Page 19 - How to Motivate Every Employee

Keep employees in the dark
about operations
Show employees how

the business operates

To succeed in today’s business environment, your employees need
to know far more about the business than just how to do their jobs.
They need to know how it operates.
Influential managers must take the responsibility to help workers
better understand the entire organization, gain a clearer perspective
on just how the business operates, analyze the competition, learn to
ake risks, and inspire innovative thinking.
As a manager, you understand how your organization operates
and manages its finances. That’s your job. So you might not realize
what it’s like to work without knowing how every person and every
job impacts the bottom line. When your employees learn how the
organization runs and how it spends and brings in the money, they
become more motivated to help make a difference.
Start by arranging for a business basics training program for all
workers. There are several on the market that can be customized to
your organization’s needs. These programs may use a game format
to explain how your organization operates and how it makes and
loses money. This can be an enjoyable and fun way to teach employ-
ees the business of being in business. And here are a few other sug-
gestions to get people moving on understanding business basics:
Talk money: Share the monthly departmental profit-and-loss state-
ments with your employees. This can quickly help workers to better

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