so that people see the result of their work.

To sum it up, building the right relationships, discipline, and setting goals for the entire team is one of the main ingredients of good business. We hope this article was useful for you, helping your remote team find a new way to motivate and achieve high results while managing a team of dedicated Ukrainian developers.

If you have any questions or have an idea about hiring a team of professional developers in Ukraine, we would be glad to fuel your business idea with our services: contact.us@gointeractive.co