Articles by Amanda Shore

Tell Your Employees They Suck

Improving Employee Performance Through Feedback My mother used to say, “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”   She was talking about being a polite person in society. She was not talking about being a manager whose company depended on her to manage employees for the success of their […]

Employee Engagement: Three Ways to Manage by Motivating

Motivation is what drives us to set and attain goals, it is our desire to do things. Motivation is fundamental to employee engagement. The goal of employee engagement is to get employees to expend discretionary effort and the best way to do that is with proper motivation. When you know how to motivate, you have […]

Engage Employees Through Personalized Motivation

The clamor of our alarm clocks forces us out of bed in the morning. But why did we set those alarms in the first place? Because we have to go to work. And why do we have to work? We are driven by what Abraham Maslow calls our biological and physiological needs. These include food, shelter, water, air, […]

Cooking Up A Better Company Culture

What is your company’s purpose? What are its values? What is it’s vision? Can all employees articulate the organization’s values and practices? If you need help answering these questions, follow this recipe for creating a successful company culture: 3-Step Recipe For Company Culture Serves small, medium and large sized companies Ingredients: Organizational values and practices Communication and adoption […]