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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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How To Improve Team Productivity All companies want to improve employee productivity, as this gives competitive advantage and contributes to overall profitability, but managers rarely look at operational practices to see what impact they have on morale and output. Particularly naive managers assume that staff are focused and motivated but the reality of the situation …
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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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 Use Communication To Increase Team And Individual Motivation To increase motivation in your team and its individual members, using simple communication techniques, try the following and modify your approach for each individual team member as you go: Clarify and agree tasks before they actually begin Seek out empathy – does the individual or …
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How Can I Improve My Work Output? If we have a Project that has gone well the temptation is to bathe in the glory and then move onto the next big issue – whilst this is a perfectly natural thing to do it is far better to sit down and analyse and identify the nuts …
4 Excellent Ways To Motivate Your Staff Getting the most from your staff gives your organisation a critical advantage over your competition and makes for a productive and harmonious workplace. The push is for obtaining energy for action and maintaining that flow of energy and commitment. Focus on the bigger picture: showing the bigger vision …
The Top 5 Causes Of Poor Staff Motivation. We can spend huge amounts of time thinking about ways to motivate staff. This then means we spend considerable sums of money then implementing the ideas which may, or may not, actually improve all things Motivation. Perhaps a different approach is needed? Implementing the following might be …
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