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Book Description

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Motivating Employees is for you. The book inspires managers to accept their responsibility to foster motivation in the workplace. And it makes what they need to do to fulfill their important role simple and understandable. It doesn't matter whether you are motivating a lackluster existing team or a new team. This guide—along with the action plans, tools, and worksheets included—will help you take immediate action and make a powerful and lasting impact. Hundreds of reports and statistics prove that a motivating workplace is essential to the success of an organization. This practical guide concisely outlines the steps to creating and maintaining a fun, energized, and highly motivating work environment where employees want to work—and stay

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Chapter 1: The Importance of Motivation
    1. Creating a Motivating Environment
    2. The Benefits of a Motivating Environment
    3. Interpreting the Results
    4. A Business Case for Motivation
    5. The Key Principles in Motivation
  6. Chapter 2: Hiring and Keeping Motivated People
    1. Begin in the Beginning
    2. Act Early
    3. Current Employees
  7. Chapter 3: Motivating Employees to Achieve the Organization’s Goals
    1. Motivating Employees to Achieve the Goals
  8. Chapter 4: The Importance of Enthusiasm for Motivation
    1. Process of Building an Enthusiastic Team
    2. Rating Interpretation
    3. Setting Expectations
    4. Modeling Enthusiasm
    5. Ten Tips for Modeling Enthusiasm
    6. Team Meetings
    7. 15 Tips for Making Meetings More Exciting and Motivating
  9. Chapter 5: Performance Development as a Motivating Tool
    1. Setting the Stage Up Front for Growth
    2. The Growth and Development Meeting
    3. Following Up
    4. The Annual Review
  10. Chapter 6: Coaching to Motivate
    1. Why Is Coaching Important?
  11. Chapter 7: What Really Motivates People?
    1. What Gets Your People Excited?
    2. Distribution of Work
    3. Acknowledging Effort
    4. Team Outings
    5. Communication
  12. Chapter 8: Motivating with Rewards and Recognition
    1. Team Rewards
    2. Individual Rewards
    3. Ten Tips on Rewarding Employees
  13. Chapter 9: The Importance of Balance in a Well-Motivated Workforce
    1. The Concept of Life Balance
    2. Interpretation/Discussion
    3. Breaks
    4. Modeling Balance
  14. Chapter 10: Putting It All Together (Action Planning)
    1. An Action Plan
  15. Index
  16. About the Author
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