How do you motivate staff to maintain their peak performance levels? By setting the right kind of frameworks and establishing virtuous cycles of progress, says Craig B. Wynett, Chief Learning Officer at Procter & Gamble!

Flexible environments that encourage individual initiative produce the most promising projects. Companies that have developed such strong intrepreneurial cultures encourage staff to act as intrepreneurs, who combine company resources with an eye for market opportunities! Based on Corporate Entrepreneurship: How to Create a Thriving Entrepreneurial Spirit Throughout Your Company by Robert D. Hisrich and Claudine Kearnay (McGraw-Hill, September 2011), and the interview with Olivier Leclerc, director of entrepreneurial initiatives, Alcatel-Lucent, January 2012.

Employee progress in the work itself is the most powerful motivator, report Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer. How can managers support the daily progress of teams in order to strengthen employee engagement? By resisting the temptation to micromanage! Based on The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer (Harvard Business Review Press, August 2011), “Start the New Year in Progress”, by the same authors (Harvard Business Review, December 2011) and the interview with Craig Wynett, Chief Learning Officer chez Procter & Gamble, January 2012.