Management Tips: From Harvard Business Review by Harvard Business Review

Author:Harvard Business Review
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781422158784
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Published: 2011-09-12T16:00:00+00:00

The more relevant the challenge and the higher the stakes, the more action learning stretches your employees and the more they learn.

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Participate in Their Stories

Motivating employees to higher levels of performance is a challenge for most leaders. Often people are motivated to do things simply because it feeds into the story they tell themselves. For example, your star performer regularly exceeds your expectations because she tells herself that she is the kind of person who impresses others, or a team member triple-checks a document because he is the kind of person who doesn’t make mistakes. You can fuel internal motivation by understanding and supporting these stories. First take notice of what kind of person your employee wants to be. Then articulate how what you need done fits into or even enhances that image.

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