Picture this: You’re the owner of a seat manufacturing company that produces seating for wheelchairs, auditoriums, and cars.
Employee Motivation: Build Trust and Respect
Employee and staff motivation is an often discussed topic. The opinions about how to get employees working range from hard driving close supervison to hands off and let the people create on their own. Most business owners and managers fall somewhere in between these two extremes.
Mozilla Incorporation Motivation Solved
After some time to think about the formation of a revenue-generating corporation under the Foundation umbrella, a solution presents itself.
Cisco Uploads Motivation 1.0 To Black Hat Community
Incensed by the networking company’s hostile treatment of former ISS researcher Michael Lynn, several hackers now seek to find new flaws in Cisco’s software.
Motivation ABC’s: Tune Up Your Booth Staff
Are your sales people burnt out? You may want to check. Have they clocked too many twelve hour days? Do they have enough frequent flier miles to charter a jet to Mars? Are their faces permanently skewed into perpetual smiles from chatting with hundreds of thousands of trade show attendees?
4 Powerful Ways To Fire Up Your Motivation
It’s so difficult to go on when everything seems to fail, isn’t it? Are there times in your life when you really want to call it “quits” because you just can’t see any good results from all the hard work you’ve done?
Googleopoly: The Motivation Behind Gmail
Just before the close of business on Wednesday, Google announced that it will be launching Gmail, its new free e-mail service set to offer 1000 megabytes of free space to its users. This announcement comes after a flurry of changes at Google, all of which are geared to securing their place as the dominant search engine in light of recent competition offered by Yahoo! and soon MSN. The search engine wars have been predicted for some time now by search engine insiders, and the launch of Gmail is Google’s attempt to win the war before it gets fully started. But is Google really ready to take on the big portals?
Maintaining Your Motivation
I recently spoke to a group of sales professionals at the end of their training conference. The attendees had participated in many learning sessions over a two day period – most of which were product related. I was scheduled to speak after dinner and I was somewhat concerned how attentive they would be by this time.
Stocking Your Motivation Toolbox
The same things don’t motivate everyone. You need to think about each individual’s needs. Then you need to take a peek inside your motivation toolbox. Just as you wouldn’t want to put together a bookcase with the wrong tools, you need to find the right motivational tool for a particular workplace job. If you develop a toolbox that contains lots of ways to motivate your employees, you’ll be on the path to creating a workplace that’s filled with enthusiasm. Here are some must-haves:
What is Your Motivation?
Why do you do the things you do? Why did you go to University? Why are you working for that particular company? Why did you skip University? Why did you get married? Why did you marry your spouse? Why are you single? Why are you doing that particular job? Why do you drive that particular car?