An exercise in Management: Motivation

[Doc Holiday]

Today I had probably one of my better moment in Management, I achieved the perfect motivational prep talk.

 

To set this up I must start from the beginning, this morning at work I was given a project to take care of that was to be finished by end of business Day, it was a soft deadline not a hard one, but was preferred that it was done that day. I was given as assistance in finishing the project the youngest employee(19) at the company with already a reputation for being quit the slacker as help to finish this project.

 

Upon realizing that I was having this person as my assistant for the project I was quit unpleased, because I knew what would happen next, general laziness and going through the motions, he seemed to put little effort or thought into the task at hand.  after dealing with this for nearly 2 hours in the morning and nearly snapping at him once, but thought of the fact I discovered through own person experience that chewing someone out can have quit the demotivating effect, and I wanted this project done today. so I thought: "how can I motivate this kid so that he would want to help me get this project finished in a timely manner?", and then it hit me, everyone wants a better job!

 

This Kid needless to say because of his age was at the bottom of the food chain as far as workers for the company goes, but He knew that 1, I'm in a management position and 2, I'm respected by both upper management and piers for getting the job done.

 

I asked him does he want work the same low end low paying job for the rest of his life? which he replied: "of course not", I then in a fatherly "looking out for your best interest" way go into a 5 minute speech in order to move along and get a better Job and position he needs to grow a work ethic and become a self motivated person(not waiting to be told what to do), and all the benefits associated with that(a lot of stress was put into the benefits during the talk).

 

End result, He's motivated! I got him to not only work harder and smarter now, but he's also focused at the job at hand and wanting to get the job done. and I get the project done on time looking good.  I've probably been working at one level of Management or another for 6 years now, dealing with various amounts of underlings and had various issues before, this is just one of the few times that It got the exact perfect end result that was desired.

 

 

So let me ask you this, ever had to do any Motivational talks before? did you get good results or bad, what has seemed to work for you and what hasn't?

[Kevin Greene]

Well now you need to get the fugger a promotion/raise/hooker....something.

[Doc Holiday]

Well now you need to get the fugger a promotion/raise/hooker....something.

i gave him a faults sense of accomplishment.

[Bob NC]

That type of motivation with nothing as a short term reward usually works once, maybe twice.

 

No going to the well time after time with that one.

[Doc Holiday]

That type of motivation with nothing as a short term reward usually works once, maybe twice.

No going to the well time after time with that one.

maybe so, but that was the first time I had him working for me

[pstall]

You work with Piers Morgan?