In a wide-ranging study of employee motivation, Harvard Business School professor T. Amabile and psychologist S. Kramer discovered that it’s not money, safety, security, or pressure that drives employees at work. It’s not the supposedly foundational needs in Maslow’s hierarchy.
The most important motivator for employees at work is what Amabile and Kramer call "the power of small wins": employees are highly productive and driven to do their best work when they feel as if they’re making progress every day toward a meaningful goal.
Managers thinking about employee motivation is fundamentally wrong. I say and practice with co-workers "do sweat the small stuff- it is all about the small stuff" ..."small is the new big" as " give is the new get" as "show is the new tell"!!
These principles are applicable in todays world of management in all disciplines. With strong focus on "development" you will have highly engaged employees and co-workers with “highlighted feeling autonomous and empowered, and a sense of responsibility and ownership belonging on/to their teams.”
Source W.Chen/CEO M.Kruysse/SOMMOS
There was once a man who had three sons. Much to fathers chagrin the boys shared little in common.
One day he asked them "bring me as many branches as you can carry".
The boys ran into the woods to gather branches and each came back with a bunch of branches. He said "take any one branch now and try to break it". That is easy the boys said and they broke their sticks in half. "Now bind all of them with a rope together and try to break them again"
They tried but the branches, that so easily could be broken separately, bound together were as strong as steel. "You see" their father said, "what you do with these poles can also happen to us. If you only look at yourself, you are vulnerable and you stand alone. Together we are strong and what applies to the poles, also applies to us".
