Sunday, January 12, 2014

A Motivational tool called Positive Reinforcement


Do we care to commend the achievements of our employees?

There are Managers who do not care about the achievements of their employees. For reasons known only to themselves they just don’t care about it they let it pass without recognizing them. This inaction for an achievement is unacceptable for managers who desire to motivate their employees.

Positive reinforcement is an inexpensive but very effective motivational tool that is always available for leaders/managers. For example, if a leader/manager is aware that one of his employees is exceptionally performing in his/her job. It is but proper that the manager/leader positively reinforce this very good work behavior.  

If giving of written citation is not our type of positive reinforcement. A verbal commendation is also an option that we can use.  We have everything to gain and nothing to lose if we would care to recognize a deserving employee. We can just imagine the moral boost that it will create in our employees psyche.

There are many more inexpensive ways to positively reinforce an exceptional work accomplishment. We just need to be creative on how to do it, what is important is we always recognize a good work accomplishment/behavior.

This kind of motivational technique always has a positive effect on a worker’s behavior, just try it. - Marino J. Dasmarinas

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