How To Motivate Your Employees

What motivates you to do a good job? Have you found that you are more productive when you are motivated? What about when you don’t want to tackle a project? What happens to your productivity?

We have all seen examples of highly-motivated people who outperform individuals with greater technical ability. We all want to be the type of leader who creates a motivating environment.

So how do leaders motivate people?

A common approach is to use rewards and incentives. While there is certainly a place for these external motivators, they rarely deliver long-term results.

To make a long-term impact, leaders need to tap internal motivation. Inner motivation is in play when you WANT TO do something without expecting a reward. Thanks to advances in neuroscience, we now know a lot about what’s going on in our brain when we’re motivated.

Tero’s theme this month is human motivation. We encourage you to read the excellent research-based article by Tero Research Consultant, Dr. Harwant Khush, titled Neuroscience Insights to Motivate Employees:

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