Team & Employee Motivation Guide

Wanted: Employee Motivation

Priceless: Infectious Enthusiasm

"How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it." Jim Valvano (Champion Basket Ball Coach)

Do you want an inspired, motivated and involved team?

Yes?

It starts with your own enthusiasm, clarity and purpose. And your ability to inspire people beyond what they believe they are capable of.

Above all you’ll need to be genuinely interested in the growth of people in your team.

Quick Peek

• Motivational vs. Inspirational
• Workplace Motivation
• Creating With Inspiration
• Motivational Concepts & Theories
• Motivational Activities & Techniques
• Motivational Speeches
• Motivational Speakers
• Funny Motivational Sayings

Motivational vs. Inspirational

Motivation is driven by external goals.In other words, you are motivated to take action towards an accomplishment you perceive to have a reward of some kind.

Inspiration comes from the Inside Out. Inspiration flows when you are guided by God/ Higher purpose/ Consciousness.

Motivation happens when you ask ’What do I want?’ and Inspiration happens when you ask as Eckardt Tolle suggest ‘What does Life want from me?’ If you want true employee motivation... start asking your team this question. 'What does life want from you? What does life want from this business? What does life want from this team?

Workplace Motivation

If employees are uninspired by personal and team purpose and mission, workplace motivation will be one big uphill sweat. Business culture often promotes sacrificing the individual over the business mission.

That’s all very well - but if the business mission has no connection or meaning for employees – their own drive will be for monetary reward or recognition. Both of which do not generate excellence. Invest more energy in finding team members who love the business vision and mission. You can not force someone into a mission that is not true for their spirit.

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Motivating Employees: Basic tips

Creating With Inspiration

You may hear writers say they need inspiration. Or artists that look for their muse. Creativity is not just about art. Even accountants create. In fact we create all the time, whether we know it or not……

...but inspired creation can NOT fail to grow any endeavour or team.

Motivational Concepts & Theories

Motivational concepts and theories are abundant from psychological schools of thought, to scientific, business and philosophical schools of thought to leadership gurus.

Motivational Activities & Techniques

You may be ready to build an inspired and motivated team. Perhaps you’re wondering what activities and techniques you can use before you call in ‘the expert’ to help you with employee motivation.

Some activities you could introduce are ‘vision’, ‘purpose’, ‘paradigm shifts and 'mental attitudes'; ‘self belief’, ‘self esteem', and ‘listening’; ‘inquiry’ and ‘discovery’; tapping into ‘talents’ and ‘strengths’; ‘celebrating wins’; and ‘acknowledging others’, ‘gratitude’ and ‘appreciation’.

Understand the link between motivation and emotion, and learn how to build new emotions.

Motivational Speeches

Use motivational speeches to model leadership, inspiration and confidence from the inside:

By getting your team to practise speeches exactly as the greats delivered them - your team members will transform themselves inwardly and outwardly. Plus the process of co-coaching each other will build team engagement all by itself.

Explore speeches by Steven Jobs, Martin Luther King, Mandela, Gandhi, Richard Branson, Jim Rohn, Oprah, James Ray and more.

Are you looking for motivational speakers to help you with employee motivation?

How do you choose the appropriate motivational keynote speaker for your team building event? First know what you want.

Are you looking for a practical motivational sales speaker or a humorous motivational speaker? Funny motivational speakers lighten up the audience which makes for better learning. But how do you know their humor is tasteful. There is nothing worse than bad jokes.

The best motivational speaker is not always the most famous. Famous people are brilliant at branding and selling. Does that mean their presentation is worth the price?

How do you negotiate price?

You may particularly want a woman motivational speaker or a sports person. Something that speaks to specific audience needs and the specific issues they are facing?

And who do we recommend?

Funny Motivational Sayings

Funny Motivational sayings and jokes around workplace motivation.

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