5. Being able to provide the necessary tools to succeed - no team will stay motivated if they do not have the necessary tools that are required to do their job. This includes: equipment, internal support, inventory, marketing materials, and training among other things.

6. Performance management - teams expect their leader to manage individuals who do not perform up to standard. Many managers often ignore these situations because they are afraid to deal with them. They hope instead that the situation will resolve itself. This is never the case; bad situations that are ignored will only get worse. This approach affects profitability, causes higher turnover, and generates low morale amongst everyone.

7. Being able to believe in your people - the majority of people want to do well and very few individuals approach a job with the intent of screwing it up. And yet many managers run their business thinking that employees must be treated with a watchdog mentality. Employees need to feel that they are on the same team with management and not like there is adversary between management and them. Those employees...

Employees that feel appreciated are those that do the best job, no matter what they are asked to do. They are the ones who motivate those around them because they have in fact been motivated by their leaders. Excellent motivate leads to good morale and quality production.
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