subject: How To Motivate Others And Be The Department Of The Month [print this page] There is this ongoing competition between departments when it comes to work performance. Yes, they should be all geared towards one goal which is the company's over-all growth but you simply cannot minus the fact that all these people were born competitive.
There are ways on how to motivate others but you have to make sure that they do not go overboard into thinking that it is for a certain contest your department has cooked just to be the well-known team in the whole company. Usually it is and it should be the role of the Human Resources Department to come up with way on how to motivate others.
Did you know that when you bank on the Recognition Strategy, you could kick up a storm within your group? The Recognition Strategy is to give proper credit to those people who have gone beyond their job responsibilities in order to help other co-workers. Some call it Rewards Nights wherein there will be tokens of appreciation like a simple mug, free lunch or even a free pen for those who have exerted extra efforts.
Surely you would think that it is a no big deal but have you ever given some thought that when you recognize these small things that they have done in front of an audience, it would seem as if they won the lottery.
The way on how to motivate others may be a simple as that since your team members would remember these small deeds all the more.