Motivation

To empower your team members is much more than delegation. Empowering is about letting your own power go! Empower! The very word is rich with significance. You remember the last time someone recognized you this way? How did you feel then? Wonderful feeling!…

Motivation LeaderShift –bucket-full of joy Anyone can achieve mediocrity. After all, it's hardly difficult to do so. You want to be happy right? I'm sure that no one wants to be miserable and depressed?!? Now happiness is something that most people strive…

Generating Motivation to Change Template Instructions Coach Your role as the coach is to guide your coachee to a specific performance improvement. The following questions are known to work well in ensuring that the change is both positive and real. Use these…

Negative feedback is always difficult to give, it is even harder to receive. Follow these top ten tips and it will be received in a suitable way, and remember to do this in private: 1. Acknowledge the person · Adopt the attitude that this individual is doing…

It is tempting to give positive feedback without preparation, after all, it’s a nice thing to be doing. When you prepare, your positive feedback enables sustainable behaviours. Remember, give positive feedback in public. § Be specific § Be sincere §…

Watch the clip below, taken form John F. Kennedy's famous Rice University speech in 1962 Our focus in this short eCourse is on the clip above. But, if you have not watched this speech in full, I highly recommend that you do. It is replete with excellent motivational…

John F. Kennedy’s 1962 Rice University speech is replete with motivational triangle messages. We have chosen just one of the many motivation triangle sentences from this single speech to illustrate how you use this triangle. I quote, "The exploration of…

All you need to remember about motivating someone is in this triangle. Their resources – what you want them to use or give to achieve the goal. The goal itself. This is either your goal for them, or their goal for themselves. And their personal values.…

Using the motivation triangle in a sales situation. The resources in this simple example are widgets. And the prospective client has money. The values. In this case, the prospective client used the words, faster and quickly, in regard to what was important…

Let me warp this up with an example that many of our clients ask for help. Getting kids to do homework. All parents, especially in Singapore, want their children to excel in school. Yet some children are less keen on finishing their homework and more keen…