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EMPLOYEE
MOTIVATION
Connect
with your employees.
With the workforce getting younger,
old employee strategies don’t work.
Motivate Generation X on their level.
- Help
them “Train for another job”. The way to keep them is to
help them acquire new skills that make them more marketable;
the more they learn, the more they’ll want to stay around.
- Give
them responsibility for projects. Use their independent spirit
to assign clearly defined goals—and the freedom to achieve
them in their own way
- Offer
constant informal feedback rather than periodic performance
reviews. Formal sporadic reviews are not timely enough to
keep up with the rapid pace younger employees work best.
- Offer
them access to different kinds of information. They are adept
at using different data and technology to bring together
a variety of elements and solve problems. Managers who hoard
information are stifling the greatest resources younger workers
bring to the table.
BE
A BETTER BOSS
- Set
SMART (specific, measurable, accepted, relevant, time-bound)
goals. “Do your best” doesn’t work.
- Reward
your doers.
- Focus
on perceptions of fairness—not happiness.
- Encourage
straight talk and constructive conflict.
- Frequently
communicate goals, company strategy and initiatives; you
cannot over-communicate!
- Model
the way—tell the truth.
- Enlist
employee’s input.
- Recognize
and celebrate employee success every chance you get.
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