Motivating a worker
How do you, as a leader/ manager/ supervisor, engage and motivate a worker?
The simple answer is you can't.
You can only motivate the worker externally, through giving rewards or punishments. But extrinsic motivation doesn't last, and is not sustainable over the long run. How much more rewards can you afford to offer before you feel the heat? How much more punishment can you mete out?
What needs to happen is the worker needs to be intrinsically motivated, that it, motivated internally. And this is often easier said than done. As a superior, all you can do is to provide a nurturing and supportive environment, and equip the worker with the necessary tools, and then get out of the way so he/ she can do the job. Hopefully, in the nurturing and supportive environment you have set up, the worker will find his/ her inherent strength from within, and be intrinsically motivated.
Long story short, the best and sustainable form of motivation is intrinsic.
How do you achieve that? Well, unfortunately there is no simple answers to that, a lot of academic articles, research and surveys have been done to see if we can uncover what exactly is the recipe to create/ foster intrinsic motivation.
Well, my advice, through my personal experiences...
1. Hire the right person
2. Make sure you can detect the genuine passion from the person
3. Create a nurturing and supportive environment
4. Equip the worker with the necessary tools
5. Empower the worker to do the job
6. Get the hell out of his/ her way!
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