Employee Motivators

Did I lose you with all of those scenarios? Welcome to the brain of an INTJ (my Myers-Briggs psychological profile, which stands for introversion, intuition, thinking, judgment). Let me simplify.

I think a good manager reaches ten out of ten every day. Anything less is failure in my eyes. It just takes a little DATA and INSIGHT to figure out what a person’s motivators really are. If I am able to give each employee what they need when they need it, then their engagement levels rise, and they become happy and highly productive employees. Oh, and turnover goes down, which helps long term business goals be more easily reached.

How do I know this? In my 20+ years of managing people, I have never had a single employee leave for voluntary reasons (minus one employee who decided to go back to school to get her Ph.D., which I fully supported and suggested). I’m a sample of one manager, but I’ve had 30+ direct reports in those 20+ years. 30+ employees...