Employee motivation

Have you recently reduced your employee’s hours of work? Have you cut salaries of your management team? Have you reduced your budget? Are you considering cost-cutting measures for your business/agency? If you answered yes, your employee’s productivity performance and customer service will be affected by these decisions. You still can reduce hours and wages while increasing motivation, which will in turn increase performance, productivity, and customer service. If you are interested in learning how to achieve motivation in the workplace, then attend the next SHRM meeting.

The Society for Human Resource Management has invited Rik Villegas and Janel Villegas, to speak on motivating your employees. Janel is the owner of Positively Outrageous Results, a company that helps businesses achieve far greater results by utilizing their current resources and helping their people improve their performance. Rik is a business instructor at Northern Marianas College, and has also been the director for the Small Business Development Center and the faculty senate president at NMC. He not only teaches business courses, but he also consults privately with businesses ranging from small companies with less than 10 employees to major corporations on Saipan and Guam. Both Rik and Janel write a weekly business column for the Saipan Tribune.

With revenue shortfalls and looming budget cuts, motivation is a major issue with many organizations. The question many supervisors ask themselves is: How can I motivate my staff to do what they are supposed to do?

In this workshop, presented by Rik and Janel Villegas, you will learn what it takes to not only improve motivation, but how successful companies continue to utilize their greatest untapped resource—the human resource. Your people are the key to provide outstanding customer service and achieve greater results that translate into reduced costs and greater profits.

Here are a few points covered in this brief, but insightful presentation that will give you many actionable ideas you can apply right away.

• Learn about some principles that are proven to be effective in getting the most from people.

• Why more “pay” could be the worst solution to try to motivate others, and how the things that cost nothing can get the most performance from you staff.

• The greatest management principle in the world that is both simple to understand and implement in your organization.

• You must overcome this to really understand the core problem that causes a lack of motivation in others.

• How to create an exciting environment where people are valued for their contribution and feel compelled to give their best.

• Take a survey that identifies how you are doing in the 20 critical points that cause greater intrinsic motivation.

• Come away with an action plan to apply the ideas you will learn at this presentation, and develop the motivation to implement it.

All SHRM members are urged to join their peers for this current and informative conference. Non-members in the business community, whether owners, managers or human resource professionals, are invited to learn more about the Society and to improve their human resource knowledge through the program.

Date: March 16, 2006

Time: 11:30am to 1:30pm

Location: Charley’s Cabaret, Pacific Islands Club Saipan

Cost: $15 for SHRM members and $20 non-SHRM members (includes lunch and presentation materials)

Seating is limited; therefore individuals interested in attending this workshop should contact Andrea or Angela at phone 234-7976, fax 235-7789, or email hr@picsaipan.com mailto:hr@picsaipan.com for reservations.

The CNMI Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management is the Commonwealth’s foremost professional forum for discussion and training in Human Resource matters. Recognized as a Superior Merit Chapter, the CNMI branch is composed of human resource professionals from a variety of industries, large and small, who recognize a need for a local society for professionals in the human resources field. The CNMI Chapter is affiliated with the national organization. (PR)