Motivation Shots from The Doc

If you are to become better at motivating your team, particularly the difficult people; then you’re going to need a lot of courage. You need courage to run your own mind, to question and possibly change your behaviour programmes.

As well as challenging your own programming, you’re going to need courage to deal with difficult situations in your team. You need the courage to sometimes say “no” and still keep the team motivated. In your communications with your manager, you’ll often need the courage to stand up for what you believe to be right.

I once had a manager say to me – “Alan, I’m going to promote this guy from another department into your sales team.” Coolly and calmly, I informed my manager that I’d interviewed this individual and I didn’t think he was suitable for my sales team.

I reminded my manager that in order to produce the results he required, I needed to be sure that I had the best people for the job in my team. After a bit of wrangling I won this particular ‘discussion’ but as we all know, you don’t win them all. However you must have the courage to try.

I read somewhere that, “winners make mistakes but losers never do.” That’s because winners have the courage to try and they know they’ll make mistakes; however that’s how they learn and move forward.

Your success in motivating your team is highly dependant on your ability to stand up for what you believe in.

Have courage; give me your comments, tell me what you think!

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