Motivation the Easy Way
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011As an administrator over a team of any kind, you need to have a way to maintain motivation in a real time sort of way, while not giving away too many of the personal details that assure your staff that their privacy is in tact. How do you do this? There is a great tool in office called a gantt chart. You can either post this at an individual level (so privacy may not be a concern) or at a group level (so you’d be more general in the information you give out, i.e. 100 writers you could create bar charts for projects taken, projects, completed, projects completed on time, projects completed late, and so on). This tool allows you to create bar charts also known to many as “milestone charts”, that give you and your team an overall marker of where you are, where your going, and the progress in the middle. By creating these charts you can add database information to give it a robust look and feel. If your watching over a writer base, for example, and you want to motivate them to compete and succeed in their goals, you can create a chart for each of the writers. These charts can be like a heart monitor for the pulse of their work flow. You can show their statistics in visual representations of where they are based on their work flow. It can be tracked in real time as well as static charts.Sometimes if we see the progress we’re making it can motivate us to do much more- to top ourselves or to beat others out for all the glory.
You can get a Free Gantt Chart just by going on-line. You will get a download of the basic way to create a Gantt Chart as well as a flow-chart diagram. It’s the easiest way to get started with your Gantt Chart. Then after you down-load your chart, you can just make adjustments as your business changes,. Take advantage of this free download and your business is on its way to plan and track your progress. You can find out which projects are being completed and how long it takes to get them done. Now how easy is that? Enjoy your charting.