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How NOT to Motivate Your Employees

Everyone knows that keeping your employees motivated is crucial to growing a startup. However, the best way to accomplish this remains a topic of some debate. There are multiple schools of thought on the subject, each with its own record of successes and failures.  However, in my experience, it’s not what you do to motivate your employees that matters so much as what you make sure to avoid doing.

Employee motivation, however you choose to address it, is kind of delicate. If you try too hard or too little, then you might find yourself distracting your employees rather than engaging them. For instance, here are some common motivation mistakes that could easily sabotage your company’s productivity.

Motivating your employees isn’t rocket science, even though it may seem that way at times. You can increase engagement in all sorts of ways, so long as it keeps your employees feeling recognized and appreciated. Just make sure to break these bad managerial habits now, or else they might become a problem in the future.

Photo Courtesy: Lance Trebesch

This guest post is courtesy Lance Trebesch. He is the CEO of TicketPrinting.com & Ticket River, which offer a variety of event products and ticketing services. After working for nineteen years in Silicon Valley, Lance found that the key to happiness is helping customers worldwide beautify and monetize their events with brilliant print products and event services. Listening to his customers and learning about how they plan their events – which range from concerts to fundraisers – has helped him gain insight and expertise that he is always eager to share.

Featured image courtesy of Stuart Miles / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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