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Practical Guide For Motivating Employees

Motivating employees can be exhausting ...

But it may be the single most important thing you do as a manager. Because the alternative - an unengaged staff - doesn't just cost you and your company time and money - it leads to a workplace no one wants to work for. Who wants that?

We aren't psychics or psychologists. We need a framework, tools and encouragement to create an engaged team of empowered and accountable employees who don't come to work just to punch a clock for a paycheck.

In this Blueprint you'll find guidance to:

Identify self-motivated employees before you hire them
Uncover the unique intrinsic motivators each employee has - regardless of age group or position
Dole out praise, rewards and recognition that goes beyond short term motivation and creates lasting engagement
Motivate employees in difficult work situations and constant change
Avoid the subtle stumbling blocks that undermine your motivation efforts ...

Plus, the answers to key questions like:

How to motivate employees and provide incentives (other than money)?
All my employees are different, how do I figure out what motivates each person?
How do I deliver incentives and rewards without breeding entitlement?
How to tell if someone is self motivated before I hire them?
How do we create an environment that fosters productivity and engagement?
How to set expectations and get employees to embrace accountability?

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The Big Picture of Employee Motivation and The Value of an Engaged Workforce

Understanding core principles of motivating employees is the foundation all managers need to know. Here's a few nuggets you'll get:

71% of employees say they are not motivated - here's how much these disengaged employees cost in terms of mistakes, lost opportunities and outright failures. (pg 14-15)
The two types motivation - understanding intrinsic and extrinsic motivators. (pg 9-10)
Why an over-reliance on external motivators leads to short-term gain and brutal long-term impact. (pg 11)
4 myths of motivation debunked (pg 13-14)

Success Plan: 9-Step ResourcefulManager Motivation Framework

When you read this section you'll get step-by-step guidance for the 9 key elements of employee motivation. Here's a sample of what you'll find inside:

10 interview questions that help you uncover self-motivated people – and the types of responses you should look for during the hiring process (pg 23-26)
Why a candidate's motivation to "GET the job" can obscure your ability to see if they will be motivated to "DO the job" - and how to avoid it (pg 22-23)
How employee motivation and job expectations are connected – and how to uncover if your employees are confused about their role (pg 27-30)
What real workplace fun consists of - and why it's necessary if you want your employees excited to come to work every day (pg 31-32)
5 inexpensive teambuilding activities that boost morale (pg 32-34)
6 ways to spot employees who are intrinsically motivated vs. those who are just in it for the paycheck (pg 35-38)
Using empowerment to motivate – and why micro-managing actually gets you minimal effort from employees (pg 39)
7 simple keys to building an environment of trust (pg 42-43)
Why 42% of employees are actively looking for a new job – and why one word goes a long way towards rectifying this (pg 44-46)
What it takes to be a motivational manager – 16 dos and don'ts (pg 47-52)
6 keys to avoid short-term bursts of motivation and sustain it over the long haul (pg 53-56)
Why regular rewards lose their value over time and the smarter approach to rewarding employees that won't get stale (pg 54)

Putting The Motivation Framework Into Practice

How to motivate across the four generations of employees (pg 59-61)
The valuable "know-it-all" - is there any motivating them? (see how on pg 62-63)
Motivating in challenging situations - budget cuts, layoffs and change (pg 63-65)
5 signs of employee entitlement - how to prevent it or root it out if it already exists (pg 66-68)
The difference between a bad hire and a bad fit (pg 68-70)
When to cut bait if motivational efforts simply aren't working (pg 70)

Stumbling Blocks: The Top 20 Killers of Employee Motivation

By the time you get to this section you'll have a framework for motivating all types of employees - and how to put it into practice at your company. But you also need to watch out for these, and many other, stumbling blocks included in this Blueprint:

Why you must get past this internal bias to truly motivate your team #2 on pg 72)
Pay matters, but not as much as you think – study suggests 25% of highly motivated employees would jump ship for this % pay increase #16 on pg 75)
Resist this common urge when it comes to achieving goals (#19 on pg 76)
Avoid this oversight that makes you look like a selfish, ego-driven manager that all employees hate (if you're deliberately doing this you're a flat out terrible manager) - #11 on pg 74
The two things almost every manager skimps on that every employee craves (#13 & #17 on pg 75-76)

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