Importance of Inspirational Speakers in India

Change is the only constant. This oft used phrase has never been more true than it is today. Companies employ inspirational speakers in India these days to help their teams and employees to cope with the change and uncertainty. Inspirational speakers motivate and challenge the audience to think differently and challenge themselves.

Inspirational speakers in India usually are the CEO’s or upper management professionals who have faced and seen a lot of changes and dealt with uncertainty in their careers and emerged successful. These speakers build a rapport with the audience by sharing personal stories and anecdotes and arm the audience with strong takeaways to tackle any tough work situation they are faced with. 

Inspirational speakers are employed by companies to communicate strategy in a clear and concise way and through motivational speeches that the speakers will give to the audience interspersed with company messaging. Even the audience feels it is safer to speak their mind when there are external speakers – because they are an unbiased third party and the company seniors are not present in these sessions. So employees feel it is okay to share any issues and concerns they might have and the speakers in turn help them out either through anecdotes or some practical takeaways that they can incorporate in their daily use. 

Tips to inspire your employees

There always are phases that employees go through, and the most concerning phase is when the excitement and enthusiasm towards work is the lowest. The reasons may be plenty, but the result is just one - low productivity. And to bring them back to function at their optimum level, leaders need to inspire.

Here are ten ways you can inspire your employees to help them increase their productivity.

•    Employees are important to the organization - Realise the worth of your employees. Take some time to interact with your employees and make them realise how their hard work can help in improvement of a project. People like to go ahead and work only if they find that they have a certain standing.

•    Know your employees well - Knowing your employee via his/her resume doesn’t help in the long run. Start spending some time with your team. Apart from business meetings, set an informal catch-up meet. This will help you understand their aspirations, behavior etc.

•    Be open to getting feedback, ideas - Keep your ego aside. Taking feedback regarding a certain project at hand creates trust with employees. Never underestimate an idea, instead, give a valid point as to why a certain idea can be taken or not.

•    Give ownership - Be a leader who can give certain guidelines, but don’t not spoon-feed. Also, a task can be done in several ways. Do not just stick to your own way. Give your employees ownership and freedom of doing the work they feel can bring a difference.

•    Set an example -   Be the way you want your employees to be like. This will inspire them to work by maintaining a certain discipline.

•    Help in the growth of your employees - Many inspirational speakers in India say that it is important to be a little more sensitive towards your employees. Do not just worry about your own profit and growth, instead look after learning, skill development and also the professional growth of your employees.

•    Help them build a work-life balance - Work productivity of employees increases with work-life balance. Understand that just because you’ve hired your employee, you don’t own them. Do not keep them loaded with work. They need time to relax, rejuvenate and get back to work with a new zeal. Make leave policies simpler, introduce work from home options if it works for your business.

•    Trust – It is the key to inspiring people. People will always value the fact you trust them and find them responsible enough to take care of the work.

•    Recognition - Do not hesitate to reward and recognise the hard work of your employees. Show them the result of their dedication, work, and team spirit. This will motivate them.

Where Do You Get Your Inspiration From?

Every discovery and every invention that was made had a creative brain behind it. And every creative thought is born by fuelling the imagination. And that fuel which ignites imagination thus leading to discoveries and inventions is called ‘inspiration’. It is inspiration that ignites the fire within to do something unique to or utilise one’s strengths to achieve one’s dreams or goals.

There are several ways by which inspiration can be drawn. For some it is vision, for some words. For some it is deeds while for some it is the doers. While objects such as mountains inspired people to scale them and oceans inspired to explore their depths, in many cases it has been people – the doers – to have become inspirations for people to beat every hurdle and become examples for others to get inspired from.

In today’s immensely competitive world where the struggle for survival usually makes one forget his/her passion, it is seen that the zeal to innovate or think out of the box does not last for long. Organisations are faced with the problem of engaging employees for a long period of time and moreover, it becomes a challenge to get the best results due to lack of motivation. So, it is those who have met their dreams, who have set a benchmark for the others and who have been torchbearers that become inspirations for the rest.Listening to and interacting with such achievers always help inspire people to realise and rise above their capabilities. There is a gamut of inspirational speakers in India who not only are inspiring because of the feat that they have been able to achieve, but also because of their thoughts.

From industrialists to sportsmen, from famous personalities form the entertainment industry to those who have made a name despite physical inhibitions; these speakers can inspire people to jump a step ahead of them.