Page 31 - How to Motivate Every Employee

Don’t worry about employee
buy-in
Get employees to buy

into your ideas—and

theirs
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The more input an employee can provide about the job he or she
is expected to perform, the more likely the employee is to buy into
your ideas for how to do it well. When they know you actually care
about their performance and are willing to listen to their ideas for
improvement, they’ll be motivated to accept your suggestions as well.
The term “buy-in” is one that every manager uses at one time or
another, but often not in the same way. If you think that getting your
employees to buy into a program means somehow compelling them
to accept it, you’re likely to run into problems. Employees truly buy

in when they decide to invest their individual abilities and energies,
as if they were business owners making a financial investment in a
joint venture. So give your employees the opportunity to get
involved. If you do, they will be motivated to buy into higher stan-
dards of performance on every level. Here you can contemplate
other ways this can be carried out successfully:

Give employees a role in raising workplace standards or perform-
ance: When you include your employees in raising workplace stan-
dards or performance levels, they’ll eagerly share with you their
ideas and suggestions for improving the process. Keep in mind that
almost all employees have a strong desire to play a role in raising

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