Employee Motivation - Get The Basics Right FirstWritten by Martin Haworth
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Achievable Goals By being really, really clear about what you expect from your employees, you will set scene for commited staff. Through knowing exactly what their performance should look like to be judged excellent, by you, gets buy-in, big-time. So be clear, give them resources to achieve success and they will be well onside.Being Thanked As they do a good job for you each day - tell them! Appreciation for acheiving success, especially when it's from boss is so important. So recognising excellent performance, even for small tasks, cost nothing and takes but a moment - worth building into your day job activities - every day!Challenge People like to do new things, to explore, to seek out and utilise their potential, Sometimes this means they will have to be 'stretched' in what they do. With a helping hand, to support, coach and grow skills of your people, you are setting in place a keen, ambitious and ready-for-the-next-experience star in making. So find new ways to develop them.Security In today's business climate, it isn't always easy to build best future consistently - things change too much, too quickly. But you can go some way to ensure that it is a safe place to be. With this level of security, your people will loosen up and feel capable of being with you, rather than against. It is a measure of your own leadership as to how well this works. These are basics for your people - get these right and you will be 85% there, in having motivated people working with you. Then you can turn on charm, get radical and creative and find them right there alongside you (in front even!). Focused on building your business strongly.
© 2005 Martin Haworth is a Business and Management Coach. He works worldwide, mainly by phone, with small business owners, managers and corporate leaders. He has hundreds of hints, tips and ideas at his website, www.coaching-business-to-success.com.
| | Agendas Make Meetings ProductiveWritten by Martin Haworth
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Action Points As meeting progresses there will be action points that individual meeting members will be accountable for. By having a spot on agenda for a quick review, prior to circulating these in writing, everyone will be clear on what is expected of them.Parked Items Sometimes during a meeting, items arise which whilst important, are outside scope of that particular meeting. So by both 'parking' them during meeting, thus validating their importance, and having a specific point to check next steps for them is clear, they do recieve attention. This then allows meeting purpose to be maintained.Next MeetingBy ensuring date of next meeting is an agenda item, this serves three purposes- It indicates to meeting attendees follow up meetings
- It gives an indication of when agreed action points from meeting are likely to be required
- Finally, it reminds person responsible for agenda to agree a clear date during meeting - if not, it is likely to slip.
Meeting Review Your agenda should also be an ongoing learning tool. As such, and to ensure your meetings truly make a difference, there is a real benefit in reviewing how things have worked in meetng - for all participants. Agenda it!
© 2005 Martin Haworth is a Business and Management Coach. He works worldwide, mainly by phone, with small business owners, managers and corporate leaders. He has hundreds of hints, tips and ideas at his website, www.coaching-business-to-success.com.
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