Management Fundas
TEN GREAT WAYS TO MOTIVATE EMPLOYEES
Use the following checklist of effective techniques to keep your employees involved and motivated on an ongoing basis.
1. Personally thank employees for doing a good job—one on one, in writing, or both. Do it timely, often, and sincerely.
2. Take the time to meet with and listen to employees—as much as they need or want.
3. Provide employees with specific and frequent feedback about their performance. Support them in improving performance.
4. Recognize, reward, and promote high performers; deal with low and marginal performers so that they improve or leave.
5. Provide information on how the company makes and loses money, upcoming products, and services and strategies for competing. Explain the employee’s role in the overall plan.
6. Involve employees in decisions, especially those decisions that affect them. Involvement equals commitment.
7. Give employees a chance to grow and develop new skills; encourage them to be their best. Show them how you can help them meet their goals while achieving the organization’s goals. Create a partnership with each employee.
8. Provide employees with a sense of ownership in their work and their work environment. This ownership can be symbolic (e.g., business cards for all employees, whether they need them to do their jobs or not).
9. Strive to create a work environment that is open, trusting, and fun. Encourage new ideas, suggestions, and initiative. Learn from, rather than punish for, mistakes.
10. Celebrate successes—of the company, of the department, and of individuals. Take time for team- and morale-building meetings and activities. Be creative and fresh.
If you want to accomplish something significant, here are a number of key reasons why you should set goals:
• Goals provide direction. If you are planning to start up a new technology incubator in Toronto, there are plenty of different ways to achieve this particular result. The first step, however, is to set a
definite
Use the following checklist of effective techniques to keep your employees involved and motivated on an ongoing basis.
1. Personally thank employees for doing a good job—one on one, in writing, or both. Do it timely, often, and sincerely.
2. Take the time to meet with and listen to employees—as much as they need or want.
3. Provide employees with specific and frequent feedback about their performance. Support them in improving performance.
4. Recognize, reward, and promote high performers; deal with low and marginal performers so that they improve or leave.
5. Provide information on how the company makes and loses money, upcoming products, and services and strategies for competing. Explain the employee’s role in the overall plan.
6. Involve employees in decisions, especially those decisions that affect them. Involvement equals commitment.
7. Give employees a chance to grow and develop new skills; encourage them to be their best. Show them how you can help them meet their goals while achieving the organization’s goals. Create a partnership with each employee.
8. Provide employees with a sense of ownership in their work and their work environment. This ownership can be symbolic (e.g., business cards for all employees, whether they need them to do their jobs or not).
9. Strive to create a work environment that is open, trusting, and fun. Encourage new ideas, suggestions, and initiative. Learn from, rather than punish for, mistakes.
10. Celebrate successes—of the company, of the department, and of individuals. Take time for team- and morale-building meetings and activities. Be creative and fresh.
If you want to accomplish something significant, here are a number of key reasons why you should set goals:
• Goals provide direction. If you are planning to start up a new technology incubator in Toronto, there are plenty of different ways to achieve this particular result. The first step, however, is to set a
definite