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By introducing our Management Training courses to your staff we help ease the negative effect of change on both managerial and supervisory personnel. The change in job responsibilities, the change in personnel, job duties, and the rising challenge of developing subordinates are specific goals of our learning systems courses. We are highly successful at helping Managers and Supervisors learn and adapt to the necessary skills and proper behaviors to be successful at work as well as in their personal lives.

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As a part of our management training courses, Managers and Supervisors will learn how to:

  • Minimize the chance of miscommunication by understanding what people are really saying, and why
  • Deal with difficult people, manage tense situations, and resolve conflict
  • Make use of proven active listening skills to improve your ability to gain helpful information
  • Be able to facilitate, guide, and close discussions in one-on-one or group settings
  • Improve understanding and communication by giving and receiving good feedback
  • Use ideas submitted by a member of the team without causing other members to be defensive
  • Develop a comprehensive team building strategy that improves productivity of the whole team
  • Emphasize the value of working toward common goals without devaluing individual accomplishment
  • Define and set up a method to track staff activities
  • Be able to manage time and work assignments effectively
  • Conduct team meetings that capture and hold the audience’s attention
  • Interview and hire the right person for the right job
  • Save time and work more effectively through the use of a clear time management plan
  • Understand and comply with proper hiring and managing requirements
  • Communicate effectively with both superiors, peers and subordinates
  • Become effective coaches for their work team
  • Conduct accurate and difficult performance appraisals

 

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Why Money Doesn't Motivate Part 2

The second part of "Employee rewards myths busted 1: why money doesn't really motivate" explains what needs can be fulfilled with money, and which can't. Money serves people for survival and subsistence needs, but it can only play an assistant's role in achieving one's higher aims in life.

What needs money can fulfill Maslow places money with the deficiency needs, meaning that it serves to see that one has food and warmth, as well as providing shelter and safety. It basically means that it allows you to survive, and to have a decent living. I would add to this the basic commodities that we take for granted to day that constitue a decent living: a place to stay, a fridge, a shower, and also a TV, travel, gifts.

What needs money can't fulfill Money can partially fulfill one's need for belonging to a social group, by allowing one to participate in activities that you need money for. It won't automatically make you belong though - more is needed for that. You can be the richest person in the world and still have the feeling that you don't belong to a social group.

To a degree, money can raise one's even higher need for self-esteem but, as James L. Hayes put it, 'only for a short time and only as long as it serves as a measure of worth or of power or of victory'. Maslow speaks of achievement, mastery and recognition. So money can be a temporary symbol for one of these things, but it doesn't fulfill the need out of itself. It also means that whatever motivation someone gets from a bonus or reward, it fades quickly and can just as well be achieved by other, cheaper means.

As for self-actualisation, this has nothing to do with money - it's about pursuing your talent and being creative. Money can be a means to self-actualisation, but it can't be the self-actualisation itself.

What that implies for worker motivation

People need more in their life than survival. Higher needs that are more subjective and harder to pin. Giving people money might make them feel better for a while because of the other needs it will allow them to fulfill. But it isn't enough to fulfill someone growth needs. Money will get a person out of bed in the morning because they need to pay the bills - but no amount of case will permanently turn someone into motivated, fulfilled person. However much you pay them.

Ben Ball: link

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