Key principles for motivating others
■ Be motivated yourself. If you are not fully committed and
enthusiastic, how can you expect others to be?
■ Select people who are highly motivated. It is not easy to motivate
the unwilling. Choose those who have the seeds of high
motivation within them.
■ Set realistic and challenging targets. The better the team and
its individual members, the more they will respond to objectives
that stretch them, providing these are realistic.
■ Remember that progress motivates. If you never give people
feedback on how they are progressing, you will soon demotivate
them.
■ Provide fair rewards. Not easy. Do you reward the whole
team, or each individual, or both? Either way, the perception
of unfair rewards certainly works against motivation.
■ Give recognition. This costs you nothing, but praise and
recognition based upon performance are the oxygen of the
human spirit.
Reference
Develop your leadership skills by John Adair
