TRY TO MOTIVATE PEOPLE

Since motivation comes in all shapes and sizes, everyone does not get motivated in the same way. This has its difficulties. Imagine you are a teacher handling 20 students.

These are all different students, students with different cultures and economic backgrounds. They react to situations in different ways. They think differently. They offer different solutions to a common problem.

What can you do to motive and inspire these different types of people? You have to look for the common thread that works for all.

Political Motivation

But, when you are managing a crowd of people as such like political leaders manage a whole nation full of people and even maintain good foreign relations, how do you make sure that your motivation does not fall flat on some of them.

Motivating people is a highly difficult job, and in this blog, you shall see that perhaps the best way to motivate people is to not go about it in an individualistic manner.

If you try to give a carrot to each person individually, it might take a lot of time and effort as well. 

But, if you keep a bag of carrots for everyone to take from, it becomes easier. 

Even the people who do not like carrots will understand that you have given them something, and they will feel good about it.

There are obviously different approaches to motivating at a collective level as well. 

Sometimes, a highly charged speech of gratitude is all that would be needed. 

Sometimes, the incentives need to be more material in nature.

Motivating In Collective Manner

In this blog, I am trying to explore the best ways of motivating people are, on an individual basis and in a collective manner. 

Try and find that one common element that everyone is looking for and use that as a motivational tool.

The most common visual you think of motivation should be done in the form of rewards or punishment to get the job done or to make some behavioral change. 

But, today, as we learn more and more about people and human behavior we know that the task is far more complex than that. There are several things that you can do and others that are a complete no.

Let us start with the latter. You should never threaten a person with bad behavior to get something done.

Nothing is more guaranteed to get their backs up and to achieve the exact opposite results. Here are quite a few positive and useful tips on how to motivate people.

Emotion

Appeal to their love for acquiring things by providing concrete rewards, in the form of cash, kind, or recognition.

Rewarding Employee

Let them know in advance if you are going to reward performance and make it amply clear what it is that is expected out of them. 

Then, when they deliver the results make sure you keep your word, reward them as per your promise.

Incentives

Performance Incentive

Performance incentives are a very powerful tool and if you treat your employees fairly they will go the extra mile for you.

Make sure that your program is well structured, well communicated, and well understood throughout the company.

Lend Them an Ear...Always

Listening Employee

Always listen to your people and treat them with respect and kindness. Being arrogant and listening only to your own voice is as good as being blind and deaf. Be fair but firm. 

People also enjoy working with other people and when positive energy flows, it multiplies as the load is shared and work becomes fun.

Feed Them Back

Supporting Employee

Always, but always recognize achievement preferably in public. Give people space to produce results. 

Give them the tools and the resources and support them in their endeavors in every way you can. All these are factors that will motivate them to give you back in kind.

Communicating Employee

Communicate All The Time 

Ultimately, always keep the channels of communication open. This will enable you to learn of potential problems at an early stage and to fix them before the problem gets out of hand.

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