Employee motivation ideas for managers and leaders

Re:Employee motivation ideas for managers and leaders by renewiltord on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @03:48PM (#22949462)

I did not choose this path and so far I have not regretted it. Additional responsibility empowered and accelerated me. For the most part, the critical limiter on my growth is what people trusted me to do. The more they trusted me with the better I became, the smarter and more capable I became. That's still happening.

I'm pretty sure that if someone gave me the ability to be CEO of Google for a year I would be a vastly more advanced person than I am today. I would take that job unpaid in any respect. I would even gladly take the job of guy-who-is-defacto-CEO-of-Google-but-no-one-knows-it-and-he-is-under-NDA-to-never-reveal. i.e. it isn't the signaling value. It is the responsibility. This is continuous-approximable all the way to a job like a janitor which you'll have to pay me in the ballpark of a million dollars a year to do and I can't see myself doing it for long. So obviously there's some intermediate-value theorem type result where one of the benefits crosses in value over the other.

Ideally, I'm operating around that space.

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Re:Employee motivation ideas for managers and leaders by mettamage on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @04:25PM (#22949802)

> For the most part, the critical limiter on my growth is what people trusted me to do.

Yep, same. I didn't get a job for a year because I'm not experienced enough (graduated 2018 near the top of my class and so on, jobless for past 18 months now). And the companies I applied to most of the time don't look at my resume because (1) I suck at writing it and (2) a lot of experiences get unfairly discounted (creating part of the trust problem). When people did trust me I:

- Taught developers to become a junior web developer and get jobs (yep ironic)

- Prevented a company for reputational damages because their whole developer team walked out and I basically coded their long awaited big update (in a team the first 6 weeks, and then 6 weeks by myself). Without the update, the clients of said company would not have been happy.

- Gave lectures to university students about player frustration and making a website within 4 hours even if you don't have any skill.

- Help people obtain their OSCP certificate.

Just some examples to list. I know that I'm bad at the interviewing game, I'm working on it. My problem is that I'm a generalist, and people don't like to hire generalists I've noticed.

I wasn't experienced at any of this, yet I made it happen. It seems not everyone is familiar with the concept of utilizing transferable skills, and putting trust in such a thing.

They should teach interviewing skills and handling your managers / gaining more trust at university though, because it's a waste of productivity that people who can handle more are not trusted to handle more.

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