MOTIVATING OTHERS: WAYS 11 - 20

100 WAYS TO MOTIVATE OTHERS

(REVISED EDITION)

STEVE CHANDLER & SCOTT RICHARDSON

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100 WAYS	NOTES
11	LEAD FROM THE FRONT You can’t change people. You must be the change You wish to see in people - Ghandi - It motivate others when you are out there and you do it yourself.  It’s inspiring when a boss does what he want others to do. Be inspiring.  Leading from the front changes people more deeply and more completely than everything else.  So be what you want to see: ·         If you want your people to be more positive, be more positive ·         If you want them to take more pride in their work, take more pride in yours ·         If you want them to look good and dress professionally, look better yourself. ·         Always be early.
12	PREACH THE ROLE OF THOUGHT Great men are they who see that thought is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Make certain all the people you want to motivate understand the role of thought in life. The causal power of thought.  Nothing in the world has any meaning until they give it meaning.  People don’t make your employees angry; their own thought make them angry. Feeling vs Thinking;             Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do
13	TELL THE TRUTH QUICKLY Question: How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Answer: Four. Calling a tail a leg, doesn’t make it a leg. - Abraham Lincoln - Great Leader tell the truth faster than other manager do. Great people who lead their teams in performance and who prosper the most from their profession, are great givers.  They stay in constant touch with their power to do so much by constantly giving their internal and external clients beneficial things. ·         Helpful information ·         Offers of services ·         Respect for their time ·         Support for their success ·         Cheerful friendly encounters ·         Sincere acknowledgments Great leaders always ask the best questions and always listen better than anyone else. Such level of expertise can only be acquired through massive benefit-based interaction.
14	DON’T CONFUSE STRESSING OUT WITH CARING Stress, in addition to being itself and the result of itself, is also the cause of itself. - Hans Selye, Psychologist - Stressing out over our team’s goals is not the same as caring about them.  Stressing out makes one perform worse.  True caring makes one perform better.  Leadership success comes from knowing to focus and remain focused.  So, spend your attention where you want the greatest result.
15	MANAGE YOUR OWN SUPERVIORS There is no such thing as constructive criticism - Dale Carnegie - We have had a lot of different bosses to report to.  So, the best thing to do is to teach yourself to live and work peacefully with change.  Decide on how best to capitalize on the change.  Mixed messages from top management is a challenge that must be dealt with.
16	PUT YOUR HOSE AWAY Wise leaders and high achievers come to understand that they can’t hope to eliminate problems…  and wouldn’t want to - Dale Dauten - Many managers are ineffective leaders because they are fire fighters.  They don’t decide where the team is going; the fire decides for them.  When letting the fire controls your life: ·         You become unconscious of opportunity ·         You become blind to possibilities because you are engulfed in and defined by the fire. A great motivation doesn’t fight fires 24/7.  A true motivator leads people from present into the future.  Sometimes leaders doesn’t even have to put fire out; they sometimes just take a path around (or above) the fire a get to the desired future.
17	GET THE PICTURE People cannot be managed …. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led - H. Ross Perot - Leadership is a skill.  It can be taught and it can be learned at any age if the commitment to learn is present.  Always revise your picture of what a good leader is. Picture of a leader with a code to work By Dale Dauten, The Laughing Warriors, Lumina Media, 2003 THINK LIKE A HERO (Who can I help today?) WORK LIKE AN ARTIST (What else can we try?) REFUSE TO BE ORDINARY (Pursue excellence, than kill it) CELEBRATE (But take no credit)
18	MANAGE AGREEMENTS, NOT PEOPLE Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - A skilful leader is compassionate and always seeks to understand the feeling of others, but they do not try to manage those feelings. A leader manages agreement.  A leader creates agreement with team members and enter into those agreement on an adult-to adult basis.  This is more mature, respectful, trusting communication, more accountable, and easier to discuss uncomfortable subject.  The biggest beneficial impact of managing agreement is on communication. A commitment to managing agreement is basically a commitment to being two professional adult working together.
19	FOCUS ON THE RESULT NOT THE EXCUSE A leader has to be able to change organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless…. Someone’s got to make a wake-up call - Warren Bennis - Leaders need to manage the want to; not the how to.  Use the outcome management and not the process management.  Draw out and cultivate the why.
20	COACH THE OUTCOME Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes…. But no plans - Peter F Drucker - Managers need to simplify, simplify, and simplify.  Keep it as simple as you can, focusing on outcomes and result only. Managers should teach their people absolute respect for personal responsibility and result.  Every person is outcome-accountable as well as activity accountable simplify and focus on result.