Page 11 - How to Motivate Every Employee

Motivation isn’t your
problem
Build a motivated

workforce

TEAMFLY
Here’s the million-dollar question: Who would want to be influ-
enced and inspired by you? If you cannot answer this question, then
you have no business managing anyone. As a professional speaker
and corporate trainer, I have asked this question of thousands of man-
agers and leaders across America and abroad, and you’d be surprised
how difficult this question can be for some managers and supervisors
to answer. Oftentimes the response is simply a stunned hush.
Here’s why being able to answer this question is so important.
Managers can’t really do anything or be effective in their jobs, if
their employees aren’t motivated to perform well. So as a manager
or supervisor, it’s imperative that you continually look for ways to
engage your people and rouse their enthusiasm and commitment to
the organization and its goals.
The fact is that people are motivated to do what is in their best
interests. Your goal as a manager, then, is to help employees identify
their welfare with that of the organization. When this happens,
employees will naturally feel motivated to work hard, because it is in
their best interest to do so.
All this is another way of saying that motivation is intrinsic. It’s
what drives us to accomplish our desired ends. Whatever we do, it’s
always because we believe it will fulfill some present or future person-
al goal or desire.

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