Motivation, in general, is crucial to achieving any goal-oriented business. It’s a compelling force that keeps you chugging towards your life goals, helping you turn your dreams into reality. And this holds for software companies too. How do you ask? To thrive in this competitive digital world, companies have to deliver the finest quality products or services in a shorter time. Faster delivery of products and services without compromising on quality can only be achieved if companies have a bunch of employees (read developers) who are highly talented, engaged, passionate, and most importantly, motivated all the time. Motivated employees will have increased levels of commitment towards work, high efficiency in their work performance, and not to forget, improvement in productivity. All of these will ultimately impact the company’s bottom line. And hence, employee motivation is one of the crucial things that companies should consider in the workplace.
Today, developers are expected to stay updated on technology trends and keep on learning new things, which can be exciting but tiring too. To maintain their energy levels, companies need to keep them motivated, focused, and happy at work.
You have landed to this article, hence we assume that you are here for some great and essential tips on how to keep your employees (developers, specifically) engaged and motivated. Stay worry-free, we’ve got you covered. We have conducted thorough research and have outlined a few actionable tips on how to improve developers’ motivation in the workplace.
Nobody will like to work for a manager who is moody and non-empathetic. Employees working for such managers will be unable to give their best in whatever work they do. Their performance, efficiency, and productivity at work will deteriorate, which will ultimately impact team efficiency in a negative way.
To ensure this doesn’t happen, managers should be polite, generous, helpful, empathetic, understanding, and motivating. As every employee is different, managers should know each of their strengths, weaknesses, career goals, expectations, work problems, and personal interests. Along with professional staff, managers should also be empathetic towards the employees’ personal lives. And for this, managers should regularly have one on one conversation with each individual, try to connect and build trust with them, understand what’s bothering them, and give them a dose of motivation whenever required.
Who doesn’t love to be praised publicly? The effort and time that developers invest to bring ideas into reality can sometimes go unnoticed, which can hurt their feelings.
To ensure this doesn’t happen, companies should have a work culture where employees, seniors, managers regularly express gratitude to their deserving co-workers. Also, developers should be given bonuses or gift cards for their accomplishments. All of these will help companies motivate their developers to continue producing creative and clean code.
Measuring how well a team is performing is vital for achieving company success. And hence, the work performance of each employee should be assessed on a regular basis.
Managers should be able to answer questions like:
For each employee. Plus, managers should regularly set goals so that they improve their technical skills over time. However, all of these cannot be achieved by manual methods. To track and measure everything accurately, managers should choose the right performance tracking tools available in the market. With the analysis report, companies can provide constructive feedback to developers, thus motivating them to perform even better in their next appraisal cycle.
There are hundreds of software and tools readily available that can make a developer’s job a little easy. For example, a static code analysis tool can help developers know where they went wrong before they run the program, saving a lot of their precious time. Moreover, this tool will help them write clean codes and also motivate them to improve their coding practices.
Companies should provide their developers with tools to make their job easier while motivating them to move up their career ladder. Apart from that, they should give them enough leisure time to learn new things online, conduct training sessions on modern technologies, provide education assistance, and encourage them to improve their technical skills. Having this culture will boost their motivation to work harder at their workplace.
Known fact – Effective communication is vital for achieving project success. However, what kind of communication you ask? Well, here’s the secret to having good communication at the workplace.
Companies should encourage a culture of open communication where every developer is given equal opportunity to participate in discussing business goals, ways to accomplish them, and their role in the project. Also, developers, if they wish to, should be allowed to mention ways to improve the existing business model. This way, developers will know their worth in the team, which can be an effective motivator.
On the other hand, managers should take the open communication culture as the best opportunity to motivate employees. They can acknowledge the developer’s exemplary work and notable achievements by rewarding them. This will create a sense of friendly competition among other teammates to do their best for getting pointed out by their managers in the next open forum.
At Mindbowser, my CTO and I teamed up to build an agency that can bring the best of tech and knowledge to founders.
In case you would like to discuss your options further, feel free to get in touch at ayush@mindbowser.com or book a 30 minutes free consultation call!
Get Free Consultation!
