Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

It is unlikely that you will be able to inspire, arouse, excite or motivate people unless you can show them who you are, what you stand for, and what you can and cannot do.”. . “Your colleagues — potential followers — have a simple but basic need: They want to be led by a person, not by a corporate apparatchik.” . “It

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 1, 2017

A real shot of motivation and inspiration that, if delivered at the right time and place, can spur your team to the pinnacle of success. It’s a leadership wonder drug of 5 simple words that can make a huge difference in the workplace.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

It was a lively chat, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Here are a couple of pics from our recording session (thanks Pagatim studios in SE Portland).

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 24, 2015

They’re not particularly happy memories, but with the benefit of hindsight I can certainly say they were extremely motivational – that is, events that pushed me out of one place, and just as forcefully towards another. It was a fire of motivation to “ show those folks a thing or two ” down the road.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

It’s really a matter of giving meaning to the work that each person does, which leads to happier, more motivated, and more productive teammates. There’s typically a strong temptation to just step on the accelerator and get the bus moving. But successful leaders must resist that temptation.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

But before we go charging up that hill, we need to take a very necessary first step – to make sure the rest of the team is behind us, aligned, motivated, and in tune with the mission of the company.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 6, 2018

I’ve spent a long career seeing countless new supervisors struggling mightily with the idea of actually “managing” a staff – setting priorities, communicating the company vision, motivating, holding people accountable, and delivering the necessary coaching and corrections.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 10, 2013

Without it, you’ll have less happy, less motivated, and less productive teammates. It truly is “the most powerful thing there is” The most important question a leader can EVER answer is “ Why ?” ” Context is everything in a workplace. Never underestimate the importance of non-verbal communication.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

We need to be beyond just casually interested in their lives, their perspectives, and their motivations. Sure, eventually those distinctions will become clear, and the bosses must do their jobs and the staff must do theirs, but only after the human connection is made. We need to know as many teammates’ names as possible.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 17, 2011

Most self-motivated people know this in our guts – I’m one of those people. Inertia is cripplin g&#.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

This “follow the pack” mentality was a lot of my motivation to skip vacations and stay very late at the office – EVERYONE else, including my boss, was doing it.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 18, 2011

When these people are properly trained, motivated and given the appropriate responsibility, something really cool happens. They are the ones that need to be able to make “on the fly&# adjustments to make sure the company objectives are being met. Which in our case, was “ grow, serve, and keep our customers&#.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

They can also give leaders the courage to make the “letting go” decisions, because the heart also can be motivated by fear, and the more clearly and convincingly the evidence is compiled and presented, the less fearful of the consequences the leader will be.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 2, 2013

In the workplace, your respect translates to a more motivated and inspired teammate, because they respect you. The bonus of all this applies both in the espresso bar AND the workplace – that personal connection leads to better performance. At the espresso bar, your respect translates to higher quality service, because they respect you.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 22, 2013

In a “no-boss” workplace, how do those tangible means get determined? Is it a factor of how many projects the worker successfully pitches?

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 16, 2013

“Rejection: Get Used to It” - D’Wayne Edwards , founder, PENSOLE Academy of Footwear Design , who keeps a “rejection wall” to motivate his passion to mentor and teach others to realize their dreams in the footwear design industry.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 8, 2013

And here’s another uptick – humans generally love the competitive aspect of things like scoreboards, and so they typically add another layer of peer-influenced motivation. Hold everyone, and yourself, accountable to the results by constant monitoring and feedback. Once 1-3 is done the work really begins.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Have you ever been at a loss to identify the motivations of a team member or peer, or felt like they were from a different planet? Over the coming weeks we’ll explore additional root causes, motivations, tactics, and strategies to help you get the most out of your people and create a rewarding environment for your team.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 26, 2011

If you’re thinking it’s less a matter of numbers and metrics, and more a matter of inspiration and motivation, you’re on the right track. A leader can, and should, take that “rebirth” energy and channel it into the critical momentum that will carry over into the rest of the year. How can we do this?

