25 Ways To Motivate People
1. Know where motivation come from
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
2. Keep giving feedback
The failure to give appropriate and timely feedback is the most extreme cruelty that we can inflict on any human being.
3. Know your owners and victims
Those who follow the part of themselves that is great will become small.
4. Put your hose away
Wise leaders and high achievers come to understand that they can’t hope to eliminate problems and wouldn’t want to.
5. Get the picture
People cannot be managed….
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
6. Manage agreements, not people
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
7. Enjoy the art of confrontation
To command is to serve, nothing more, and nothing less.
8. Play both good cop and bad cop
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
9. Stop cuddling up
I never gave them hell, I just tell the truth and they think its hell
10. Motivate by doing
People can be divided into two classes : those who go ahead and do something, and those people who sit still and inquire, why wasn’t it dare the other way;
11. Use positive reinforcement
The first duty of a leader is optimism. How does your subordinate feel after meeting with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.
12. Use 10 minutes well
Man must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind him to the fact that each moment of his life is a miracle and a mystery.
13. To motivate your people, first just relax
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew
14. Don’t throw the quit switch
Most people succeed because they are determined to people of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit.
15. Play it lightly
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. Then you develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
16. Give power to the other person
When I’m getting ready to persuade a person, I spend one third of the time thinking about myself, what I’m going to say and two-thirds of the time thinking about him and what he is going to say.
17. Use the power of deadlines
The best way to predict the future is to create it
18. Translate worry into concern
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage
19. Let your mind rule your heart
If you don’t think bout the future, you won’t have one
20. Make it happen today
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?
21. Create a vision
The reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
22. Stop looking over your shoulder
Courage is the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear
23. Don’t change yourself
It takes a tremendous act of courage to admit yourself that you are not defective in any way whatsoever.
24. Stop pushing
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish, push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
25. Come from the future
The very essence of leadership is that you have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
