MOTIVATE OTHERS: WAYS 61 - 70

101 WAYS TO MOTIVATE OTHERS

(REVISED EDITION)

STEVE CHANDLER & SCOTT RICHARDSON

(226 PAGES)

 

100 WAYS	NOTES
61	CULTIVATE THE POWER OF REASSURANCE In Organization, real power and energy is generated through relationship. The patterns of relationship and the capacities to form them are more important than task, functions, roles and positions - Margaret Wheatly Management Consultant - Integrate reassurance into the personal system and managerial approach, thing will change on your team.  The state of mind of the people will be altered for the better. People look to their leader for reassurance.
62	PHASE OUT DISAGREMENT The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas - Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize-Scientist - Listen for the value in what someone has to say.  Don’t listen for what to agree or disagree with them.  The manager’s obsession with disagreement will make the employee fell undervalued. Sometimes you have to disagree.  But the less you do, the better the team will be for you.  The more motivated your people will be.
63	KEEP LEARNING Leaders grow, they are not made - Peter F. Drucker - Stay on your learning curve.  Let your people see you learning. Add our knowledge base and it will increase our professional strength and capacity to help others.
64	LEARN WHAT LEADERSHIP IS NOT The great leaders are like the best conductors. They reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players -Blaine Lee, Management Consultant- Managers make a big mistake when they get bossy.  You can be decisive and courageous, and hold people accountable without being pushy and bossy. Control is not leadership.  Management is not leadership.  If you seek to lead, invest at 50% of your time leading yourself; 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers (Dee Hock, founder & CEO of Visa). Most leader are thinkers.  In today’s world, leader should find the magic in their players.
65	HEAR YOUR PEOPLE OUT I have more fun, and enjoy more financial success, when I stop trying to get what I want and start helping other people get what they want -Spencer Johnson, Business Author- What your people say of you is true.  You are who they say you are.  So listen to your people.  Understand them.  Always be mindful. When we are mindful, we notice that another person suffers.  The practice of love in deep listening.  Learning how to listen deeply is our responsibility.  Listen with all our heart without intention to judge, condemn, or criticize.
66	PLAY IT LIGHTLY The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. Then you develop the funny bone, and the wishbone that go with it. -Elaine Agather, Ceo JPMorgon Bank- The Manager who are the most creative, productive and innovative see business as a chess game, played for fun and challenge.  When they lose, they just set up the pieces again even more excitedly.  The worst failures and most miserable people at work are the ones who take everything too seriously. They will miss the ·         Fun ·         Creativity ·         Light hearted ideas ·         Intuition ·         Good spirits ·         Easy energy ·         Quick laughter All those that brings people close to each other.
67	KEEP ALL YOUR SMALLEST PROMISES Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together -Vincent Van Gogh- People are motivated by people they trust.  Being late to your own meeting is one of the things that will destroy trust.
68	GIVE POWER TO THE OTHER PERSON When I’m getting ready to persuade a person, I spend one-third of the time thinking about myself, what I’m going to say, and two-thirds of the time thinking about him and what he is going to say -Abrahom Lincoln- The goal is to get people to work with you.  There’s always this hidden fear inside the people you are leading.  Try to understand the reason and remove the fear Ask gentle questions and let the people they lead think and speak and make their own fresh commitments.
69	DON’T FORGET TO BREATH In war, as in peace, a man needs all the brain he can get. Nobody ever had too many brains. Brains come from oxygen. Oxygen comes from the lungs where the air goes when we breathe. The oxygen in the air gets into the blood and travels to the brain. Any fool can double the size of his lungs -George Patton- Putting so much energy and intensity into performance will lead to enthusiasm, generating excitement.
70	KNOW YOU’VE GOT THE TIME Start by doing what’s necessary then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible -St Francis- Slow down your own sense of time down to the speed of life by choosing what you choose to do.