Motivating Others

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How do you motivate others?

The simple and quick answer is - you can't. If you haven't realised it by now - if you cannot motivate yourself, how on earth are you going to motivate other people?

Employers use all sorts of tactics and tricks to motivate employees, you may have been on the receiving end of some of them, you've probably all seen them...pictures of "employee of the month" hanging on the wall in the lobby. Have you noticed that sometimes those pictures don't change for months on end. What sort of "motivation" does that signal to the employees?

Employers use incentive schemes but all that tends to do is introduce resentment and competition. It also means that employers have to use bigger incentives or "bigger sticks".

Employers also try "firing up" their employees by hiring motivational speakers, or doing some kind of team building activities, both of which have little or no long term lasting effect. In fact employees can see straight through these kinds of things for what they are...band-aid solutions, and false bonhomie. Having been on the receiving end of both these types of "ra ra sessions" I do have to question if the money could have been better spent.

Motivating others is impossible if they do not want to be motivated. If they are doing a job they hate, with people they dislike they are not likely to bond with these same people on a raft in the middle of a river now are they?

So what can you do?

Well you could lead by example:
If you have a job you enjoy doing you are more likely to fire other people up with your enthusiasm than any other way that I know.
On the other side - if you have a job you hate. Before you get a new one, ask yourself a simple question - is your attitude towards your job the problem? Or is it the job? If it's your attitude it doesn't matter where you work, you'll always hate what you do. You could be earning thousands a week and still be a miserable, grumpy person. So check the attitude factor before you chuck in the job. Oh and -
Don't take your personal problems to work, don't snap at people and then try and be nice when you want something - guess what - it doesn't work.
 
So if you want to motivate others, motivate yourself first, and you'll probably find people running to catch up. 

(MMO1)
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