Motivate,
Engage, and Energize Your Team
Che’ Evans,
instructor
Baltimore
City HR Department
July 20,
2017
The instructor, was enthusiastic and brought a great energy
to the discussion. She was happy to answer
specific questions and adapt the course to the needs and interests of the
participants.
The class started by discussed employee motivations and how
to create an environment that encourages employees to be engaged in their
work. Communication is definitely the
key to sharing expectations and clarifying what tasks are “do now” and which
can wait. We also learned that employees
can be working at a satisfactory level, but if they are not supported or even
worse are in the wrong job they will not improve their performance or be
motivated to expand their abilities.
One suggestion offered in class is to meet one-on-one with
each member of your team at least once a month to review progress and discuss
any problems. This doesn’t have to be a
long meeting, and shows the staf that you are interested in their growth. Another interesting ideas was to provide interim
performance evaluations with scores to staff having difficulties so that they
can track their progress from version to version, and review areas that need
improvement.
This was a very interesting class, and I highly recommend it for supervisors
and managers. It does seem to be
directed toward managers of larger groups, but those with smaller teams will still
get some good ideas to try with their staff.
Lisa R. Kenyon
Staff Development and Training
