4 out of 5 employees are not motivated at work

Individuality kills the excitement: 



Four out of five employees are disengaged. One of these four is even hostilely disengaged. The manager can do something about it.

When work tasks are to be solved, it requires teamwork. The leader must ensure that the entire group succeeds through collaboration. However, the manager takes a myriad of individual considerations into account from recruitment, salary negotiations, review conversations and retention. These considerations are misunderstood and kill employees' commitment to collaboration.

Two Danish business consultants have mapped what goes wrong and what goes well when the manager stands up in front of the group of employees to engage them in the common cause.

Business consultants Mette Berner and Michael Meinhardt have taken their 15 years of course work as their starting point and have used all their experience to design a practical model for Strategic Motivation. 'The model means that motivation no longer happens spontaneously and randomly, but becomes part of a larger and long-term plan. The employees deserve it. It is significantly easier for managers. And then there is money right down to the bottom line.' - says Michael Meinhardt.

'We can see that the companies have a vague understanding of what motivation and commitment are. The manager is rarely measured by how committed the employees are. Employees are equally rarely measured on their commitment. And overall, the effort is not coordinated by a Motivation Manager.' - says Mette Berner. 'We have found what works in practice. The riddle is solved. Now managers can learn to generate, manage and maintain employee engagement.'

Michael Meinhardt says: 'We have developed a motivation model which consists of 7 motivational states. The manager can learn to use that model where commitment is created, - in the employee group.'

The analysis company Gallup concludes in their 'State of the Global Workplace Report' that 4 out of 5 employees are disengaged or hostilely disengaged.



Michael Meinhardt
LEADERSwarehouse.com 
☎ +45 71 92 55 63 ✉ info@LEADERSwarehouse.com

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