Now you know the best motivators from this article. However, you also need to know that every company is unique. So, wisely choose only those ideas that may work well for your company. Apart from that, the winning recipe to keep developers motivated is to have a people-centric workplace culture. Listen to developers, encourage creativity, welcome all ideas, and most importantly, respect them. That’s all anybody would want, isn’t it? Good Luck!
The Mindbowser team's professionalism consistently impressed me. Their commitment to quality shone through in every aspect of the project. They truly went the extra mile, ensuring they understood our needs perfectly and were always willing to invest the time to...
CTO, New Day Therapeutics
I collaborated with Mindbowser for several years on a complex SaaS platform project. They took over a partially completed project and successfully transformed it into a fully functional and robust platform. Throughout the entire process, the quality of their work...
President, E.B. Carlson
Mindbowser and team are professional, talented and very responsive. They got us through a challenging situation with our IOT product successfully. They will be our go to dev team going forward.
Founder, Cascada
Amazing team to work with. Very responsive and very skilled in both front and backend engineering. Looking forward to our next project together.
Co-Founder, Emerge
The team is great to work with. Very professional, on task, and efficient.
Founder, PeriopMD
I can not express enough how pleased we are with the whole team. From the first call and meeting, they took our vision and ran with it. Communication was easy and everyone was flexible to our schedule. I’m excited to...
Founder, Seeke
Mindbowser has truly been foundational in my journey from concept to design and onto that final launch phase.
CEO, KickSnap
We had very close go live timeline and Mindbowser team got us live a month before.
CEO, BuyNow WorldWide
If you want a team of great developers, I recommend them for the next project.
Founder, Teach Reach
Mindbowser built both iOS and Android apps for Mindworks, that have stood the test of time. 5 years later they still function quite beautifully. Their team always met their objectives and I'm very happy with the end result. Thank you!
Founder, Mindworks
Mindbowser has delivered a much better quality product than our previous tech vendors. Our product is stable and passed Well Architected Framework Review from AWS.
CEO, PurpleAnt
I am happy to share that we got USD 10k in cloud credits courtesy of our friends at Mindbowser. Thank you Pravin and Ayush, this means a lot to us.
CTO, Shortlist
Mindbowser is one of the reasons that our app is successful. These guys have been a great team.
Founder & CEO, MangoMirror
Kudos for all your hard work and diligence on the Telehealth platform project. You made it possible.
CEO, ThriveHealth
Mindbowser helped us build an awesome iOS app to bring balance to people’s lives.
CEO, SMILINGMIND
They were a very responsive team! Extremely easy to communicate and work with!
Founder & CEO, TotTech
We’ve had very little-to-no hiccups at all—it’s been a really pleasurable experience.
Co-Founder, TEAM8s
Mindbowser was very helpful with explaining the development process and started quickly on the project.
Executive Director of Product Development, Innovation Lab
The greatest benefit we got from Mindbowser is the expertise. Their team has developed apps in all different industries with all types of social proofs.
Co-Founder, Vesica
Mindbowser is professional, efficient and thorough.
Consultant, XPRIZE
Very committed, they create beautiful apps and are very benevolent. They have brilliant Ideas.
Founder, S.T.A.R.S of Wellness
Mindbowser was great; they listened to us a lot and helped us hone in on the actual idea of the app. They had put together fantastic wireframes for us.
Co-Founder, Flat Earth
Ayush was responsive and paired me with the best team member possible, to complete my complex vision and project. Could not be happier.
Founder, Child Life On Call
The team from Mindbowser stayed on task, asked the right questions, and completed the required tasks in a timely fashion! Strong work team!
CEO, SDOH2Health LLC
Mindbowser was easy to work with and hit the ground running, immediately feeling like part of our team.
CEO, Stealth Startup
Mindbowser was an excellent partner in developing my fitness app. They were patient, attentive, & understood my business needs. The end product exceeded my expectations. Thrilled to share it globally.
Owner, Phalanx
Mindbowser's expertise in tech, process & mobile development made them our choice for our app. The team was dedicated to the process & delivered high-quality features on time. They also gave valuable industry advice. Highly recommend them for app development...
Co-Founder, Fox&Fork
