How to motivate your employees, are there any best practices?

Providing training to help an employee improve is doable, but when an employee has completely "checked out", there may be nothing left to fix. "Even the best training can’t repair an unmotivated, disengaged employee," says Eric Chester, Golden, Colo.-based employee engagement expert and author of Reviving Work Ethic: A Leader’s Guide to Ending Entitlement and Restoring Pride in the Emerging Workforce(Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2012). "So before cutting them loose, determine if this is a fixable situation."

motivating peaple is a very big chapter and any simpl thing can change your plane to motivate for the long term but with a good environment like peace and respect you can motivate your followers step  by step starting with bonus to get finily the self actualization

Dealing with employees is derived under the communication skills in general. Encouraging, discussing and understanding the weaknesses, personalities and strong points of each employee enable the Manager to distribute tasks successfully and thus, covering and improving the gaps.

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First to motivate any one you have to be a good listener and a better role model 

good listener will provide you with the each one of your team personality which will guide you to best way of motivation and best results.

also role model will give you a chance to make all your employees motivated by following you

example:-if you happy doing you job they will be happy also because you are there role model  and they will be motivated all the time 

plus understanding there needs and request.

Motivation is an important factor in any working environment, how to motivate your employees, is it compensating them monetarily or giving awards, or by giving them new challenging tasks or roles?