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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

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You could gain access to the underlying motivators that drive a leader or employee to do their best work? It’s called motivational profiling. Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Dominant motivation driver.

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Pain VS Gain: How to Best Motivate Buyers to Buy

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He is credited with recognizing that people are motivated by their direction. This has been adopted in Educational Psychology where students, teachers, administrators and parents are recognized by these two motivational categories. You now know whether to use Pain or Gain to best motivate buyers to buy. What’s in this for you?

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Brain Science Secrets to Increasing Leadership Willpower

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It motivated me to learn how the brain works and its impact on our thoughts, emotions and behaviors. Such perfectionistic tendencies show up in micro-managing, “analysis paralysis” or unwillingness to delegate, thus further depleting a leader’s energy reserves. “Away From” Motivated Goals.

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The Accountable Leader: Developing the Right Mindset and Practices That Ignite Peak Performance (Part 3)

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Set goals that truly motivate and excite your employees. Most leaders overlook the missing ingredient that drives achievement — MOTIVATION. Employees must be motivated to “want” to achieve their goals. Old style’ skills and competencies job descriptions are poor predictors (or motivators) of future success.

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7 Leadership Questions That Will Move Your Needle in 2016

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When I work with leaders, one of the first things I want to know is the underlying motivation for a particular goal, decision, behavior or even emotion. This question can help uncover those motivations in 3 powerful ways: It forces you to chunk up, get out of the weeds and see your situation with a wider lens from a higher elevation.

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How to Rise to the Top of Your Leadership Game Through Emotional Mastery

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Fueling your confidence, passion and motivation on a daily basis that moves you to action. If you are depressed or fearful, you will experience low motivation, focus and/or productivity. Goals by themselves do not motivate actions. Values act like superchargers on our motivations. Strong values ignite strong motivation.

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Real Truths That Fuel Real Leaders

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All behavior is self-motivated. Your actions are motivated either to move toward something positive or away from something negative/painful. Real leaders are “toward” motivated. Mediocre leaders tend to be “away from” motivated, driven by negative beliefs or secondary gains. There is always the next horizon to reach.

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