Chapter 10
Implementing Key Strategies to Motivate Your Employees
IN THIS CHAPTER
Keeping your focus on motivating performance rather than emotional well-being
Using recognition and passion about work as effective motivators
Tuning into your own behavior and seeing how it can help motivate
Matching individual needs with business needs
Motivating employees is a coaching tool that focuses on creating conditions that can stimulate high levels of performance. Performance, the focus of coaching, involves behavior — yours and your employees’ — in the workplace. Even though work life and personal life sometimes converge (and occasionally crash) when people come to work, motivation as a coaching tool concentrates on job performance. You don’t need for a degree in psychology, a license to practice therapy, or experience as a parent. All you need is to be a manager who wants to positively influence employee commitment and performance.
This chapter focuses on how you can motivate employee performance with coaching by utilizing these strategies.
Focusing on Performance
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