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Believe me, there is nothing better, and more motivating, than for a team to hit a “best ever” one year, raise the target the next year, and then hit it again.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 5, 2016

As it turned out, my boss relished those “millisecond” motivation boosts – in fact, he had a poster in one of his offices that later cemented my banishment of “can’t” from my own vocabulary. Yes, the plan was a challenge, no question.But to summarily dismiss it with that word – well, that was a word too far. It can’t be done”.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Synthesize Goals - Now that you’ve studied the business/project plan (see above), you need to reduce it to “bite sized” pieces so it can be effectively communicated throughout the organization.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 22, 2011

You’ve put in a lot of hours process-building, training, goal-setting, and motivating. You’ve worked hard to build the right team. But the wheels still aren’t turning. Productivity is lagging. Something’s wrong. There’s an undercurrent of dissatisfaction that is palpable.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 12, 2010

We need to be interested in their lives, their perspectives, and their motivations. Sure, eventually those distinctions will become clear, and the bosses must do their jobs and the staff must do theirs, but only after the human connection is made. We need to know as many staff members names as possible.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

You’ve put in a ton of hours process-building, training, goal-setting, motivating, and inspiring. You’ve worked really, really hard to build a great team. But the wheels still aren’t turning. Productivity is lagging. Something’s wrong. There’s an undercurrent of dissatisfaction that is palpable. Key members of your team start leaving.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

“Because of the situation, we coasted for a good year – it was OK, but we weren’t making any more forward progress, and the employees that were still with us at the time, they came to us and said ‘we need you to inspire us – we need you to show us that the company is going somewhere, in order for us to want to stick around and have it be our (..)

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 18, 2015

What she lacked during those meetings was sufficient motivation—sufficient caring– that would trigger her courage. As the question I asked Melissa demonstrated, she had the potential to face her fears and tackle a tough situation. She didn’t lack courage. How does that work? It isn’t obvious that we can choose what we care about.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 3, 2010

I’ve been able to motivate employees much better by listening to their ideas, and even gripes, and genuinely assuring them that their voice is being heard, even if what they are saying is not interesting or in the end helpful. And like you, it took me a while to figure out the real motivations behind chronic tardiness.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 21, 2013

Their leader was a little wary of me and my motives, but nevertheless allowed me to address the group at their house. So we decided to approach one of the fringe fraternities, a group that had their house outside campus. They were an interesting cross section of folks who just didn’t fit in with the mainstream.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 9, 2015

This elementary part of humanity is a powerful motivator, and most of the time you don’t even realize it. During a whole process of preparing for and delivering a presentation to executive management, I realized that a great deal of what was driving me to do a good job was similar to how I would want to please my parents as a child.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 5, 2015

Was this just another of my crazy ideas that would make people shake their heads and question my methods and motives? This is that something extra you need in the field. THIS is what’s missing – more cowbell! Was it nuts to think that a t-shirt could make a difference, especially this one?

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Seeing these kind of things always brings to mind my own experiences with bosses who have used these kind of “rants&# as part of their motivational repertoire. Eric November 19, 2010 at 2:45 pm Question: what motivates you that comes from such interactions? They can be effective, as was demonstrated by Brady.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Listen more and se and feel the meaning and motivation behind the conversation. They believe that a base salary pays the bills, whereas variable compensation, including earnings before interest, taxes, dividends and amortization (EBITDA)-based bonuses, motivates employees to challenge themselves and increase their contribution to the ?rm

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 20, 2010

The motivational forces that pull us toward leadership do not disappear after the role is secured – in fact, our motivations are as important as any action we take when it comes to determining the success or failure of our teams. That’s my motivation. Your actions will betray whatever words you use to deny it. What about you?

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 10, 2010

It’s interpreted this way: Anthems tap into brain structures tied to motivation, reward, and emotion. Motivation, reward, and emotion. Find those things that truly motivate you. (I’d like to say it was a “no-brainer&# to understand, but that’s truly a pun too far.) Make your life one big anthem.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 10, 2011

We also want our words to inspire and motivate. As leaders we do a lot of thinking about what we say and how we say it – we want to make sure our messages and directions are understood. So we tend to focus on the larger words – the action verbs, the descriptive adjectives, or the key nouns that will get the job done.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Leaders As Diplomats: A Short Course in Cross-Functional Communication by Starbucker on September 26, 2010 Imagine this scenario: You have assembled a crack team that is highly motivated, efficient, and effective.

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