Motivating Others

"Good leaders take people where they want to go. Great leaders take people where they necessarily don't want to go, but ought to be."

- Roselyn Carter

"A first grader came home and told her parents she was the Leader today in class. The Dad said oh really what did you do as the Leader? She responded, 'hold the door open for the other kids'."

From Dan Pink:

Watch this 10 minute video on what motivates people and what doesn't.

From Steve Chandler's, 100 Ways to Motivate Others:

Motivating others requires a connection to people's deep desires. It's not just about loading them down with a lot of "how to" information. Transformation is more important than information. Action is everything. 

My Input: I don't know of a better way to do this than the Weekly Coaching Conversation. Watch this short video to demonstrate the tool and explain how to use it in your Weekly Coaching conversations.

https://youtu.be/F8RQFuf5q5w

So a great motivator of others will value testing over trusting. She won't waste time getting her people to trust change, or trust the system-  she will work on ways to test these things.

Change in the workplace and the world is exponential now. It is no longer linear, predictable change. It is more like the absolutely unexpected shocking change described so dramatically in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's, The Black Swan. Because of this, great motivators are now welcoming change and helping their people see all change as a creative opportunity.

Organizations are more vulnerable than ever to suddenly disappearing. They can become obsolete in a heartbeat. And rather than have that be frightening, one who masters motivating himself and others finds that exciting.