Motivational Management: Inspiring Your People for Maximum Performance

Creating Your Own Feedback System

The purpose of this book is to help you learn to manage for maximum motivation—and not just any old motivation, but intrinsic motivation, the kind that comes from within. In Exercise 1-1 in Chapter 1, you explored the characteristics of your ideal employee, someone with initiative, commitment, dedication, and drive, someone who does good work and does the right thing—often without your having to tell him or her what to do. This exercise creates a portrait of a highly motivated employee. It demonstrates the important point that motivational management can and should produce observable differences in employees. If it is working, this approach to management should produce employees who have visible levels of motivation. ...