Motivation Shots from The Doc

Do you trust and believe in your staff? Successful Motivational Managers have the ‘trust programme’ well and truly installed in their brain.

Old style managers were programmed to believe that they couldn’t trust their people. That doesn’t mean they thought they were dishonest, just that they needed to constantly supervise their people to ensure they did the job properly. Sadly, many managers still see it that way today.

The Motivational Manager thinks the opposite, he or she believes and trusts their people to do the job and let’s them get on with it.

If you’ve got the old program, as I once did, then be prepared to change it. Because if your team members believe that you trust them to do the job, then it will have a huge positive effect on morale and on you achieving your outcomes.

Managers keep asking me – “How do I motivate my staff?” And the answer is – “You don’t motivate your staff; you create the environment in which they motivate themselves.”

Trusting your people to do their job goes a long way towards creating that environment.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Warren G. Bennis (1925-, American psychologist, management educator, and consultant)

Do you trust your team; let me know your thoughts