How to Motivate Your Staff

October 13th, 2005

The work praises the man. Irish Proverb

I was cleaning out a pile of magazines and came across this tip from Business 2.0 Dec. 2003. I thought it would be useful for some of my clients, so here it is:

“We wrote a program that asks every engineer what they did every week. it sends them e-mail on Monday, and concatenates the e-mails together in a document that everyone can read and it then sends that out to everyone….”

The article went on to indicate that those who do not publish activities are noticeably absent. The result is a running history that records what everyone did. The benefits are that: the “what gets measured gets managed” element comes into play; performance reviews are easier; it is a great accountability system; and if you are new to the company or the team, you can get a great overview of team activities in a short time.

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