Tip of the Month

May 2012: The Secret to Motivating Your Staff

Question: Tell me how to motivate my staff. Isn’t that something a good manager is supposed to do?

Alice Waagen says: No. No. No. You cannot motivate another person. Motivation is an internal state that each and every individual has or lacks based on numerous, personal conditions. What you can and must do as a leader in your organization is to create and foster those conditions that will positively support a person’s work.

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Clients

Since 1997, Alice has provided leadership development and executive coaching to Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies in the Washington, DC area. In just the last three years, more than 55 leaders from 20 regional organizations have graduated from her unique leadership development workshop series.

Some of Alice Waagen’s clients include:

  • Advanced Recruiting Trends LLC
  • Airbus
  • Airline Tariff Publishing Company (ATPCO)
  • American University
  • Benchmark Training
  • Children’s Hospital Foundation
  • Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Department of Energy
  • Department of the Interior
  • Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
  • Envision EMI
  • Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
  • Habitat for Humanity, Northern VA
  • Helios HR
  • Janelia Farm Research Campus
  • J. Craig Venter Institute
  • Library of Congress
  • Middleburg Bank
  • National Education Association (NEA)
  • National Education Association, Member Benefits (NEA-MB)
  • Natural Resources Defense Council
  • National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
  • National Institute of Health (NIH)
  • Noblis
  • Noldus Information Technology
  • Nourse Leadership Strategies
  • PBS Distribution
  • Smart HR
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Social Security Administration
  • Staffing Advisors
  • Trillium Group
  • U.S. Census Bureau
  • U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF)
  • VIRxSYS Inc.
  • WETA