Fire Up Your Employees! - Monday
On June 30, 2008 in Thought for the Day
It is up to you, the manager, to FIRE UP! your employees. Your role is to ignite their passion for performance and activate their energy in the workplace. Gone are the days of dictating performance. Today, you must inspire and engage them. We are here to help. We work with managers who want to be more successful in activating and inspiring exceptional employee performance, to significantly drive customer loyalty and improve company profitability. Review our FIRE UP! Tip below and check back each day for more ways to Ignite performance.
FIRE UP! Tip
Host an “explain yourself” portion of each of your team meetings. Pick a topic and have each employee explain some aspect of him/herself related to the topic. Topics could include hobbies, food, favorite actors, what people like to read, favorite movies, where you shop, what aggravates you about …(work, customers, companies, traffic, etc). The topics are limitless and they do several important things: they get employees talking and they get employees connecting with each other. This builds relationships and shares critical information.
Workplace Wisdom
“Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail. “
Relationships are hot - the relationship between the manager and employee. The stronger this relationship, the greater the manager will know the employee, place her in the right role, motivate and develop her. It starts with the relationship – the fundamental millennial skill that is critical in work and in life. Review our new article Disconnected and Disengaged? Reconnect Employees to Exceptional Performance on our site or on www.ezinearticles.com. Share it with a friend.
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