Business Training Courses

Progressive Training offer a wide range of Business Training Courses to companies throughout Ireland. These courses cover everything from Management Training to Sales training and having highly motivated staff is an important aspect of running a business today.

Staff Motivation is all about having the right people in a well organised process is useless if those people don’t work hard and expend effort to achieve the goals and objectives of the work group. It is part of the manager’s role to ensure, as far as possible, that staff are willing to put in this effort – that they are motivated.

Getting this effort from your staff requires you to:

• Understand how motivation works.
• Be aware of what motivates each member of your staff.

Identify the ways in which you can contribute to their motivation. Motivation is the extent to which people apply effort to achieve goals so that their needs can be satisfied. Needs are complex and can be satisfied both inside and outside the workplace.

Needs also tend to be very individualistic. The glib answer to the question “Why do you work?” is “I work for the money”, but this is a very crude and incomplete explanation for why people work.

Money is undeniably an important factor in influencing a person’s motivation. Not only does it provide the means of satisfying many material needs but it is also a symbol of achievement and recognition. It is, however, wrong to overstate the role of money as a motivator, particularly when financial rewards are not directly related to performance and achievement.

In many situations money does get people to work but does not necessarily get people to work harder. Motivation has only been seriously studied during this century. Up to then, it was assumed that threat of starvation and meagre rewards were sufficient to keep workers motivated.