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You cannot motivate anyone. Not sustainably.
Your job as a leader is to motivate your team and get them to deliver results.
While you can use monetary rewards and recognition, these turn out to be hygiene factors - their absence reduces motivation, but beyond a point, money or recognition does not motivate.
Success lies in helping people find and tap their intrinsic motivation. As a leader, you can create the conditions, and promote behaviours that help people motivate themselves.
Now on to 5 Ideas To Unleash Your Leadership and Career This Week
How To Pick Your Leadership Style
"The best leadership style is one that is appropriate to the situation and the individual involved."
There are a number of leadership styles that you can pick from. However, not one style is the best in every situation.
In this short post, I show you how to pick your leadership style by using the Skill-Will matrix, a simple tool that allows you to use the right mix of coaching and directing, lead people the way they want and need to be led.
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How To Stay Motivated
"On your success journey, you’re going to be uncomfortable, and staying motivated is one of the most difficult parts of achieving something great."
The ability to stay motivated irrespective of what is happening around them is a trait of all highly successful people.
In this article, Nathan Chai shares tips on how to stay motivated including: countdown from 5 and then act, bathe yourself in things that motivate you, and chunk down your goals.
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How Great Leaders Deal With Criticism
"Great leaders...deal with criticism constructively. They see it as a normal part of their role and they approach it with an open mind. They have a fundamental and positive impact on the change, precisely because they deal with criticism effectively.”
Today, leaders face an exponential rate of change coupled with high levels of complexity, which makes it inevitable that they will face criticism from all quarters.
In this article, Aad Boot shares how great leaders deal with criticism. The traits include: not taking it personally, using criticism as a fuel for improvement, and engaging critics and keeping them informed.
RELATED: How to Receive Feedback the Right Way
The Harsh Truth Of Personal Growth
" Most people mistakenly believe that happiness is the absence of a load. We want life to be easy, without challenge or difficulty. However, it is by having a load that we can have the traction needed to move forward in our lives"
Most people want growth, but they do not wish to assume any responsibility, or endure any hardship in the process.
In this inspiring article, Benjamin Hardy reminds us of the harsh truth of personal growth - that you cannot grow by opting for a life of ease, and the more extreme the difficulty the larger the growth
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How Introverts Can Network Effectively
"Networking is less like hunting and more like farming.” You could substitute “gardening,” but it’s the same idea. Hunting is very transactional, whereas farming or gardening are cyclical, ongoing. You’re weeding, you’re planting, you’re watering, you’re nurturing. That’s the nature of making connections that count in your network."
Introverts hate networking. It is not only difficult, it also seems phoney and transactional.
In this interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Karen Wickre shares how introverts can network effectively Her suggestions include staying in loose touch with people by finding small opportunities to reach out and using social channels and email to do so frictionlessly.
Personal branding is not about becoming famous.
Personal branding is about engaging with and proving your worth to the right people - those who can make your career goals come true.
The clearer you are about your audience, the easier it is to engage and influence them.
Global fame is not what you should aim for.
Be a superstar for the handful of people who truly matter.
Until next time!
Narayan
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