What are the key components of a successful and productive workforce? Focus, purpose, skill, equity, reinforcement, completion, and most importantly, motivation. Motivation is a proactive driving force meant to energize, propel, and guide a staff. Successful motivation is a bit of a moving target – with a changing set of obstacles and effective stimuli – but it is one of the most worthwhile endeavors a skilled manager can partake in.
At its starting point, motivation operates on an individual level – but it quickly grows and influences an entire team – with the potential to change the team’s culture. That culture, in turn, folds back and influences the individuals. It’s a continuing cycle that greatly determines whether your organization is heading towards success or failure.
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