MOTIVATE OTHERS: WAYS 71 - 80

101 WAYS TO MOTIVATE OTHERS

(REVISED EDITION)

STEVE CHANDLER & SCOTT RICHARDSON

(226 PAGES)

 

100 WAYS	NOTES
71	USE THE POWER OF DEADLINES The best way to predict the future is to create it -Peter F. Drucker- Deadline is described as a time by which something must be done. Deadlines propel action.  Without deadlines, there is no goal, just a nebulous request that adds to the general confusion at work.
72	TRANSLATE WORRY INTO CONCERN Difficulties are meant to rouse not discharge. -William Ellery Channing, Minister Psychologist- Practice upgrading worry to concern.  Once concern is stated, create the action plan to address it.  People are motivated by people in love with life than by people who worry about life.
73	LET YOUR MIND RULE YOUR HEART If you don’t think about the future, you won’t have one -Henry Ford- Leadership requires that the chess master in you be in charge of the thinking and decision-making processes throughout the day. Leadership is about making clear, smart decisions about where and how you spend your time.  Leading people is about getting smarter with your time every day.
74	BUILD A CULTURE OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I Have always said that if I were a rich man I’d hire a professional praiser -Sir Osbert Sitwell, Poet- One way to motivate others better is to change the question you ask yourself each day.  Instead of “How do I get them to do less of what bothers me” ask them “What is the best thing I can do to get my team to do more of what I want them to do?” Most managers find out what’s wrong, and then criticize that.  They look for problems. Recognition, acknowledgment and appreciation works better. Whenever possible, recognize those people in front of other people.  Send an award or a note from the company’s president.
75	SEIZE RESPONSIBLITY 99% of failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses -George Washington Carver- Responsible is response-able or being able to respond.  It’s simply the ability to respond, the ability to do something. When responsibility is clear, problems can be solved and people will know the direction to move forward.
76	GET SOME COACHING YOURSELF A teacher affect eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adam, American Historian- The object of watching processes is to allow the leader to discover his or her hidden strengths and to bring them to the forefront. Coaching makes the opportunity to explore the upper limits of excellence a conscious part of the leader’s career.
77	MAKE IT HAPPEN TODAY What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour? -Ralph Waldo Emerson- Make each day your masterpiece: John Wooden (Successful college Basket-ball Coach) Focus on today.  Make today the proudest day of your life. To most of us, the future is where our happiness lies.  So we project things into the future.  But the past is where the problem began, so we also spend lots of time in the past.  But actually every good thing that has ever happened, happened now.
78	LEARN THE INNER THING Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Whoever looks outside only dreams, whoever looks inside also a wakens. -Carl Jung- The Inner forces in every human being can be called on to achieve great things.
79.	FORGET ABOUT FAILURE  A life spent making mistake is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing -George Bernard Shaw- Manager often obsess about failure.  Failure can be turned into something good if it’s studied for the wisdom to be gained from it.  According to great professor of linguistics S.I. Hayakawa the are basically 2 kinds of people: The kind who fails at something and says I failed at that. The kind who fails at something and says I’ m a failure. As you lead people today, always keep in mind that there’s nothing wrong with them.  Get connected and show your people how to leave all their ‘I’m a failure’ thought and be that. ‘I failed at that’ person.
80.	FOLLOW CONSULTING WITH ACTION Action is eloquence -Shakespear- Leaders are the most important people in the organization because they can choose not to make things happen as well as to make things happen. A coach can only shine a light and assist.  It’s always the willingness if the leader to generate the action that makes a true difference.

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.