Vicente E. Garcia's 6 Surefire Tips to Motivate Your Employees ASAP

With a dedicated and passionate set of employees, like the ones I - Vicente E. Garcia had at SAP and HP, you can easily make your business grow faster than you expect it to be. But through time, their enthusiasm might wear out because of the culture or the things happening in the office. If that happens, as the owner you should be the first one to fix this issue. But if your team is lately being unproductive and inefficient because of you, this might be a problem. The first thing you have to do is to empower them and change your behavior while at work. You must understand that you must motivate them and also change yourself. Here some ways to motivate your employees.

1.    Be an example
Employees won’t have the drive to work hard if they do not see you behave the way you want them to be at work. If they see you as a hardworking as you expect them to be, they will definitely be on their track also. Being a boss doesn’t have to be sitting around all day and making commands, you must be an example to let them know that you are working as hard as them.

2.    Give them clear instructions
Most employees just do the job that they are assigned for so do not give them vague instructions because they might get confused. You must give them clear instructions so that you know that you’ll have the exact result that you want. In this way also, employees know that they are doing the right thing on your given task.

10 Things That Bad Managers Do

I, Vicente E. Garcia, who worked for companies like SAP and HP, think that there are a lot of reasons why employees leave a company. Some leave because they wanted to explore jobs abroad while others leave to seek for a higher salary. The question we have now is…how can a company keep the good employees stay? Well, there’s something that we can work with- the attitude of the managers.

If you happen to have managers that possess these 10 things that bad managers do, you might want to consider talking to them and do some coaching. Keep in mind that it is always better to coach bad managers than let them ruin the lives of other employees.

1.    Bad managers blame others- there may be problems being encountered that were quite hard to handle, but if he is a good boss, he won’t point the blame to any of his subordinates. Instead of doing so, he will gather facts on the root cause of the problem and solve it with the team.

2.    Bad managers shout and yell- a good manager should always keep his composure. Some managers, instead of being calm, were the first to raise a voice when things don’t go their way or when their instructions were not followed correctly.