Staff Motivation Tip

by In: Leadership | Published: Jan 24, 2010

I’ll be the first to admit I’m really awful when it comes to think­ing of moti­va­tion tools. I don’t think my staff lacks moti­va­tion, but every­one could use a lit­tle extra.

That’s why I decided to spend a lit­tle time this evening Googling “staff moti­va­tion.” Noth­ing of value appeared. It was the same old stuff I’ve found in my stack of man­age­ment books.

But, I finally found some­thing that will hope­fully pro­vide some good insight. I went to Poyn­ter and searched “moti­va­tion.” I found a “Work Sat­is­fac­tion Sur­vey” posted by Jill Geisler.

There’s a PDF on her post so I printed out copies for every one of my sec­tion edi­tors, put it in their mail­boxes and sent them an e-mail explain­ing why I put it in there and ask­ing for a quick return.

For those of you who are sec­tion edi­tors, I’m sure it would be just as effec­tive for reporters, pho­tog­ra­phers, design­ers, video­g­ra­phers, etc.

Here’s the post with the PDF: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=34&aid=14027

Good luck and let me know if you decide to use it, what feed­back it gen­er­ates, etc. I’m curi­ous to know!

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3 Responses

  1. Kelsey Schnell says:
    January 24, 2010 at 11:47 pm

    Great topic!

    I think you’re right. Main­tain­ing moti­va­tion is tough. Not to men­tion, it can seem insin­cere when a peer is try­ing to do the motivating.

    This seems like a good oppor­tu­nity for staff mem­bers to moti­vate them­selves. I’m look­ing for­ward to using it.

    Thanks.

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