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3 Simple Ways Of Motivate Your Team

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3 Simple Ways to Motivate Your Team
By Alexandra Sleator | Submitted On August 01, 2012

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Expert Author Alexandra Sleator
During the London 2012 Olympics, star performers winning gold got a lot of attention but the Games also featured many collective events in which small and big teams compete. And so, in this article, I thought I would take a look at the dynamics of collective rather than individual performance and try to answer the question: "how can you as a manager get the best out of your team members?"

Let me say upfront that pay, praise and promotion do have some effect on motivation levels in the workplace but that a manager just using these P 's will run into deep-seated engagement issues.

My experience but also a lot of good literature on the topic have convinced me over time that there are indeed three primary levers a manager can play with to boost motivation and those are:

1. Providing meaningful job content and role purpose,

2. Making use of existing skills together with the opportunity to develop and learn, and

3. Granting autonomy at work.

Let 's look at them in turn:

1. Providing meaningful job content and role purpose

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