Skip to main content

holding on to the best


Where have all the people gone?  Seems as though some carbon shaping anomaly stripped our workforce of skilled individuals. When you take into account service is not young workers "first choice", single digit unemployment, and a significant number of retiring workers, we have a trifecta of challenges facing our labor businesses.  Not to mention many of our workers seen to be progressively ratcheting up "over scale" pay.  We are between a rock and a hard place proclaims Overwhelmed Oscar, what should we do?



Many may be comfortable with contingent motivators, those narrowly designed areas of focus for employees.  While focus is good, when used to motivate it inhibits the power of the right side of your brain.  If you are motivating service personnel, responsible for creatively solving problems, you may consider switching to intrinsic motivation.  Focusing on this practice is straightforward, it requires effort towards; autonomy, mastery and purpose.



  • Autonomy | the urge to direct our own output
  • Mastery | consistently executing expertise
  • Purpose | the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves



Remaining competitive with escalating labor costs will continue to challenge organizations in the future. Aligning your worker compensation with your markets is essential; however, creating opportunities for individuals and teams to succeed will make you an employer of choice.



-----

Next post:  from the field to the office
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

In$pired

As the steam from Avid Andy's coffee fogged his glasses on this crisp January morning, he reflected on last year and thought enthusiastically about the year ahead.   Sometimes the noise of business is deafening, we rarely take the time to contemplate our moves, instead are often thrown one direction or another.   Hey, face it, if you are reading posts to gain perspective you fall in the group of folks who pride themselves as obsequious hoop-jumpers.   We live to help others and expect that all of those around us feel the same way.   I just love Influential Irene.   Okay, it is out in the open, she is an inspiration for me and so many others.   Irene reminds folks every year, without fail, these three statements which she fondly refers to as "the punchline" (although this is no joke).   Businesses, of any size, will be successful if they remember that it is people that make a company.   Put this advice into practice, today: Sincerity |...
Post a Comment
Read more

expert at everything...not a problem

Well... I would say sometimes there certainly is a perceived notion that one person is an expert at everything. For the worker "everything" may be defined as the specific area in which you were hired or are constantly scheduled. Our opinions are frequently influenced off of past experience, or information we've received from their coworkers. Unfortunately this only gives us partial insight to that workers expertise and often is limited to their most recent history. Narrowly focused accounting is made of the skills that this individual possess. Come on, can't we figure out a way to leverage all of the skills of a particular worker? One of the challenges has always been that relationship between the activities which need to be accomplished and the myriad skills of individuals within your workforce. In addition, even if you could inventory and get a pretty good handle on the skill sets, they are constantly changing (with any luck) and thus the ineffective process of ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Single Point of Entry

Cloud platforms, with all of their interconnected tools and functions, are perceived by some as overwhelming.  Sure change is hard, yet it meets considerable resistance when the worker must deal with too many factors, such as: their anxiety related to computing having too many choices Both of these, along with many others not mentioned, make it too easy to revert back to comfortable habits.  This is the reason that so many organizations stop at email and file management on their transformation journey.  One solution to be considered is allowing the workers to get comfortable with a single point of entry (SPoE).  That is a single application that can serve as the launching pad for all digital tools.   A well executed SPoE provides value for the office and remote workers alike.  Imagine that you had just one business application, a single place that you would travel to and jump in to meaningful digital tools.  Sound familiar?  Sure, f...
Post a Comment
Read more