How To Motivate Staff

Time Management is rarely about time. It's about setting priorities.

If you can decide what is most important in every situation, who is most important, how it needs to be done and then do that thing first, you won't ever be left wondering what to do next.

But how do you choose which of the dominos needs to be knocked over first? By answering the WHY part of the equation. People are rarely helped to see WHY what they do is important. Without answering the WHY, they are unable to fully understand the HOW. When someone is muddy on WHY and HOW, WHAT seems impossible.

So before you penalize your entire team by forcing them into a generic Time Management session for the sake of one or two (which many managers do), ask yourself if your people fully comprehend the WHY of their jobs.

Don't leave staff motivation in the hands of some guy who delivers the same Time Management course to thousands of differing industries. If Time Management worked, there would only be one course and it would be mandatory for each person to take it in University and never have to take it again.

Time isn't the issue. It's an issue of having a basic understanding of why the job exists in the first place. Communication is your best motivator.

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