In my last post, I asked readers to share how they would try to motivate me to do a task I find incredibly boring and tedious. Apparently finding ways to get me to work isn’t tedious - I got some incredibly insightful responses:

• One reader challenged me to improve upon the process - if possible by leveraging new technology - to really demonstrate my great qualities to managers.

• One reader suggested that I teach myself to make the best of it. After all, there will always be unappealing tasks in life, and perhaps this is as good of a time as any to learn how to get through them.

• Another proposed that we make a tedious process of sorting through clothes to look for ink tags exciting by providing rewards for locating certain tags, thus encouraging both excitement and attention to detail.

• One e-mail I received aimed to shift my outlook from “What does this audit do for me?” to “By doing this audit, how am I helping my friends at work?”

So, right there, you’ve got four different ways to encourage an employee to get involved and committed to a boring task. Which one would work best to begin motivating some of your young employees?

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