Job Seeking TipsBy Millennium Personnel Corp.

When you’re a manager or supervisor of lets say, a dozen employees, its part of your job to keep them motivated. There are two major kinds of motivation. There is positive motivation and negative motivation. The quality of work an employee puts into their projects depends on how these two motivations are used.
Giving positive motivation will almost always give excellent results. I say almost always because there will always be one person who will never be motivated enough. Aside from that, there are many ways to positively motivate your employees. One way is through contest with prizes and awards. First off, the contest itself will make the employees compete against each other. This is not a bad thing. This will cause the employees to create better results than the others. Since there are prizes and awards, this creates an incentive. Employees like to show their accomplishments and prizes and awards represents those accomplishments. An even better idea is to have employees work in groups during the contest. This will not only generate better results but it may create better and ingenious ideas for your company.
Another way to motivate is to have an “Employee of the year” awards. This will make an employee feel valued and respected. This employee of the year will also serve as a model employee for the others.
Then there is the negative motivation. These kinds of motivation will not generate any kind of special result. When used on an employee, they will only focus on finishing the work on time instead of focusing on the quality of work. Usually negative motivation is no motivation. It’s when an employee is allowed to be lazy or consistently late with turning in projects. In some cases, these late projects don’t even look great. The reason why they don’t look great is because they were only focused on getting it done. They didn’t have a reason to care for its quality. Another kind of negative motivation is a disgruntled employee. If one employee isn’t happy, he/she will bring down everyone’s mood. A negative motivation also means a lack of motivation. If there is a lack of motivation, it means there is no incentive. Employees like to have incentive. In general, we all like to win something in any type of setting.
I had to deal with trying to motivate kids at my former tutoring job. One of the other tutors used candy as a positive motivation. Only the kids who finished their homework got a piece of candy. If they behaved, they got two. This motivation worked on the younger kids. I however was forced to use negative motivation. I had to work with older kids who were more defiant. They didn’t care for candy. If they wanted candy, they would have just taken it from me. If one of my kids started to act up, I would put them at a table by themselves with their back towards everyone. Their problem is that they get distracted easily because their friends are right next to them.
If they don’t get candy, its nothing lost, nothing gained on their part. This is why I’m forced to use negative motivation. Since they didn’t care about gaining anything, I made sure there was something to loose. This wasn’t anything personal. It was just business. Parents paid for their kids to be tutored.