{"id":115918,"date":"2023-10-29T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=115918"},"modified":"2023-11-02T13:12:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T17:12:29","slug":"how-to-develop-employees-to-their-full-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-develop-employees-to-their-full-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Develop Employees to Their Full Potential: Use Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you want your employees to perform at their best? How can you help employees advance in their positions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It goes without saying that an organization is nothing without the people who comprise it. The task of managers has always been to give those people direction, though the old style of top-down control is no longer always effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at how to develop employees to their full potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-developing-people\"><strong>Developing People<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll explain how Peter Drucker says the workforce has changed, how businesses may have to adapt, and how to develop employees to their full potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drucker is clear that <strong>managing <\/strong><strong><em>people <\/em><\/strong><strong>is different from managing <\/strong><strong><em>work<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong> The latter is focused on tasks and processes and relies on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/faulty-assumptions\/\">faulty assumption<\/a> that everyone who works for you is a subordinate who can\u2019t accomplish anything without direct supervision. However, we now live in an age in which we\u2019ve transitioned from a mostly unskilled workforce to one that\u2019s more educated than ever before. Therefore, instead of directing people like cogs in a machine, it\u2019s the role of modern management to help them grow their skills so that they can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/be-more-productive\/\">be more productive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: In <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-hard-thing-about-hard-things\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Hard Thing About Hard Things<\/em><\/a>, Ben Horowitz identifies <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-hard-thing-about-hard-things\/1-page-summary#training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">training employees<\/a> as one of the most valuable activities a company can engage in, with a high return on investment. While Drucker mainly discusses what Horowitz calls <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-hard-thing-about-hard-things\/1-page-summary#functional-training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">functional training<\/a>, which educates employees on how to better perform their tasks and increases their ability to be productive, Horowitz also emphasizes <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-hard-thing-about-hard-things\/1-page-summary#management-training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">management training<\/a>, which enhances managers\u2019 ability to lead and prepares employees to take on greater management roles as their careers progress.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-structure-and-motivation\">Structure and Motivation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To guide an organization toward its goals, <strong>management must decide the most appropriate organizational structure<\/strong> to coordinate the activities of its workers. In the past, those structures were purely hierarchical, but Drucker argues that this thinking is out-of-date. Because so many professional specialists understand their work better than their supervisors, they\u2019ll often be called upon to make decisions that the managers above them aren\u2019t qualified to. For example, a software engineer will make decisions to improve a computer program (which is vital to meeting her business\u2019s goals) that her nonprogramming supervisor can\u2019t. While hierarchies still have their place, managers must explore a variety of options to better empower their people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Though Drucker doesn\u2019t elaborate on what the alternatives to traditional hierarchies are, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/reinventing-organizations\/1-page-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Reinventing Organizations<\/em><\/a>, Laloux describes several. While classifying hierarchies as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/reinventing-organizations\/1-page-summary#traditional-organizations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">traditional organizations<\/a>, Laloux differentiates them from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/reinventing-organizations\/1-page-summary#modern-organizations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">modern organizations<\/a> in which individuals\u2019 roles aren\u2019t static and people are allowed to innovate and question procedures at all levels of the group. A new iteration is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/reinventing-organizations\/1-page-summary#inclusive-organizations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inclusive organization<\/a>, which utilizes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/group-consensus\/\">group consensus<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/methods-of-decision-making-crucial-conversations\/\">decision-making<\/a> instead of relying on executive direction.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In developing employees, Drucker says that for-profit enterprises can learn a lot from nonprofit groups. Nonprofits rely heavily on volunteers who don\u2019t depend on the organization for a paycheck. Instead, volunteers are attracted to the organization\u2019s mission. <strong>They expect to be challenged and to feel the satisfaction of doing work that makes a difference.<\/strong> With modern workers\u2019 freedom to change employers and careers, this has also become true for profit-driven businesses. Whereas past management practices focused on the needs of the organization, modern managers must also concern themselves with what their employees want to get out of the job, especially when it comes to knowledge workers, as we\u2019ll see next.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: While Drucker recognizes that modern employees wish to be challenged and do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/fulfilling-work\/\">meaningful work<\/a>, they\u2019re also motivated by being empowered to carry out their jobs with a measure of autonomy. In <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/carrots-and-sticks-don-t-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Carrots and Sticks Don\u2019t Work<\/em><\/a>, Paul Marciano suggests that managers should <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/carrots-and-sticks-don-t-work\/chapter-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">delegate as much decision-making responsibility as possible<\/a> to the people actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-do-hard-work\/\">doing the work<\/a>. While this may necessitate even more training, it encourages workers to experiment and generate novel solutions to problems. <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/carrots-and-sticks-don-t-work\/chapter-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Empowerment also demonstrates trust<\/a> that employees will work toward the company\u2019s goals, which in turn creates feelings of ownership and accountability for the company\u2019s progress.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want your employees to perform at their best? How can you help employees advance in their positions? It goes without saying that an organization is nothing without the people who comprise it. The task of managers has always been to give those people direction, though the old style of top-down control is no longer always effective. 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