This week on Beers, Blokes and Business the discussion centres around what motivates staff, how to motivate staff and what rewards work best to maintain a productive and happy workforce. We also tackle the issue of the whether or not up-skilling employees with a view to letting them move on to different roles is a good or bad business practice.

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What will you learn from this podcast?

• The benefit of over communicating with your staff in building commitment to your business
• The alternative view that your current employer should plan for your departure and embrace it
• Money as a diminishing motivator. Debt as a great motivator.
• The timeless value of a “thank-you”
• One of the blokes inventing the word “intranerd”
• List cloggers and the motivation for staff that comes from removing them
• A bloke who used to be in the bean bag business
• Be willing to get your hands dirty if you want to lead people

Links from the podcast

• The #BBB Linkedin group
• On demand assistants at Sidekicker
• Zappos the ultimate happy workplace
• Christmas party favourite – Flippa

Watch these

Christmas Vacation – Jelly of the Month Club

Arnold Schwarzenegger motivational speech

On this BBB podcast were:

• @seancallanan from Sports Geek
• @scottkilmartin from Short Batch
• @sammartino from Start Up Blog
• Steve Vallas (@thehoneybar) from HONEY
• @joshrowe from JoshRowe.com

The brew consumed in this podcast was… Peroni Nastro Azzuri

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