Leading Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Source: Real Leaders Don't Boss: Inspire, Motivate, and Earn Respect from Employees and Watch Your Organization Soar II. NFL Offensive tackle Rayfield Wright on leading our youth: “Parents, teach your children well. Encourage them with your faith and leadership.

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Leading Blog

JULY 27, 2023

We need people who can think, write, and speak with clarity and conviction, people who can relate to and motivate accountants and salespeople, nurses and electrical engineers, systems analysts and social workers.” Source: Hoover's Vision: Original Thinking for Business Success II.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 27, 2020

Twenty-two different studies have, in the years since, found that the more materialistic and extrinsically motivated you become, the more depressed you will be. Twelve different studies found that the more materialistic and extrinsically motivated you become, the more anxious you will be.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Steven Kotler on achieving the art of the impossible: “Motivation is what gets you into the game; learning is what helps you continue to play; creativity is how you steer; and flow is how you turbo-boost the results beyond all rational standards and reasonable expectations.” Source: No Bullsh!t t Leadership II.

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Leading Blog

JULY 2, 2021

When people feel devalued, their motivation plummets. Although you can’t motivate anyone else, you can design the conditions in which they motivate themselves. “Leader with a bias for action may be operating with the unconscious belief that they don’t have time to offer empathy. These lead to declines in performance.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

When we see people as they are, we feel love and are motivated to serve people instead of using people or ignore people.” The better we understand the See-Feel-Act Progression , the quicker we can sort out our emotional and motivational lives. “ Seeing people are people, of equal value and with equal needs as ourselves.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

When an empathic leader, for example, sees a team member faltering, they don’t crank up the pressure to perform or use criticism to motivate. Nurture team member’s talents and strengths while using appreciation and positive reinforcement to encourage excellence. Nor do they lead with impatience, which only makes people freeze or panic.

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Leading Blog

MAY 15, 2023

Benevolence: Is the person inclined or motivated to do right by me? It’s surprising how often we misperceive and attribute false motivations to the other party. It suggests three factors determine whether we find someone trustworthy: Ability: Do I believe the person has the ability to deliver on their promises?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Employee Motivation Leads to Better Decision-Making. What can be increasingly hard for modern businesses is keeping employees motivated. This creates a challenge for leaders who need to be very innovative to motivate this young workforce to stay. To motivate their employees, leaders first need to understand what drives them.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

All organizations, lawful and unlawful, face the same corporate governance problem: how to attract, retain, and motivate a self-interested workforce to achieve the organization’s mission and strategy. Follow the Same Fundamental Economic Principles as Mobsters. Leaders’ ecosystems evolve, and so too must their strategies.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Mercy Most Merciful And Affirming from @JohnBaldoni Boss’s Tip of the Week: People are people from @wallybock The crucial link between motivation and self-awareness via @BBC It’s the People, Stupid!

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

When you think about your purpose in life and your motivations is important to keep the Four A’s in mind because “your motivations, the human desire to satisfy those basic emotional needs, are the 4 keys to understanding which of your attitudes, and behaviors are helping you achieve your goals—and which ones are holding you back.”

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

What tasks are your employees performing when they are filled with energy, drive, and motivation? The return on investment, however, is enormous: psychological safety, self-confidence, trust, motivation, innovation, and engagement – just to name a few benefits – skyrocket. What do they do naturally?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 17, 2020

They call them the Ingratutide Myths : fear is the best motivator, people want way too much praise these days, there’s just no time, I’m not wired to feel it, I save my praise for those who deserve it, it’s all about the benjamins, and they’ll think I’m bogus. People have different motivators. We all need regular feedback.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

He highlights the many and sometimes subtle mindsets that motivate grace into action. In the final section of the book, Baldoni presents pithy and practical chapters for practicing grace under pressure. At the end of the book, Baldoni summarizes his thoughts in a handbook and challenges us with a Grace Under Pressure Self-Assessment.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 17, 2020

It’s not easy to motivate without demoralizing, but you can compromise by concentrating on the good feedback toward the end while also finishing up with a clear reminder of what's wrong and how to fix it. Hell motivates us more than heaven. The fear of looking fat motivates us more to lose weight than the hope of looking slim.

