The Management Guide to Motivating; The Pocket Manager

by Kate Keenan

• ISBN13: 9781902825779
• ISBN10: 1902825772
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Oval Books

Summary

A book for people who would like to manage themselves, their time, and their business better, but are too busy to begin.

Author Biography

Kate Keenan is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with degrees in affiliated subjects (B.Sc., M.Phil.) and a number of qualifications in others.

She founded Keenan Research, an industrial psychology consultancy, in 1978. The work of the consultancy is fundamentally concerned with helping people to achieve their potential and make a better job of their management.

By devising work programmes for companies she enables them to target and remedy their managerial problems - from personnel selection and individual assessment to team building and attitude surveys. She believes in giving priority to training the managers to institute their own programmes, so that their company resources are developed and expanded.

Having long believed the key to successful motivatioin is about being positive and encouraging others, she admits to finding it something of an effort to remain constantly motivated herself. She is rewarded by the fact that no-one else seems to suspect that any effort is required.

Table of Contents

Motivating	p. 5
The Need for Motivation	p. 6
Understanding Basic Needs	p. 14
Designing the Work	p. 21
Inspiring Performance	p. 31
Maintaining Motivation	p. 39
Your Attitude to Motivating	p. 49
Check List for Motivating	p. 56
The Benefits of Motivating	p. 58
Glossary	p. 59
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Excerpts

Creating opportunities
Motivating people means understanding what drives and stimulates people to work well. It is achieved through a combination of understanding their individual needs and creating the opportunities for them to want to work well.

Spot the signs
Recognising that people are not motivated is not as simple as it sounds. They do not always tell you how they are feeling or admit that they are dissatisfied.

Demoralised
Demotivation is insidious. It is like having toothache: not life-threatening but debilitating.

Supply and demand
If people cannot get what they want, such as the ability to develop their skills, they will demand more of what they can get. Hence, the demand for more money may be hiding a desire for a more challenging job, or a hankering for perks may be masking a need to be appreciated.

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