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How to motivate subordinates through praise? Even if he's just a part-time employee?

Whether part-time or regular employees, as long as they are human, they are respected

By liangjiajiaPublished about a year ago 6 min read
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First of all, people, whether part-time or regular, have a need to be respected, listened to and motivated. There are three kinds of incentives: carrot, stick and motivation. If you are interested, please refer to the "Perfect motivation" module in the "Ordinary Leadership" column on the Leadership Book Club APP platform. For example: The second promotion - How to eLeaders should give timely recognition and praise to their subordinates for their achievements, which is in line with the requirements of the incentive principle in management. Appropriate praise can make subordinates more deeply understand the instructions of superiors, and through the satisfaction of their sense of achievement, make them more believe in their own ability, and can stimulate the healthy competition among subordinates, create a positive working atmosphere. However, it is not always easy to say gooThe famous American psychologist William James said, "One of the deepest desires of human nature is to be admired, admired, respected." The desire for affirmation is a basic desire in every human heart. Therefore, when we live in the society, if we want to form a kind of friendly and harmonious atmosphere around ourselves, we should try to find the value of others, and try to tell each other, this is also the meaning of affirming others. It is for this purpose that subordinates are praised in due course. It iA manager worked hard to win over a group of new customers in his area and achieved great success. However, at the same time, a group of old customers were slipping away without his attention. When the general manager learned this, he called him into his office and said, "××, you have been doing well recently. You have made a great expansion in your business. The number of customers is increasing rapidly. The manager was pleased and immediately expressed his determination to do a better job. At this time, the general manager lost no time to put forward: "By the way, there is one thing I want you to pay attention to, there is a group of old customers have little contact with the company recently, I do not know the reason." The manager immediately promised to look into it and accepted the task with great pleasure. This kind of praise keeps the subordinates motivated and pressured to finish their work. 4. Pay attention to skills, various ways of any kind of expression, if the same, or too direct, often produce negative effects. The same goes for praise, which can't be a "you did a good job" cliche forever. Sometimes the same meaning in a different way, often produce a completely different effect. Here are some basic ways to compliment. (1) Contrasting praise. It is to compare the object of praise with other objects in order to highlight its merits. It gives a very specific feeling. "There is a comparison to identify," is to explain this truth. But also because of this, from another point of view, it will have a negative effect, which is easy to cause interpersonal contradictions, so in comparison, do not apply the belittling instead of praise. For example, two students each hold one of their own paintings for the teacher to judge. If the teacher says to A, "Your painting is not as good as his." B may be more proud, and A must not be happy, it is better to say to B: "You paint better than him." B is happy, but A is not too disappointed. (2) judgmental praise. Is to give a summative good evaluation of the praised, the tone should be expressed in the form of positive judgment. In fact, acknowledging someone else's work is a form of praise. However, this kind of praise is a comprehensive and summative evaluation, so it is easy to abstract, and the leader will give people a feeling of superiority, so it is generally used in combination with other methods. (3) Receptive praise. It's when the leader expresses good feelings about a certain point. Because he is only expressing the feeling of praise and is not subject to any other conditions, this form can give full play to the advantages of praise. There are two steps to implement this kind of praise: one is to "pick out" the merits of the person praised; The second is to let the person know that you are satisfied with his or her merits. In this way, the effect of praise is natural and convincing.s worth noting that this kind of praise and praise is only from the heart of the sincere words, in order to play the greatest effect. Hypocrisy and euphemism, to use some praise words, inevitably have a negative effect. However, in real life, some leaders tend to have an extremely subtle and even dark attitude towards the excellent achievements and talents of their subordinates. For example, they are afraid that excellent subordinates will endanger their own status, and they lack tolerance to the shortcomings of their subordinates who disagree with them and refuse to acknowledge their achievements. Or underestimate the abilities of your subordinates and find it hard to accept their accomplishments as surprising. There is an old saying that goes, "There is no sound, no color." It is gratifying to celebrate the achievements of subordinates, but simply emphasizing the achievements often fails to promote the role of understanding, and may also breed subordinates' complacency. As a matter of fact, any strength is connected with some weakness, and absolute affirmation is as harmful as absolute negation. The more a leader can identify the strengths and weaknesses of his subordinates in places that are not easily perceived by ordinary people, the higher his authority and trustworthiness will be. However, giving appropriate opinions at the same time of praise will not only make subordinates easier to accept psychologically, but also make the words of praise appear rigid and soft.d things. It is quite difficult to say good things artistically, but there are some basic principles worth studying and learning from. When subordinates accomplish their goals and make achievements in their work, they should certainly be given appropriate recognition and praise, but how to control the degree should be considered. If we improperly overestimate the subordinates' achievements, artificially give the achievements themselves do not have the meaning, and even vulgar praise, it will produce a series of negative effects; It will make the subordinates who are affirmed and praised have a blind narcissistic mood, thinking that the achievement really has so high significance and value, which damages the development intention of diligent governance; Other subordinates will be dissatisfied. For the artificially set up false template, colleagues will be unconvinced to suspicion, and then have a sense of disgust, not only can not play an exemplary role, but affect the unity between subordinates; Will make the middle of the lower breed not pragmatic, the unhealthy atmosphere of vanity, when the lower see small achievements can also get high praise, will shake the down-to-earth, assiduously seek confidence, it is inevitable to produce grandiosity, fraud, for fame, credit for reward, so that originally as a means of incentive to praise alienation in the eyes of the lower purpose, its original meaning was greatly distorted. Therefore, the affirmation and praise of the inferior language, never use platitudes, arbitrary exaltation, "just do what Chen said" should be a basic requirement.ffectively motivate the post-90s employees? 12th Promotion - Effective motivation is the key to your career success; The 15th Promotion - How to use the Carrot effectively to motivate employees? 16th Promotion - How to effectively use the "Big Stick" to motivate employees? Promotions 17,23,24,32 - How to effectively use "motivate the inner motivation" to motivate employees? What you mentioned is part of the third type of motivation, which is to motivate employees' inner motivation. One of the suggested methods is: Step 1: Tell the truth first. Step 2: Tell what the good result of the fact is. Step 3: Give a review. For example, Xiao Wang, you worked overtime and gave me a report three days in advance, which gave me three more days to prepare. Moreover, some opinions in the report are very inspiring to me. I am really lucky to have such an excellent employee with strong executive ability in the team.

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