The Complete New Manager

46 Know What Drives People

Managers need to know what drives their employees. Do you?

For starters, if you put people in jobs where they can meet their individual needs while doing the work that’s important to the organization, you’ll have employees who are more motivated to perform at their best.

Managers have to make work a place where employees feel good about themselves and where the work people do helps them to feel good inside as well. When your employees come to work, they can’t turn off their human side, in other words, their human nature. Employees’ needs don’t shift when they walk through the workplace door. To get people to perform at high levels, you must plug into their human side, or their human nature, affirm them, and help them ...