Motivation
My motivation at my last job was low. Before being laid off I was a business manager for an auto roadside service company. I began to work there shortly after I graduated college and started off in the call center. Soon I found myself rapidly climbing my way up the corporate ladder. I moved from a call center rep position to a billing rep, an auditing rep, a Vims coordinator and finally as a business manager all within 8 years of working there. I was pretty much kept motivated for the most part in doing my job in each of my positions.
However during my last two years when I was manager, a slow drop began concerning my enthusiasm. In my previous roles, with my previous bosses that I was under, they followed 3 main standards that the company liked to instill for motivation. The first being praised. When ever I did an exceptionally well job, my supervisors made it a point to say what good work I was performing and to keep it up. This made me feel that my superiors were noticing the effects of the extra work I was putting into my job. Second was acknowledgement. Sometimes my supervisor’s boss would actually come around my department to see how I was doing. By performing this small deed and taking the time to talk to me, it certainly made me feel that I was really a part of the company overall. Such actions kept me motivated in getting the best results from my work since I felt as if I was having more on an impact on the company as a whole. Lastly there were rewards. These came about in a number of different ways. Some were set up through an employee of the month award, while others were simply established by having a company BBQ, special snacks, or extra bonuses.
Yet I found that none of these aspects came to be for my motivations as manager. When promoted to the role in order to help build a new department to handle expanding business, I set out to enthusiastically execute my duties to an even higher level of quality then usual. It...
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