Benefiting from ‘Positive Peer Pressure’
Loyal employees stay with you long-term based mostly on emotional factors.
motivation
Adding an ‘Employee Efficiency Bonus’
Steve explains how “sharing the pain” (AND the profits) can hold your employees “accountable” while also helping them strive for perfection.
PAYOFF: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations
This book tackles the ever elusive subject of our motivation. What motivates people? How can an owner motivate his technicians to greater things?
How to increase your employee’s self esteem
Few people are (initially) excited and proud to be hired as a cleaning and/or restoration technician.
‘Publicly Praising’ your workers is also GREAT marketing!
Steve explains how to leverage your employee rewards for excellent marketing opportunities.
Why (and how) to reward your staff with employee recognition
Employees are a must for a full size business. How to keep them motivated? Employee recognition is more than just extra pay …
How to overcome commercial inertia …
Let’s focus on commercial inertia with property and facility managers! (And insurance adjusters too.)
Focus on positive accountability with your employees
Positive Accountability implies recognizing and celebrating the positive achievements your technicians make. Steve gives three examples.
Motivate employees with more than “just a pay check”
Employees apply for a job because they need a paycheck. Motivate employees to stay and prosper for these reasons.
Can I (should I?) start a restoration company again?
Should this restorer start a restoration company of his own? There are no easy answers. Steve invites all cleaners and restorers to first establish goals.
How can I reward productive employees?
Careful, calculated compensation plans can reward productive employees. Steve offers practical considerations for residential cleaners before diving in.
How to give “public recognition”
Improve your worker’s sense of self worth and you will create long term employees who love their job.
Never give in! – Part 1
How to work through adversity and stay on the path to success and sustained growth
Start With Why by Simon Sinek
Start With Why has its own simple philosophy “people don’t buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it.”
Business Bullies – Part 4
The boss doesn’t have to flaunt her authority by threatening people and the business owner certainly shouldn’t try to bully someone into higher performance.