* Company culture: If management's attitude is lax and absenteeism is accepted as a normal practice, organization's culture may have to be changed before attendance can be improved.

* Excessive rates of sick leave: As some insurance companies are now doing, employers need to monitor sick leave rates and reward employees who use fewer sick leaves.

Once you know cause of absenteeism in your organization, it will become easy for you to correct, or minimize, problem. But you have got to do your homework.

Remember: When you maximize your potential, everyone wins. When you don't, we all lose.

By exposing them to information that develops them as persons, we help them reach into their deep reservoirs of ability and bring more of it to surface. Consequently, they have more spontaneous skills and abilities to bring to table, whether that “table” is at work, at home, at church, or school.

To motivate human beings is not to force-feed them. They are at all times free to reject or ignore that to which they are exposed. But they don't; they come back for more.

We cannot motivate others; that’s something can have to do by themselves. However, we can set motivational climate and they’ll respond, not because they have to, but because they want to.

Now, wouldn’t you rather have a well-oiled, highly motivated individual functioning at his (or her) maximum potential on your team?

Remember: When you maximize your potential, everyone wins. When you don't, we all lose.