Motivational Workplace: Why an MD Missed a Trick to Motivate His People
Creating a Motivational Workplace is Not All About Financial Incentives
A participant at one of my workshops, “How to be an Outstanding Manager”, recently told me this story.
He was a senior finance manager (will keep the organisation confidential), tasked with making savings of £15000 in his department. This was achieved, largely through the creativity and work of two particular individuals.
A few weeks later, the MD was visiting the department on a “flying visit”. The finance manager mentioned these two, and suggested he just spare a couple of minutes in his schedule to personally thank them for their work.
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‘Tis exciting times! Now to those of you who have been blogging regularly for years, you’ll forgive me for my exuberance over something which is a bit of a “yawn” to you now!
There was a time when my eyes used to glaze over when people talked about all things technical, computer based or twittering!
OK – so I’m hardly an “early adopter” – but partly because when you run your own business you realise you’re missing a trick if you don’t embrace the brave new world, partly out of curiosity to see what all the fuss is about, and partly because I just got plain curious – I’ve started to take more than a passing interest, and even spent some time learning from those who already know!
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