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Post by darnette on May 4, 2014 22:13:06 GMT -6
This is a very true video. Money is a motivator and everyone knows that by now. In certain job fields, the incentives of more money is a good idea and produces higher performances. But that incentive doesn't always work. In the Army, I was part of an human intelligence collection team. The teams were challenged to produce more reports in order to provide more information and reports as a whole. However, the incentive was time off, gifts, and other things. In the end, there were numerous reports produced by the winning team, however, the reports were of limited to no intelligence value to those receiving the information. The winning team admitted to produced smaller, less informative reports, just to get their numbers up.
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Post by brittanycompton on May 5, 2014 15:55:51 GMT -6
I think motivation is very important when you are a business owner or manager. Without motivation employees don't want to do their jobs and company will not grow positive. This video definitely pointed some key ideas in motivation. I like the idea of how talked about people that are given reward that's not always the correct way of trying to motivate people. I want to take his idea on depending on the task that some does should result in different time of motivators. people can be very lazy and not do the the right things at work and its sad that money is almost the only thing that motivates them. I think the idea that the australian company uses is giving people an opportunity to let employees doing tings there way for the last part of the day so they feel powered into accomplishing something a positive way that benefits them and the company with out motivating with money
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Post by robertnicholson on May 6, 2014 11:41:36 GMT -6
When you’re in a business, you’re going to face obstacles. The best thing that you can do is just work through this obstacles and work as a team. Life in unpredictable so you just need accept that there will be problem that you’ll have to face sometimes so you’ll just have to solve them to the best of your ability.
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Post by jjohnson on May 6, 2014 18:45:30 GMT -6
This makes sense to me. Physical tasks are easily obtainable because you can push yourself physically, but intellectual tasks require mental performance. When you push yourself mentally I believe you can stress yourself out so much that you overthink the issue and do much more than what is required; this leads to inaccurate outcomes. I am guilty of this and definitely need to work on it. All in all, when stress is involved the outcomes can be hindered.
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Post by jimmykotter on May 6, 2014 21:15:29 GMT -6
pull your intellectual teaching head never worked in the real world out of your butt. its so much half truth mixed with absolute falsities maybe you'll get a small sense of understanding but this dude is very off. when you take an average sample you'll get an average result. when you take the best it is different what will motivate the best of the best vs the average man. there are fewer of the high performers so it may seem that they are outliers and maybe ignored but they are the bill gates and Steve jobs of humans.
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Post by asanchez on May 6, 2014 23:47:10 GMT -6
This video is interesting because it says monetary rewards actually caused people to be less likely to perform cognitively. This is kind of interesting because it seems counterintuitive. I definitely agree that if you pay your employees enough, and not use it as a reward, they are very much more likely to provide the best service for you. Self direction is always best and this is best accomplished by companies that pay their employees a good wage. I don't know if I would go as far to say that I would think purpose motivators are as good as monitory, but I do like the general idea of this video.
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Post by Shondrea Lovette on May 7, 2014 21:14:18 GMT -6
This video explain the motive of why people do what they do. People work hard because of incentives or rewards they receive for hard work they have completed. For example people at the end of the week are expecting to be rewarded for there hard work by receiving a weekly paycheck or bi-weekly pay checks. I often noticed that people perform better when there are incentives involved in there work.
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Post by susiekaz on May 7, 2014 21:38:09 GMT -6
Today's employment world is a totally different one than that of 5 years ago. You can see this everywhere from the use of organic foods to the increase in so many non-profits. Employees don't want to be motivated by money anymore. They want to feel appreciated, autonomous and like they have a purpose. I thought of something when the speaker encouraged employers to pay their employees enough of a salary so they won't be thinking of money but rather the jobs they need to do. This idea reminder me of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Until people have their survival and safety needs met (salary) they can not move on to the higher needs like relationships and commitment. Managers have to keep this idea in mind while trying to motivate their employees.
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Post by kourtneyb on May 7, 2014 21:59:34 GMT -6
It's interesting to hear how the human mind works. It is very true that people will work harder when they are working towards something opposed to having already received it. I think that many people have learned that the hard way in many cases. For instance if you are dealing with a contractor it is a rule of thumb to not over pay them prior to the job and to not fully pay them prior to completion of that job because you may live to regret it later. It's odd to think this also occurs in the business world because you would expect these individuals to keep their end of the deal a little more however in today's society a written or verbal agreement means less and less.
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Post by halearnold on May 8, 2014 13:53:45 GMT -6
Money and prizes are not the only motivators is not surprising. But the individualism and self worth and feeling of a worthwhile project. There is something to be said for the work life balance and the pride in accomplishment when it comes to anything we do. I like working on some of the projects that I have been fortunate to be part of, because it can last for decades and long after I am gone. That is a good feeling.
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Post by briandavis1 on May 8, 2014 14:00:07 GMT -6
Reward is a kind or incentive to make employees work more or go extract mile. I think it is easier to compensate employees according to their accomplishments.
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Post by asmith422 on May 8, 2014 15:57:11 GMT -6
I was surprised to hear that motivating people too actually causes people to do worse in their performance. You would think that rewarding someone with a large sum of money would make people want to work even harder but in actuality that incentive causes them to perform poorly. Rewarding people for smaller tasks rather than one large one will end up making them more productive.
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Post by Rosie on May 8, 2014 16:04:42 GMT -6
Everyone has different thing that motivate them. For me, my motivations and inspirations stem from many different places. I want to do well not only to prove to myself that i can do it, but to show my family that I appreciate everything they've done and raised a smart, level-headed woman. I think everyone should be motivated to do well because they personally want to. Your own life should be the number one reason that you want to be successful.
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Post by shantel on May 8, 2014 19:42:17 GMT -6
I think that this is very reasonable perspective to look at motivation. I think motivations can be tricky since everyone has different needs and a since of security. It didn't surprise me in the video that people performance drop after getting paid more. Studies show after athletes sign there contract that their performance drops. I think once anyone is satisfy with one thing then you have to find a different motivator.
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Post by godwesso on May 9, 2014 12:56:29 GMT -6
RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
This video was very direct and filled with a sincere perspective. It provided an insightful view of how people can motivated through certain incentives. Money can always be a motivating factor, but if the job is too great then the offer is almost counter-productive. This video was very insightful.
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