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Leading Blog

JULY 29, 2021

Motivational speaker Les Brown on having an indomitable spirit: “There are negatively charged people who allow events to control their lives, and there are positively charged people who remain in control of their lives no matter what life throws at them. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Motivating Leaders: Encourage them to give their best. Don’t motivate. I try to inspire people and help them find their own motivations. That means I must first find my own motivations and model the behavior I want to see in the people I lead. What Maxwell is talking about is humility.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Moawad's motivational approach is elegant but refreshingly simple: He replaces hardwired negativity, the kind of defeatist mindset that's nearly everybody's default, with what he calls "neutral thinking." The Motive : Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities by Patrick Lencioni.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

Fear is a fine short-term motivator but a poor long-term one. Paul Zak on how fear-based leadership undermines our goals and dumbs us down: “The science shows that fear-based management is a losing proposition because people acclimate to fear quickly.

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Leading Blog

MAY 27, 2021

In either case, people feel overcontrolled and unfulfilled—which invariably damages motivation. Teresa Amabile on how to kill creativity: “Organizations routinely kill creativity with fake deadlines or impossibly tight ones. The former create distrust and the latter cause burnout. Moreover, creativity often takes time.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Moving outside your traditional comfort zone of achievement requires substantial motivation and sacrifice, but it’s a necessary discipline.”. Source: Harvard Business Review, The Making of an Expert. * * *. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

Performance psychologist Jim Loehr on motivated reasoning: “The facts are facts, but we ignore, alter, or otherwise twist them to allow us to continue doing what we are doing. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

When offered in the spirit of improvement and shared success, constructive feedback cultivates an environment where team members feel valued, respected, and motivated to contribute their best. Avoid making guesses about someone’s motivations or intentions.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 10, 2021

To maintain that motivation to change, you will need to consider other obstacles that will tempt you to quit. Since our peers heavily influence our choices, hanging out with people who are doing what we want to do provides some motivation and accountability. If you are doing poorly, the disruption can work to your advantage.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

That motivates me to this day. The Best Ways to Motivate People Effectively, Without Authority by @LollyDaskal. Shake Shack's Danny Meyer changed the restaurant industry by breaking all the rules. If we climb that mountain, could we potentially climb one that's a little steeper or a little bit higher? by @WScottCochrane. MarkDMcKinney.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2020

Source: Take the Lead : Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You. * * *. Successful leaders understand that it we don’t lead consciously, it’s easy to repeat patterns that could be keeping us from achieving the results we are hoping for. The toughest person you will ever lead is yourself.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

It motivates individuals and organizations to commit to achieving the overall goal — no matter the number of roadblocks that get in the way. A powerful vision creates the will to make change happen and harnesses the energy that will be needed. It inspires action and recruits the people and resources needed for new perspectives and ideas.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

VIDEO SHORT: April 29, 2019 Monday Motivation @HighPointU @NidoQubein The more you celebrate your life the more there is to in your life to celebrate. How Executives Can Inspire A Culture That Motivates Millennial Sales Leaders by @DanitaBye. Cross-Cultural Leadership: How to Avoid Making People Lose Face by Aad Boot @LeadershipWatch.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2018

So what are the subtle cues that motivate people to work for us? If we feel we are not making an impact, we are likely to lose motivation. As a leader, “helping people see the impact of their work—their help—is one of the most important motivators you can wield.”. It makes them feel good too—unless they feel compelled to help.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Keep in mind, if there is no heat—if people don’t feel uncomfortable—there is no motivation to engage and change. “Because there are many ways to look at a problem or challenge, engaging others—especially those who have different perspectives and share different values—illuminates the situation.” You have to manage the heat.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

Reframe tools enable and strengthen a perspective shift, motivating you to look creatively for all the possibilities and to believe in an upside that you can’t see yet. While some of the tools overlap, they divide them into four categories: Reframe , Do , Sustain , and.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

When the solution to a problem isn’t evident, and others don’t seem motivated to investigate one, a sense of futility can set in. Here are common obstacles to our ability to have a +influence, along with how to minimize their interference: 1.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2023

Accountability motivates. We face the uncertainty, the discomfort, and doubt about our new potential. It’s a rollercoaster of emotions. You will never be ready. Control what you can control and take the first step. Much of the fear and anxiety that comes from all of the external voices.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Effective human leaders do not lose sight that the point of being authentic and vulnerable is to support, encourage, and motivate people by creating and strengthening human connections. What is the message you are trying to share? It is helpful? A key question.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Imagine the point as a motivational poster in their offices or cubicles. Is this communication “need to know” or simply “neat to know”? Scrutinize your point to make sure it isn’t trivial or tangential to your team’s work. Am I emphasizing the “why”—how this point impacts their professional lives?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As a result, pessimism snowballs, motivation flags, concentration suffers, and it becomes harder to make a decision. Neural connections between memories with similar emotional color are activated even when we think about depressing incidents that have no apparent relationship to those memories.

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