Ways of Motivation

Introduction


Don't believe anything you read in this series.
Even though these 100 easy articles were written from real-life coaching and consulting experience, you won't gain anything by trying to decide whether you believe any of them. Belief is not the way to succeed here. Practice is the way.
Grab a handful of these tried and proven ways to motivate others and use them. 
Try them out.  ..........See what you get................ Examine your results................ That's what will get you what you really want: motivated people.

Most people we run into do what doesn't work, because most people try to motivate others by downloading their own anxiety onto them. Parents do this constantly; so do managers and leaders in the workplace. They get anxious about their people's poor performance and then they download that anxiety on their people. Now everybody's tense and anxious!
Downloading your anxiety onto someone only motivates that person to get away from you as quickly as possible. It doesn't motivate them to do what you really want them to do. It doesn't help them get the best out of themselves.
Managers blame their own people for poor numbers, when it's really the manager's responsibility. CEOs blame their managers, when it's really the CEO. They call consultants in a panic, talk about the numbers, and then ask, "Should we do FISH? Do you recommend FISH?"
"FISH" is a current training fad that has a great deal of value in inspiring employees and focusing on the customer. But we don't deliver fish in this book. We deliver an observation about fish. "A fish rots from the head down," we remind the manager whose people are not performing. And that's our version of fish.
So, the first step in motivating others is for you, if you're the leader wanting the motivation, to realize that "if there's a problem, I'm the problem." Once you truly get that, then you can use these 100 ways.
The mastery of a few key paradoxes is vital. They are the paradoxes that have allowed our coaching and consulting to break through the mediocrity and inspire success where there was no success before.
Paradoxes such as:

1. To get more done, slow down.
2. To get your point across, stop talking.
3. To hit your numbers faster, take them less seriously and make a game of it.
4. To really lead people, go ahead of them.
These are a few of the paradoxes that open leadership up into a spiral of success you have never imagined.
Hope you'll find, as we have, that leadership can be fun if you break it into these easy pieces.