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You will motivate your staff if you help them work toward fulfilling their potential at a level they are capable of becoming.

This is where the difficulty often lies for many managers – if staff are not motivated enough they may fail to reach their true potential.

Pushed too far beyond their capability and they become de-motivated and will often complain to others of bullying taking place at work.

Successful motivation is achieved when people perform well whilst still within their limitations. This is achieved when they are productive and appear to do be doing so with relative ease.

Motivation is something that is an essential part of your people’s day-to-day lives. It provides the 'get up and go' that helps them get out of bed in the morning and look forward to their day at work. Yes, you did read that right!

People can be conditioned to enjoy work and look forward to helping you and your company succeed. If members of your staff have a negative attitude they need to be taught how to acquire a positive one. People often need to be motivated to adopt and then display a positive attitude.

When initiating change management training, make sure you also supply the necessary motivation. Without the inspiration to implement improvement, little will change. Your staff needs to be motivated to give them an unswerving faith that they can succeed above and beyond their own often-mundane expectations.

The taking of some intended action by a motivator initially precipitates motivation in others. Done correctly it will create a visible energy, which in turn drives staff forward. It can also become contagious, as other staff members ‘catch’ the appropriate, desired behaviour.

Take that action today. The old mantra, ‘I’ll start tomorrow’ doesn’t work. Tomorrow never comes as it always refers to sometime in the future.

To motivate is too important to be left for the unforeseeable future. Motivation is the most important factor in the whole concept of effective, business management. It is worthy of substantial investment – general training is not enough.

Whereas the type of personality your staff displays in the work environment may represent the way they behave, their level of motivation is directly related to why they behave in that particular way.

Motivation is a state of mind that is influenced by our working environment and those people we work with. The saying ‘one bad apple will rot the barrel’ is as true in the work environment as it is in any other walk of life. One un-motivated individual in an organisation is like a cancer that needs to be treated or cut out.

Staff who declare ‘This is just the way I am. I can’t change’ are mistaken. They choose their behaviour and therefore they can be motivated to change such behaviour for the better. Motivation is not a trait but a thought pattern. It is initially formed in the subconscious part of the brain and goes on to effect conscious thought. As stage hypnotists know, and continuously demonstrate, the subconscious mind can be manipulated.

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