Employee Motivation - Carrots and Confidence

Create an environment in which each employee feels himself a contributor, each employee feels valued, and watch your organization become more competitive in the marketplace. From fashioning carrots to fostering employee confidence, here's tips and advice on how to motivate employees, increase productivity, and reduce turnover - without sacrificing your own respect as a manager. Let's explore.

10 Ways To Stimulate Employee Motivation

By Paul Graham

Today’s fast-moving business environment demands that the effective manager be both a well-organized administrator and highly adept in understanding people’s basic needs and behaviour in the workplace. Gaining commitment, nurturing talent, and ensuring employee motivation and productivity require open communication and trust between managers and staff.

1. Understand their behaviour

People at work naturally tend to adopt instinctive modes of behaviour that are self-protective rather than open and collaborative. This explains why emotion is a strong force in the workplace and why...

Build Bridges Not Walls - Employee Recognition

By Trevor Marshall

Regular, one-on-one assessments with your staff provide an efficient two-way forum with which to set and review realistic achievement targets, provide feedback on...

Employee Motivation Techniques - How to Fire Up...

By Michael Lee

If you know how to motivate employees, your company's overall status and profits will improve as a result. Employees are the lifeblood of the...