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With my 15 years of corporate exposure both as an employee and employer, I have grown to understand the value that comes from staff members when they are motivated. Whenever this term used to be mentioned, all I would start thinking of was that people wanted more money and more money. I had the mindset that it was hard to motivate an employee because my premise or foundation on the subject was based on a definition of motivation that was skewed towards a fraction of what motivation really is. A basic definition of motivation is the reason(s) behind someone’s actions or behavior. Sometimes the reasons are within the person, inside them (intrinsic motivation) while in a number of cases it is a result of what is done to the person (extrinsic motivation). A lot of theories exist behind the subject of motivation. One such theory I have grown to understand it the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs which shows the basic motivator as being the need for food and shelter going all the way up in a pyramid to other issues such as self actualization. Some theories do not close the pyramid to signify that you can never arrive at a place where you have full motivated someone. In this article I am giving you practical tools that work.
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