Employee motivation involves more than just salary and bonuses.

A frequent question we get from managers at all levels is how to motivate consistent high performance from others.

In today’s business environment, you can’t force anyone to do anything.

As a manager, you need to think of yourself as leading a volunteer army. In the words of President Dwight Eisenhower, you need to get people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The fact is, psychological research proves that praise and appreciation is far a more effective employee motivation strategy than threats or punishment. 

When people want to do something they tend to put in more and better effort than if they believe that they have to do it. And in this post we share a motivation strategy that you can use to encourage this kind of voluntary contribution from everyone around you.  (more…)