Use Positive Motivation Techniques
Does your organization have a strategy for motivating its employees? People feel motivated when their personal reason for being aligns with the organization’s purpose. In addition, people are not necessarily motivated by money or things. Money and things are short-lived. The joy associated with this type of reward dissipates quickly, and is often replaced with a sense of entitlement. People come to expect the bonus or the trophy and are upset when, even after doing mediocre work, they don’t get it.
According to Daniel Pink, “When contingent rewards aren’t involved, or when incentives are used with the proper deftness, performance improves and understanding deepens.”97 Assuming that people are being compensated with a living wage, initially, people performing in service to an articulated higher purpose achieve more than those who perform for tangible rewards. Therefore, it is important they understand why they...