Questions tagged [motivation]
Why we do the things we do. Questions here center around the idea of how to get excited and do a good job rather than a poor one.
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What to do when my ideas aren't chosen, when I strongly disagree with the chosen solution?
Bit of a psychological question I have here in relation to working as a programmer.
In your work environment, when you're working on a particular system and that system needs to change due to ...
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I'm no longer enjoying my work. How can I revamp?
In September 2019, I will complete 5 years in the Software Engineering industry. Prior to this, I completed lots of personal projects during my undergrad days. I have lived with the code for the last ...
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How to get over being angry due to being laid off? [closed]
Due to circumstances beyond my control, a contract that I loved working on has been terminated with very little warning and I have been told my last day is Friday.
I understand its business, the ...
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Seeing no perspective in job - low motivation [closed]
I'm currently working as a consultant in the it department of an company which is active in industry. I've studied computer science and my goal was to become a software developer. My job currently ...
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How can I motivate someone voluntarily giving me their time?
Backstory
I'm developing a web-application for an active shooter defense training company. They go to organizations all around the country and teach them how to be best prepared for a horrible ...
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Team building events vs. presents
In our region it is often the case, that you get a christmas present from your company to appreciate for the work one has done.
That was also the case in our company, but since the company has new ...
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Wheaton's law rewritten as a company policy / company value [closed]
Wheaton's law: "Don't be a dick", we feel would be a excellent company policy or company value. But for obvious reasons we can not use that verbatim.
What would be a more work appropriate way of ...
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How to deal with effort not being recognised?
I'm in the 4rth month of my compulsory, military service at the rank of Private. I'm knowledgeable and (un)lucky enough to be enlisted in the IT - Research Corps, so my military life so far has been ...
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Resigning from a job within months of starting [duplicate]
I have 4+ years of experience in the software industry.
At my first job, I stayed for around 3.1 years
I left my second job within a year (i.e in 9 months.) I left because I was not happy with the ...
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How do you incentivize employees with tough-to-measure roles?
I work in a sales development team as a solutions developer, i.e. I build sales and operations efficiency tools.
So, one part of the department is made up of roles like mine; we do different tasks ...
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Showing up late at workplace [closed]
I recently (about 2 months ago) hired in a software development company as SysAdmin.
The main reason I got hired was to improve my skills in SysAdmin and DevOps stuff, I had my own dedicated server ...
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How do I motivate usage of Git for the next maintainer?
I'm currently preparing to leave my company and writing extended documentation on the system for an eventual successor. An important note: I was the sole developer on the whole project for the last ...
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How do I keep myself motivated when working alone/at home?
I am working as a data scientist in a multi-country company. There are only 4 of us located in my particular country. The other 3 are often on the road, meaning that quite a lot of days, I am alone in ...
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How to keep team members motivated when working with bad manager
I’ve been working for the same company for few years now, recently they hired a new manager and I was assigned to be part of his team, starting a new project. I’m a lead developer in that team and I’m ...
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How do I improve my relationship with difficult/pretentious colleagues?
I'm a programmer at a smaller company and I enjoy the responsibility and the freedom that this brings. It also mean that the professional relationships you have inside the company are more important.
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How to keep motivation in a burnt out workplace while interviewing elsewhere?
I currently work at a company that's experiencing something of a mass exodus. Due to managerial issues, 5 of the best engineers on an 8 person engineering team have either left or put in their two ...
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How can I make a lazy/busy person respond to my email? [duplicate]
Imagine I sent an email with a question to a person working in the UK in an organisation with relaxed work standards. Technically it is his responsibility to reply but in reality I cannot complain to ...
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Moved to scrum, now developers are doing just QA
I understand that in scrum developers do some QA, but in the last several sprints we've been doing almost nothing but QA.
We've brought this up to management, but they insist that that's how scrum ...
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Change things, or look like the bad guy? [closed]
When I joined my job, I replaced a guy that had all of the tools and processes in a mess. He wouldn't fix them and made himself essential to hold everything together. At the time, I thought of him as ...
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How to deal with manager who keep leading project into wrong directions?
My current situation is as follow:
i work in a software company, mainly focus on embedded system. i moved into current company in 2016 and started as fresh-man at division X.
The current project was ...
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How to ask to get back to previous department?
Last year in July, I started working for my current employer, a software firm with ±250 employees worldwide (just to get the picture). We are working on a client-server based software product, and I ...
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I see myself consistently falling into micro-sleep at work [closed]
As a web developer, I see myself consistently falling into micro-sleep - mainly at the beggining of afternoons and during the end of mornings. Obviously, my productivity isn't the best.
I pay ...
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New manager penalising my team for 'tiredness' - how to shield them?
Background
I'm an infrastructure support night team leader for a very large IT services company in the UK. Due to the requirement for 24/7 support that most of our clients have, the support teams are ...
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How to gain motivation to do “boring” work?
I am an intern at an auditing firm. Completing this internship is mandatory to become a qualified chartered accountant. I like this profession, but sometimes I have to do boring jobs for which I have ...
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How can I tell a board of an organization that they might be the problem?
So I am part of an organization that will not be named, that has a pretty decent member size, with a then small board size that does planning, decision making, etc.
