- Do establish goals for each employee
- Do measure performance
- Do focus on performance
- Don't tell employees when they must work
- Do provide a sense of meaning
- Do offer control over how they do their job
- Do help people to feel more competent
- Don't treat people unfairly
- Do ask, are the worth it
- Do give them control
- Do feed their need to compete
- Don't think that recognition doesn't matter
- Do model the behavior you'd like to see
- Do be flexible
- Do provide specific, fact based & practical feedback
- Don't tell more than you ask
- Do make recognition a priority
- Do give people control over their job
- Do listen
- Don't "Yes, but..."
- Do showcase top talent
- Do reward top talent
- Do give top talent flexibility
- Don't turn a blind eye to problems
