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Want to keep your top talent happily engaged and on board for the long term? Want to inspire your other employees to reach their full potential? It’s easy! All you have to do is show ’em that you […]
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The key is to reframe your feedback as follows: Focus first on specific positives. (“The way you ______and ______ is perfect because _____________________.”) Then, start your next sentence with: “What would make it even better is if you […]
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Want to keep your top talent happily engaged and on board for the long term? Want to inspire your other employees to reach their full potential? It’s easy! All you have to do is show ’em that you […]
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The following is based on a recent article on inc.com… Praising employees with an unspecific “job well done” or “way to go” does little to ensure the desired behavior will be repeated. Praising employees instead for the strategies […]
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When we tell people how to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get their jobs done, we get leaders. (If you don’t or can’t trust them, why did you hire them and […]
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Here are the five major motivators of STAR* employees, no matter their age/generation: Opportunities to learn and grow Being a valued member of a productive team Management feedback that helps them be even better at their […]
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A magnetic manager is someone who easily attracts and retains STAR* employees and one secret that separates them from other professionals is feedback (and not necessarily the glowing kind). In 2014, Harvard Business Review contributors surveyed 900 employees to get […]
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In sports, the goal is always clear cut… outscore the opponent. You can motivate your work team in a similar way. Whether it’s to outperform a competitor or beat last year’s production record, when you give your employees […]
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The slide excerpt below is from a recent workshop on hiring, motivating, and retaining teenage workers: What Motivates Teenagers? Clear Goals, Incentives, Friends, Participation, Communication, Concern, Respect & Courtesy, Great boss and good coworkers, Interesting work What do you […]
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You can promise the rock a reward or you can threaten to punish it, but, no matter what you do, that rock just ain’t gonna move. The only way to make a rock move is to pick […]