Goal achievement as an effective Motivational tool

Do you use goal setting to motivate your employees? 

To continue profitable operation every business organization has its own organizational goal/s that it wants to achieve and infuse inside the psyche of its employees. This is done as often as possible to inspire the employees.

The best method to achieve the goal is by presenting data that would clearly show what the organization wants to achieve for a specific time period. For example a sales or manufacturing business would usually present goals (thru figures). That it needs to achieve for a specific time period, this will now therefore serve as the Motivational tool.

The question now is how you can make this a reality and not just a goal on paper that could easily be forgotten by employees.

Here are the following steps that you may want to use to ensure the achievement of the goal:

1. Always remind your employees about it as often as possible.

2. Offer your wholehearted support logistical, moral and financial. (Your constant reminder is useless without your support.)

3. Check on the progress of the goal periodically.

4. Update them on the progress of the goal.

5. Always have an open line of communication.

6. Repeat steps One to five as needed. - Marino J. Dasmarinas

On egocentric Leaders and Managers

Are we very particular with our reputation and our standing in the organization? For example when we are introduced during programs or meetings, do we always want our important personal background to be mentioned along with it?

There are managers/leaders that are very much particular about their standing in their organization. For example a hard working former rank and file employee is promoted to a middle level managerial position. 

Suddenly, there is change on his job title and his peers thought that it was only the change on his job title that would be affected. They hoped that there would be no change on his part as far as his behavior towards them is concerned.

However they noticed that his change of job status has gone up to his head: from a very friendly peer he suddenly became detached from them. He chose to transfer to a roomy place in the office that isolates him from his former peers. He now suddenly wants them to address him as sir rather than his nickname, just like when he was still one of them. In short, this man who was suddenly promoted became egocentric; the sudden change of job status went to his head instead of going to his heart.

There are some of us who behave like this newly promoted person, we become self-centered by the sudden change in our job status/title. We suddenly want respect which is not bad, but we must not overly concern ourselves with this sudden appendage in our job status for the reason that it will detach us from our peers and subordinates.

 Thus, it will surely affect our image as a member of our organization. From a team player we unknowingly might become a dictator or an autocratic manager/leader which is actually a very bad behavior for a manager/leader to have.

It will not do us any good if we become egocentric. We need not worry if we want respect because it will come the moment we know how to respect our peers and subordinates. As they say: Respect begets respect. Our co-workers will respect us the moment we respect them immaterial of their position.

So this question comes up: Does it pay to be overly egocentric about your status in your organization?

No it doesn’t pay! We must always remain humble and a team player. Job position/title is simply a name that is given to us, we must not allow ourselves to become swell-headed because of it. We must always remain humble and simple no matter how high we go up in the organizational hierarchy. - Marino J. Dasmarinas

The importance of Job orientation and Role definition

Do you properly orient your newly hired employees or you immediately brief them with the job that they are going to handle in your organization?

Upon employment in an organization the first agenda for the newly hired employee is to familiarize him with the critical role that he is going to take part in the organization. This is usually facilitated by means of a clearly defined job description and thru job orientation.

It is important for an organization to orient the newly hired employee about the limits as well as the whole scope of his role. Yet, this is sometimes inadvertently forgotten by management. So when there’s an inadvertence the employee is suddenly given a job that he was not expecting to do for the reason that he was not properly oriented or told about it.

Unknown to management this pieces of inadvertence creates dissatisfaction within the newly hired employee and it slowly shows on his job performance. Eventually his motivation to do his job well suffer until such time that he drifts away from his job.

To avoid role ambiguity and demotivation management must early on be cognizant of the importance of properly orienting their workforce about the roles that they are supposed to do in the organization. If there shall be some more workload to be assigned it will not do us harm if we will bother to orient them about it.

Let us be aware of the importance of clearly defining the roles of our workforce and let us not carelessly assign them workload without competently orienting them. - Marino J. Dasmarinas