Archives for January 2008
Motivating Staff For 2008
Many of my friends are currently preparing for their yearly reviews, looking back over 2007 and forward at 2008. I cant think of one of them who is looking forward to the day when they have to sit with their manager and go through the process! On asking them why, its not that they dont like their manager its just that they always feel in some way demotivated when they leave. Demotivated at the start of the year!! So as a manger how can you leave your staff motivated for the year ahead?
- Review their appraisal before sitting down with them and prepare yourself, words, feelings, examples, etc
- Dont forget to ask them for their ‘highs & lows’ for the year and anything they would have liked to have done differerently
- Praise them for the work they’ve done in the previous year
- Be honest about their development areas, focusing on their behaviour, rather than making it personal
- Agree business & development objectives for the coming year and check motivation levels to achieve them
- Remember if the employee ‘owns’ the objective and can ’see’ it happening they are far more likely to achieve it
- and dont forget YOU need to support them…that’s another lesson in coaching and one that can start with a great read - Coaching For Performance: Growing People, Performance and Purpose
Maybe if everybody went through a similar process there might, just might, be one or two more motivated staff willing to go that extra mile to ensure a change to the ‘bottom line’?
