1. Harvard ManageMentor®
Motivating Employees to Excel

2. Discussion Topics
Identifying what motivates each of your direct reports
Using internal motivational tools
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3. What Motivates Each of Your Direct Reports?
What techniques have you used to discover each of your employees’ unique motivators?
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4. Using Internal Motivational Tools
How have you used your knowledge of what motivates a particular employee to help motivate them?
With a partner, share responses to the How Well Are You Maintaining Motivation? checklist in the Worksheet for Keeping People Motivated.
With the same partner, share ideas for how you could use internal motivators with your team.
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5. Next Steps Implement your new ideas for motivating your employees.
Discover individual employees’ motivators.
Give employees tasks that satisfy their motivators.
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