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Motivate your employees like Jack Welch I just returned from speaking to hospitality executives in Oslo and Amsterdam as par
Motivate your employees like Jack Welch I just returned from speaking to hospitality executives in Oslo and Amsterdam as par
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2012-01-23
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Motivate your employees like Jack Welch
I just returned from speaking to hospitality executives in Oslo and Amsterdam as part of my work as a communications coach. While preparing for the presentations, I asked the organizers about the biggest challenge facing hospitality managers in their countries. The answer was exactly what I hear from their U. S. counterparts: motivating employees to offer exceptional customer service. The challenge is universal across countries and industries. Fortunately, so is the solution.
Motivation starts with employee engagement, and engagement begins with effective communication skills. In my presentation to hotel and travel executives, I quoted Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric (GE) and current Business Week columnist, who once said: ’ No company, large or small, can succeed over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it. ’ Three key points in this quotation hold the secret to motivating employees: ’ energized employees’, ’ believe’ and ’ understand’.
Successful companies have energetic employees. Nothing energizes employees more than public recognition and praise for their accomplishments. Praise fills emotional tanks, giving your team the fuel to perform to its peak potential. Not too long ago a friend and her husband were treated to an all-expense-paid trip to Hawaii. She was one of the select few who made ’ President’s Club’ based on her high sales. She returned from the trip and started looking for a new job. Why? Her boss had failed to recognize her accomplishment publicly—first woman to make President’s Club in the company’s 18-year history. Yes, people want to be famous—especially in front of their Peers.
Successful companies have employees who believe in the mission. Intuit’s Scott Cook once told me: ’ People want more than a paycheck. They want to feel as though they are part of something bigger than themselves. ’ It’s up to you to articulate the mission and set the tone for the rest of your team. Ask yourself: ’What are we really selling?’ Are you selling insurance or ’ peace of mind?’ Are you selling computers or ’tools to unleash human creativity?’ Are you selling coffee, or in the words of Starbucks’ Howard Schultz, ’ a third place between work and home’? Successful missions have less to do with the physical product and more to do with how that product will improve the lives of your customers.
Successful companies have employees who understand how to achieve success. The CEO of Dominos Pizza India, Ajay Kaul, says the company’s mission must be simple enough to be understood by all 4,000 of his employees. Once it has been set, it’s up to you to communicate constantly how well the company is performing against the objective. If you’re genuine, passionate, and have a clear vision, it resonates with your employees and they will spare no efforts to accomplish the objective.
Don’t confuse employee motivation with price of admission to compete as a successful company. A company has to meet basic expectations to motivate top talent. In the U. S. , an employee expects two weeks vacation. In Europe, an employee expects five weeks. But while expectations might differ in countries and cultures, whether or not your own business will stand apart depends on the quality of your interaction with your employees and, in turn, how they engage with your customers.
What can we infer from the last paragraph?
选项
A、Employees around the world have the same expectations.
B、Good communication with the staff is crucial to a company’s success.
C、Customer recognition and loyalty will lead to stronger staff motivation.
D、A company can be sure of success if it meets the employees’ basic needs.
答案
B
解析
本题也可以用筛选法。首先排除A,因为段中明确指出不同国家和文化中的员工需求各不相同(expectations might differ in countries and cultures)。C项内容“Customer recognition and loyalty will lead to stronger staff motivation.”(顾客对企业品牌的认同和忠诚能够促进员工的工作积极性)没有在文中出现。D项的意思是“公司只要满足了员工的基本要求就一定会成功”,这样绝对化的说法肯定是不对的,而且也与本段第一句话(Don’t confuse employee motivation with price of admission to compete as a successful company.)不符。而B项的含义是“保持与员工的良好有效沟通对于公司的成功至关重要”,这既体现在本段最后一句中,也是本文的主旨,因此B为正确答案。
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