When it comes to motivation, this needs to be done through positive energy.
We need to create a positive image and motion towards that image.
When you try to motivate people away from their current situation it invariably requires you to tell them what their current situation is, which basically results in negative criticism.
This short video clip demonstrates perfectly how not to motivate your team.
“When you try to motivate people away from their current situation it invariably requires you to tell them what their current situation is, which basically results in negative criticism.” Would fully agree about the statement for the positive image. For the quoted part would raise a question – How individuals would understand that status quo is not so good for the entire organisation and themselves without knowing possible negative impact of keeping things as they are? From my perspective right balance of positive “future” and “neutral or negative” current would make sense, negative should be applied to situation and actions performed but not personalities of course, what do you think?
In this instance, the manager could have said, “come on guys we’re only 2-0 down, if we can look to improve just a little bit i am sure we can gets these”.
Obviously there is an implication that the team didn’t play well enough, but we need to encourage them to the next level and to improve, we cannot bully people to improvement.
Obviously some people react differently to different stimuli, but in general we need to encourage people, tell them how we can turn this around. If we can just step up our energy levels a little bit, improve the quality of our passing and tackling then i think we could maybe score a quick goal and then we are right back in the game, but with the momentum in our favor. Lets come out attack right from the start, lets take them by surprise. I believe we can win this, we’re just need to step it up and get an early goal.
I am convinced that this approach would have much better results.
Dear Gordon, many thanks for sharing your approach! It looks like we had two different cases in mind, If i understood correctly your’s is more likely referring to situations with “known issue” with perfect example of football team loosing the game whilst mine is mostly reflecting hidden or unconscious necessity in change which might be neither obvious nor recognized by the team. In any case absolutely agree with the need in courage and positive attitude! Thanks!
Are yes the happy under achiever syndrome, who needs to be woken up and moved to over achiever.
Yes this is tough and usually results in unhappy underachievers once you highlight their performance.
I think that can be handled in a look this is where we could be mode, but if that is perceived as criticism of current performance it will demotivate
thanks for the questions, interesting stuff
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