Signs of low motivation

Everyone goes through days of low motivation, but prolonged low motivation will lead to lower productivity and attrition. Here are a few tips to spot low motivation in an employee.

Lack of attention to detail

Employees find it hard to focus when motivation is low. The mind and body aren't in a great state to pay attention to detail. Here's an example:

Sumit was a good Product Manager, but suffering from low motivation since he got passed up for a foreign assignment. Ritesh, his manager, asked Sumit to prepare a presentation for a customer visit. It was a fairly simple task of taking the screenshots and writing a few bullets about the features. Sumit had done this so many times before, and although he really didn't feel like ...

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