These few steps are just the beginning.  There are many ways to motivate and turn your teams productivity knob to high.  The first thing you need to do is to define what motivational factors currently are in play in your organization, both extrinsic and intrinsic.  You will be surprised how much information your management team already knows once this concept is explained in detail.  They will come up with a long list of extrinsic motivation concepts, but will have great difficulty in even defining intrinsic motivation.

So, here it is in a nutshell.

You must constantly catch 'em doing something right and tell 'em when caught!

It does not cost money to treat people right and cultivate intrinsic motivation. 

When it comes down to it, intrinsic motivation is all about improving your bottom line.

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