Posts Tagged ‘Motivation’

This Fair Exchange is the Key to Your Leadership. Do You Know About It?

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

Can you be a leader without having group members?

I don’t think so…

If that is the case, then what should be the strategy, so that group members accept your directions and influence?

It sounds simple

but you must learn exactly what your group members need. The members of the group will only accept your direction if you help them to fulfill their needs.

This fair exchange is the key to your leadership

They can then decide what to do to satisfy those needs in exchange for performing certain duties for you.

Therefore, as a leader, you have a wide range of incentives to offer to the group

You must satisfy more than simply the financial needs of your people. You earn your position of leadership by doing things that give them hope – that their needs will be satisfied.

The understanding of the implications of these needs should be of great importance to you

I urge you to investigate the works of the psychologist, Abraham Maslow who created a five-tiered pyramid that represents the relative importance of five different levels of human needs. Combine your investigation with Frederick Herzberg’s two-factor motivation theory, and it will provide you with a greater insight into the needs of group members.

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Leadership, Leadership Development, Motivation, Team Work – All sounds too Mumbo Jumbo? (Part 3)

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

The Team - ‘Team work’ is a phase susceptible to over-use and abuse in the workspace. A true measure of the effectiveness of team work is when you leave the team environment for a time and on your return find that things are running as smoothly as when you left. To develop value within a team, consider three areas:

  • Make the team feel like a team

Unless you include everyone equally in the day to day running of the team, favoritism, alienation and a lack of respect will develop. By letting the individuals see that you are a supporter and protector of the team. An effective vehicle to encourage this is a team briefing where everyone can get involved.

  • Make the team think like a team

Choosing the right medium to communicate to the team is important. Memos, letters and the telephone can often be seen as distancing you from the team. Regular team briefings can open a two-way channel of communication.

  • Make the team work like a team

Often as the size of department grows, jobs and sections of a team can become isolated and fragmented. Your job as a manager is to use your leadership skills to get everyone involved in the work place. Being enthusiastic about an individual’s input is important as it will encourage him to help others, and in so doing work together as a team.

Motivation when balanced with organizing skills will equal leadership

This will allow efficiency in completing daily routines and crisis management. However, leadership is not just organizing, it involves humanity, the human element; as a manager you require both if you are to lead and motivate your team.

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Leadership, Leadership Development, Motivation, Team Work – All sounds too Mumbo Jumbo? (Part 1)

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

Leadership is a combination of organizing and motivating. The confidence which is given by the manager to his team can be developed by giving value to:

  1. Their job
  2. Them as individuals
  3. Them as a team

The Job – As a manager it is important for you to maintain the motivation within the department. To do this, three aspects of the job need to be taken into consideration:

Context: All too often people are told to get on with daily tasks in their jobs without being given a reason for completing them. The end result is “telling” rather than ‘selling’ atmosphere generated by the manager. You must be able to carry people along by allowing them to understand the context of the job and where it fits into the organization. This will stimulate interest and initiative from the individual.

Example: ‘Leading by example’ is an everyday cliché, but it has merit. Team members will view you as an example to emulate and therefore, you must set a positive example and approach to all aspects of work.

Importance: A good leader will let people know how important their work is, and recognize the importance of that work. Regardless of how ‘low profile’ or ‘high profile’ the job is, emphasis of importance must be offered to the owners of the job, if they are to remain motivated.

In the subsequent posts, we shall dilate on the other two categories mentioned above.

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