Motivational speaker in SA, Estienne de Beer and senior management sometimes meet at meetings. Entrusting decisions downwards will reduce stress on the senior management.  It will also give them a vote of confidence and encourage them to take responsibility. These steps are just the beginning to employee motivation. Be sure to do research about the topic and you can always make use of a motivational speaker to get you team started moving in the right direction. This brings us to the importance of a motivation theory. Abraham Maslow once said, "If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."  Abraham Maslow He is just one of the great philosophers that produced a motivation theory that is still today widely recognized and used around the world. His need hierarchy theory together with the drive theory of Freud, Frederick Herzberg's two factor theory, and Alderfer's ERG theory are famous for the results that came from it - and from an encouragement point of view - motivational speaker in SA, Estienne de Beer.