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Rewards and Recognitions to Motivate Employees
Written by: Patricia WeberArticle Overview: Knee deep in the challenge of leadership today, business owners and managers, can parlay the changing role of work to create and sustain an environment that helps motivate and keep employees. There’s no one right answer, there is no magic wand and don’t try to mind read how to motivate someone.
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Rewards and Recognitions to Motivate Employees
Knee deep in the challenge of leadership today, business owners and managers, can parlay the changing role of work to create and sustain an environment that helps motivate and keep employees. There’s no one right answer, there is no magic wand and don’t try to mind read how to motivate someone.
Lesson: If you think money is the answer, think again because it is not! The truth to this is in research as recent as 2006.
A straight and fast way to influence employee performance to use both the P in aptitude and the T in attitude is with the effectiveness of your rewards and recognitions.
Money is proven over and over again in research to be a short term motivator. You want to be creative with your approach. And for certain, the most effective route is in the little things: do you treat people fairly with pay and benefits? Do you stop and catch people doing the “right” thing? Do you do on the spot coaching to help someone improve their performance? For that employee who wants to move ahead, do you offer training or coaching to higher levels of productivity? Do you say, “Thank you,” when it’s least expected? The old cliché expression, “you get what you reward,” has volumes of application to your being able to create the environment to motivate employees.
One thing certain: if you ask employees what they want, and you listen, you will learn either what to give them or figure out a way for them to earn it. It’s not necessary to hand them keys to a new car or a membership in a country club. What you do have to do with your rewards and recognition process is satisfy human needs: security, meaningful work and supportive relationships.
The article Motivating Employees in the Workplace, gives you a birds eye view of the four key factors to create a motivating environment for employees.
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- 1. Give Employees More Than a Paycheck
2. Provide Better eSupport Channels to Promote Self-Service
3. Complete your most dreaded tasks first thing in the morning.
4. Outsource as much as possible
5. . Turn off the TV.
CEOs and Email - Slaves?
- I wonder if the emails they are responding to are filtered thru their assistants first 'cos they seem to spend a lot of their off hours responding to them.
True they are successful but I'm not sure I'd be willing to pay that price.
I'd be interested to know what's the in the typical day planner of Entrepreneurs on the Forum.
Entrepreneurs are a different breed than Paid Employees- so it would be interesting to view the contrast.
Where I want WSI to be in Dec 31 2007
- Here are my goals for end of 2007
Employees
- SEO specialist
- admin assistant
- sales rep
- designer/data entry
- copy writer (may be outsourced)
Target market (client base)
manufacturers 10-50 million in revenue looking for integrated marketing solution ranging from 10k - 30k
Systems
- crm fully utilized
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Last years sales revenue was $220K
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Re: How to be green?
- Hi Evan
It’s a great topic especially when it comes to going green and saving our planet. We all have a role to play and we are happy about the fact that we are into it.
We have recently made our workplace greener and in the process the following changes have been implemented –
1. We provide paper invoices only if customers ask for them. Otherwise, all our invoicing is done electronically (a PDF via e-mail).
2. We have replaced the Paper Cups at our Cafeteria with Mugs for not only our in-house requirements but also for our clients.
3. We have also made it a Company policy to use only eco-friendly electronic appliances and that includes bulbs, air conditioners.
4. We are in the process of putting it into the Policy that the Employees will have to take to other transportation media – other than their personal vehicles – on at least a day per week to office.
Hope we are on the right track.
Regards,
Re: What do think you about these statisitcs?
- [quote="Sab3awy":uve2pm9e]social networks are not just for fun. Say Twitter, I usually check it to find the updates about major news through it. So, I think it is not much of "wasting time"[/quote:uve2pm9e]
Social media is a great way to break up the day in the office in my opinion. Employees can take their mind off of the monotonous work they are doing just for a few minutes. In my opinion I don't think they are wasting time at all. Consider this, would you rather block these types of sites and have your employees work all day like a drone? Or would you rather have these sites available and perhaps see an increase in productivity because your employees are working happier and in not in such a mindless state?
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