Motivating Beyond Money

Rus Slater

Description

Based on real research with real people this guide helps you to find ways to keep your good people motivated without just paying them more money. Practical ideas to help managers and small business owners.

Sujets

• Gestion et management

Informations

• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 30 janvier 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781781660171
• Langue: English

Extrait

Title Page

MOTIVATING BEYOND MONEY

How to motivate your good performers without just throwing money at them


By
Rus Slater


Publisher Information

Motivating Beyond Money published in 2012 by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com

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The characters and situations in this book are entirely imaginary and bear no relation to any real person or actual happening.

Copyright © Rus Slater

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About the Author

Rus Slater is a UK management coach, trainer and consultant and a business author with a 20 plus year career and four internationally published books under his belt. Rus has worked with clients in the private and public sector and also has experience with charities. He has both line managed staff and has advised managers, in good times and bad, through massive change and during business-as-usual. He has met many people over the years who are good performers; they are either meeting or exceeding expectations, but they are just not motivated by the way they are managed. This guide is a distillation of much that he has learned.




Management Takes Time and Effort

Traditionally we spend a lot of management effort focusing on pulling the low performers up by their bootstraps whilst we let the good performers get on with it. This is a completely understandable but counterproductive strategy; It tends to make people fear management interventions as the connotation is that “if the boss is around something is going wrong” It tends to mark out the underperformers as ‘different’ (which they are but in addition to the point above this is not helpful) It results in good performers feeling unloved and unappreciated because they may go for long periods without management contact It can result in good performers missing out on things on the grounds that they don’t have that contact and… …it can result in management missing out on good performers improvement suggestions because they just don’t have the contact

Good performers are then often reluctant to raise problems, issues or unhappinesses because they don’t want to join the ‘special’ group.
It makes management a miserable job because you are concentrating most of your time on the problems and the underachievers which is a will sapping activity when you are doing it day-in-day-out.