If you want your employees to be motivated, to out-produce their peers, to deliver more than they ever have in the past, be open and honest with them. Treat them like the adults they are and not like your children.
Motivation Magic
Here are some specific articles that deal with motivating employees. All of them stress different aspects of treating employees with the respect they are due and treating them as adults. Try this approach and you will be amazed at the improvements you will see. Productivity will increase. Absenteeism will decrease. You'll see more innovation. And your job will be just a little bit easier.- Management Tips for Motivation Ten quick tips on motivation that will help you become a better manager.
- How Do I Motivate Employees? 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 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 Employee Retention - Tips to increase employee retention
- Employee Retention Tips From Readers Employee retention tips - readers supply their favorite tips for increasing eemployee retention.
- The Lesson of the Red Horse The Lesson of the Red Horse stresses the importance of employee motivation and its effect on performance, from your About.com Guide to Management.
- Larry Doesn't Work Here Anymore For employee retention employee motivation is key, like putting the person in the right job.
- Lunch with the CEO 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 Coffee Cup As a Management Tool 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 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.
- Passion Pays 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.
- How To Give Positive Feedback 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.
- How To give negative feedback properly When you need to give negative feedback, here are the things to remember.
- The Right People in the Wrong Jobs The Right People in the Wrong Jobs - how you can make your people, and yourself, more productive and happier at the same time.
