Kate Ross: Are you fired up about what you do?

Kate Ross. Photo / supplied

The productivity of any business is often defined by the attitude and mental well-being of those leading it.

In a recent survey conducted in New Zealand and Australia, it was found that almost 60 per cent of workers either hate their job or have mixed feelings about it and that this attitude to work severely hampered the success of their business.

Just under half of the leaders and senior managers surveyed, felt the same way towards their job as the workers they were leading.

When you are working in a flat economy and the attitude of your workers is reflecting this, then it's time to take a really hard look at your own state of mind and attitude towards what you do as a leader and how this is affecting the morale of your staff who work for you.

There has never been a more pressing time to look at your own motivations and attitude towards your role as a business owner and how you inspire and empower people who are disengaged, uninterested and who have an unproductive attitude to what they do for you.

Although businesses are demanding more performance from their people, it is more difficult to achieve this when staff morale is low and turnover is high. The capability of a business to increase productivity is then lost to another employer.

The approach taken by many businesses now is to look at the development of their people and organisation in a new way, by considering programmes which combine the science with practical tools to affect immediate and long-term change.

Getting to the bottom of what motivates you and keeps you fired-up with a positive attitude to your work is the key to turning around the statistics reported in this latest survey.

Leading from the front in this way will have a real impact on the influence you have with your staff to become more engaged, productive and committed to working for you.

Some Recruitment agencies offer a Career Services division and its been noted that more Clients are now interested in programmes that get to the bottom of what really motivates leaders and employees to keep working for them and offering new ways to affect positive attitudinal and behavioural change.

These specialised consultants within Career Services get to understand the needs of your business right from the top.

The Consultant are or can be people who have led and managed businesses themselves, so they know what it takes to keep yourself motivated and passionate about running your business, no matter what the size.

Only then can you lead a workforce who love what they do and are motivated and excited about turning up to work each day to perform well above their personal capability. An investment well worth made.

* Kate Ross is director of Kinetic Recruitment