What You and Your Manager Should Be Doing to Keep Motivated
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It's no secret that most of us are being asked to do more for less pay or to take on more work to help maximize the productivity of the company. Here's what your manager should be doing to help keep you on track, and keep you motivated--though you should be asking yourself how you can do this without relying on management involvement. The less your manager has to get involved, that usually means the better off you will be. The whole point is to open up communication by having honest discusion on:
You can't map a road without something to capture it. Let the discussion do that. So getting this figured out and documented should go a long way toward helping bridge the gap from disengagement to more productive work. Here are tips that managers and employees alike should understand, from BNET: |
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Comments (1)
Really, talk to your employees? Alert HBR and tell them we have a new business model guru.
The brain drain that is coming in the IT world will make Y2K look like the attendance at a Cleveland Indians home game. My employees are just biding their time until the "Meaningful Use" standards come out in Feb of next year. At that point they wil be able to command salaries at 2-4x what they are being paid now. Meanwhile, they are bored to tears with routine mainteance issues and no new projects on the horizon.
I don't believe that asking them a few warm and fuzzy questions and raising their expectations with little or no hope of being able to accomodate them is going to cut it. You sound like the promoter who is encouraging people to not cash in their $200 Michael Jackson tickets so that they can hold on to a piece of history that never happened.
Posted by Highfather | July 28, 2009 1:23 PM