What performance do you as an employer expect from your employees? What is performance? Some performance is objective, the flight arrived on time, did not arrive on time. Others are subjective, behavior and how to handle unmotivated employees. In order to have optimal performance, what factors must be involved? A performance equation can help you understand it.
This video, by and based on Daniel Pink’s excellent book, Drive, provided me with confirmation about what I had always believed about motivation and gave me some insights about an issue I faced early in my career.
Have a watch.
A florist needs to care for his or her plants to make a living. Think of flowers as a florists employees. You yourself most likely have flowers, if not at home you might have it at your workplace. Having flowers that don’t dry up requires you to give them nutrition, and not forgetting it e.g. assign a bad system of care for your plants.
This famous quote from the author of the 7 habits of highly effective people sums it up:
“If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.” — Stephen Covey
