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Increase Turnover By Paying Your Staff More! Let’s all learn a priceless (no pun intended!) lesson from an entrepreneur who decided to turn the traditional concept of only paying staff a salary sufficient to retain them, to investing in giving his staff an excellent salary package to retain and motivate them. Flies in the face …
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What Staff Want From Their Managers The working relationships that are effective, productive and above all else satisfying and motivating for all concerned depend on a number of common principles that operate regardless of the type of organisation that you find yourself in. Try looking at what you do to see if this correlates with …
Motivating A Negative Person Team members can become de-motivated for a wide variety of reasons but if this happens it is the manager’s job to correct this situation and re-energise that individual. Try the following strategies to get motivation moving again: Use problems to motivate them. If this is presented as a serious issue that …
How To Generate Staff Engagement It’s all about impact. The problem is that thought we never see the full impact of what we do, the damage we create and the amount of work we create for others. What we do need to do is create an engagement approach that inspires others to take actions that …
Increasing Staff Motivation And Performance Made Easy In all organisations, the pressure is on to get the most return from all available resources, which inevitably means maximising the effort and contribution of staff. Traditionally management theory focused unhealthily upon using financial reward as a key means by which to increase effort, application to the task …
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Three Top Motivational Tips A happy employee is a productive employee – a statement that will never change and which will always be true. The trick is to consistently provide sources of motivation, even for your star players. What makes this even more important for successful organisations is that the expectation of employees has steadily risen …
Three Golden Keys To Unlock Motivation In Your People Motivated staff give a business a clear competitive edge, especially where the market is crammed with businesses offering either the same, or very similar, products and services. Many managers see this as a big challenge and a weakness in their style and methods of operation if …
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How To Help Others To Improve Ask open and probing questions to help discover the sources of problems Accept mistakes and use them as learning opportunities Help develop action plans for improvements rather than just talking around problems Always try to educate rather than just to assist with the problem Provide meaningful and relevant feedback …
How To Be A Good Motivator Good managers are successful managers and achieve results through their team members. To get the best from your human resources requires considerable skill and application but getting there can be achieved by using the following pointers to sharpen up your managerial style. If your staff enjoy their working environment …
How To Set Goals That Motivate Staff A key part of the Manager’s job role is making sure that staff are developed and encouraged to tackle progressively more demanding and challenging tasks – in this way organisational objectives are met and personal development and growth is promoted! The trick is, as ever, making sure that …
