Ten Top Ways for Managers to Motivate Their People

Written by Martin Haworth


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  • Be Understanding This tip needs careful and skilful management and great managers can do it. Understand that your people are real people with emotions and experiences which impact on them. Being sympathetic to their needs, occasionally and not so often that it impacts your business, will bring great rewards and commitment. Do set ground rules for yourself which allow 'understanding', yet enable you to drawrepparttar line clearly and firmly when you need to. Be consistent and fair.

  • Get Out of Their Way By allowing your people to carry out 'the boss's work', you strongly build self-belief in your people. Be fair and don't just delegaterepparttar 135982 'rubbish' jobs, but some of your fun jobs as well (and remember to choose individuals whose strengths matchrepparttar 135983 task).

  • Share How You are Feeling By being a partner with your people and showing that you are a real person too, you will encourage others to take big steps with you. This works because understanding that you share hopes, fears and challenges in common with your people makes them feel a committed part of you, as well as your business - this is a powerful message which they share

  • Reward Last but not least, pay appropriately. Whilst if you pay brilliantly, yet miss out 1-9 you may get short-term gain, it is unlikely to maintain motivation for more than a while. Conversely, if you pay badly, you may lose people because they simply can't afford to stay with you, however great it is. Striking a balance isrepparttar 135984 ideal. Don't forget to recognise with some fun rewards and as in No. 6, say thank you a lot. It will pay dividends and is free!



    © 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-businesses-to-success.com. (Note to editors. Feel free to use this article, wherever you think it might be of value - with a live link if you can).


    • Make Money Blogging Using These Nine Powerful Strategies

    Written by Brandon Hong


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    This is another way to make money blogging.

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    8. How to Make Money Blogging by well, asking!

    Hey, who's stopping you from putting a PayPal donation jar or button on your Blog? After all, there are lots of generous people out there you know.

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    In affiliate marketing, you get paid a commission when someone clicks on your affiliate link and makes a purchase. Depending onrepparttar 135983 subject of your Blog, you can recommend products that solve people's problems.

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    Brandon Hong is the author of "Marketing Rampage with Blogs and RSS" Videos E-course and also "Blogs and RSS Revealed" comprising an Ebook and Audio webcast, that teaches businesses strategies of building more responsive buyers and increasing search engine rankings, using Blogs and RSS. www.blogs-and-rss-revealed.com www.marketing-rampage-with-blogs-and-rss.com


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