One of a manager's most important tasks is motivating their people. These resources will help you understand what makes your people tick, how different they all are, and what you need to do to motivate each of them to peak performance.
Ten quick tips on motivation that will help you become a better manager.
One of the most basic skills a manager must master is people management. In the end, all management is people management. Managers must know how to motivate their employees. The articles below answer the question how do I motivate employees.
Dealing With Difficult Employees helps managers prepare a plan, confront the behavior, and find a solution to the inappropriate behavior of difficult employees.
Employee Retention - Tips to increase employee retention
Employee retention tips - readers supply their favorite tips for increasing eemployee retention.
The Lesson of the Red Horse stresses the importance of employee motivation and its effect on performance, from your About.com Guide to Management.
For employee retention employee motivation is key, like putting the person in the right job.
Few CEOs do enough to maintain good relations with one important group of stakeholders, their employees. Lunch with the CEO is one way to correct that.
The best management tool may be a coffee cup. It gives you an opportunity to sit with someone and listen to them and learn. That kind of a conversation can be powerful employee motivation.
Lunch and Learn, A Program To Help Employees Grow explains what a lunch and learn program is and how to set one up so the company and the employees both benefit from it.
There is an old adage that you should "do what you love", but your passion for what you do can pay off in many ways. Read Passion Pays for tips on how to get more done at work and enjoy it more, even if your job isn't the most important thing in your life.
Don't ever underestimate the power of positive feedback. We are quick to point out to someone when they make a mistake. Sometimes we forget to acknowledge them when they do something right. Giving positive feedback can be a powerful tool for employee motivation. Here's how to use it most effectively.
When you need to give negative feedback, here are the things to remember.
The Right People in the Wrong Jobs - how you can make your people, and yourself, more productive and happier at the same time, from John Reh, your About.com Guide to Management
My Annual Letter to Santa Claus is one manager's wish list to Santa for the things to improve business, from John Reh, your About Management Guide
What Professional Baseball Can Teach Professional Managers - examines the similarities between coaching a successful baseball team and managing a successful business, from your About.com Guide to Management
