How to keep your team motivated

Today I came across video on motivation. In the work place it is crucial as a manager to keep you team motivated. We all go trough times where we slack off or just have no motivation to do anything what so ever. This short video shows you in four steps on how to keep your team motivated. The first step is to create a contract with your workers. This contract will be no more than a page and consist of the guidelines and aspirations you expect from each employee at work. Next step is to have short frequent meetings that re-vist the contract and expectations. Studies have shown the farther and farther apart meetings are people tend to get off track and lose motivation. The third step is to have each employee stand up every week and say what they have accomplished. This makes everyone feel that they are important and increases motivation. The final step is to create a line of sight, meaning making sure the employees can see the impact of the end goal and what they are accomplishing. This way people will be more engaged and motivated to get things done.



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  1. UnknownMay 1, 2017 at 9:04 AM

    I actually found a study either similar to this or the same study (the rope pulling one). Definitely going to steal this for our presentation today!

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  2. Mark BonicaMay 5, 2017 at 11:23 AM

    I was thinking about this when I posted about teams on the Google Group.

    http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/01/munger_on_the_n.html

    At about the 50 minute mark Munger (chair of the PoliSci Dept at Duke) talks about a team of barge haulers who hired a monitor with a whip to beat any member of the team he thought wasn't pulling as hard as the monitor thought they should be.

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