Excerpted from
the Executive Report: Why Good People Jump Ship
Involved
employees are motivated employees. So how do you make sure they're involved?
- Can you tell me
our top three goals for this year? (To analyze the level of engagement, people
need to be on the same page.)
- If you were
competing against our company, what would you do? (Managers are often surprised
to learn that employees know right where the weaknesses are.)
- What is currently
impossible to do that if it were possible would change everything? (This forces
people to think is there something different we can do? What drives us crazy
and how can we fix it?)
DIGGING DEEPER
Making sure your
best people stay is key to boosting business. To get help doing that, read the
Executive Report: Why Good People Jump Ship - and What You Can Do to Keep Them
I feel the best three questions to boost motivation (which really means activate an employee's passion for what he does) are:
1. What do you love to do and are there things at the company that will allow you to do more of what you love? (This activates an employee's emotional connection by adding things to their role that activates their passions and interests).
2. Does your job use what you are great at? (This opens a dialog for an employee to identify what his talents are and if his role plays to his talents. The closer the role and talents match, the more capable, confident and motivated an employee feels.)
3. What are three things we could do as a company to be more successful? (Soliciting input activates employees' sense of ownership and contribution. It is motivating to be included in an organization that asks their employees what they think, values their opinions and uses their ideas - it encourages them to think and act like owners).
Motivation is about connecting employees intellectually (they are good at what they do), emotionally (they are passionate about what they do) and personally (they have a stake in the results).
Posted by: Jay Forte | November 04, 2009 at 10:21 AM