Question

You have worked as a sales representative for the last three years, and your boss has just quit. You have been asked to take over as manager of your region, and you are going to accept for two reasons. First, you would like to move up and try something different and more challenging. Second, you have been very disappointed with the way your prior manager ran your sales group. He was not a good people manager and he did very little to motivate the sales representatives. More speci?cally, he let the low performers slide by, while the top performers (which you feel you are) did not seem to be recognized for their contributions. The situation was not horrible; he was not abusive or hostile in any way. But you know the group has some talented people and could do much better--if only they had a motivational spark. So how would you proceed in this situation? Where would you start? What types of things would you do to enhance motivation? What would be the biggest obstacles to getting this group energized? Would there be any predictable traps to avoid?

Answer 1

When we come as a manager in such an enevironment the first thing we need to start is from the low performers. We need to motivate them by providing targets and incentives. This makes them come out of their shell and work for incentives. But the group which might be favourabe to the old manager can create problems for your steps and might initiate conflicts . These obstacles might try to stop us and we need to be careful . These steps helps us in identifying talented employees and encouraging them and this also helps in developing the company.