A common problem that our ...
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Dealing with demotivation due to difficult project even though performance is fine [closed]
I am a back-end(PHP/Symfony) developer in a company.
At the moment, I have a drop in my motivation that results in procrastinating during my work hours, getting anxious and having a low morale. Stress ...
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Dealing with a slow moving project as a professional researcher
Context
I have an undergraduate degree and I'm working as a medical researcher in a research lab, affiliated with a University. I've done very little since being employed, due to problems such as:
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How to overcome corporate inertia [duplicate]
The situation:
I work on a small company in Brazil, that is not focused on development. I can’t really find a way to describe my position, but I work as a mix of infrastructure, network and database ...
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How to make my fellow club members communicate with me [closed]
I am volunteering at a local student musical club. We are planning to do a musical production once a year. Although the whole ensemble is highly motivated and capable we have some problems in the ...
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How do I avoid explaining the reason for my sabbatical in an interview?
I intend to take a sabbatical to write a book about the domain I work in (I will quit my current job and spend some months to write it). It would be on a topic that some might think it's controversial....
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Rewarding employees with increased holiday entitlement for years of loyal service [closed]
We’re looking to implement a scheme whereas employees are rewarded for years of loyal employment.
We’d be interested to hear about similar schemes (or entirely different ones) that reward loyalty and ...
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How do you stay motivated during the job search process?
I've been starting up the job search again, and forgot how tiring it can be.
If you consider the time it takes to think about what you are looking for, to research companies, prepare your resume/...
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Should I write annual performance appraisal reports in front of the employee being reviewed?
I have to write annual performance appraisal report for my subordinates. This appraisal report further goes to my senior for approval and then after a few months will reach to the reviewed person.
As ...
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Designing a reward points based appraisal system for my subordinates [closed]
I am in a managerial position in an organization where the system of performance appraisal is an annual form submitted by the employees which are then reviewed by the superiors to award them grading ...
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How to gracefully quit after joining a new job within a week? [duplicate]
Basically I had two great opportunities one in a big research organisation and other from a fast paced startup. After some thought and a bit of intuition I though to join the first one but within ...
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Problem with hesitation in accepting authority at workplaces [closed]
I'm a developer and have previously worked with startups only since graduating 3 years ago.
The reason is that I want to learn as much as possible, upgrade my skills, while having to deal with as ...
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Cultural differences from one's home country as a reason for taking a job back home
I'm currently working in a foreign country and have already lived abroad in more than one country for some years. Now, however, I realize that there are many differences between where I'm from (in ...
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Is there something during the work day that I can do to increase productivity after work? [closed]
I often find myself exhausted after work hours (8 hours of work plus commuting [and meal] times). When I get home, I am unable to be productive on my personal projects, even if I have the motivation ...
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Expressing personal opinions when speaking with manager [closed]
I am a software developer to a company. This past month I've been tasked to train our lead developer. I will pass my current project to him at the end of this month. I recently mentioned my ...
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How can I deal with not being “allowed” to finish projects by management?
I work in a the Marketing Department in a role that essentially bridges the gap between IT and Marketing, if there is anything technical, it basically falls to me to be the one to implement it, this ...
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Getting rejected in final rounds [closed]
This has happened with me couple of times when I got rejected either in Product engineering round or simple Q&A round which were the last round.
This is very frustrating for me because I had to ...
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Being interviewed for an intern job that I am not very motivated to get
I am an undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering, and I have currently completed about 60% of my course. In order to graduate, an internship is mandatory.
I am not in a hurry to find an ...
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Interview question: What do you want?
I am a software engineer and I usually get this question and the end of a long interview process. After hours of tough technical sessions, by the end of the day I'm ready to go home and decompress. ...
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A new hire is asking tons of questions which takes up a lot of my time
I am trying to create a culture where developers attempt to solve their own problems first before approaching me. Right now, it is the opposite. They come to me as a first resort. Of course, I will ...
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Need help with employee with poor attitude
I have an team mate that I work with as a territory sales rep. As a position that is expected to work as a lateral leader and without authority, our mutual management team had tasked me with coming ...
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How to study in a closed office environment?
My new workplace is totally a closed environment, its a banking firm hence I am not even allowed to open personal mail. Github and Stackoverflow is allowed but I cannot log in, neither I can use any ...
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How to tell my boss that his decision quenched the last bit of my already low motivation? [closed]
I'm working as a senior developer in a mid sized consulting firm, specialized in web projects. Though my peers and I are usually "sold" as a workforce on customer projects (not much consulting ...
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How to motivate a junior team member who has been procrastinating and is being somewhat careless
I'm a team lead and I have a team member who has a little more than an year's experience. He is basically smart and capable but he has been having an issue for couple of months and I have not been ...
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Remaining motivated when being declined multiple times?
I am a dedicated individual looking at gaining work in the aviation sector. I’m fresh out of High School, and my college degree requires at least one year of work experience. I love working with ...
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Why companies do not use varying pay depending on how fast you do a small task as motivational system?
Here I see a big problem in situations:
There is a manager/scrum master who wants to get work done fast in sprint, not be late. I often see them trying to use frightening/angry tone and similar stuff ...
