The Second Great Obstacle to Motivating Others

1
The Second Great Obstacle to Motivating Others
2
Introduction

• Environment must contain 3 ingredients
• M.O.I.
• Motivation
• The trophies or trouble, the push or pull that
  moves the people involved
• Ways to Motivate Others

3
Question?

• When Im in charge of a team that has a task to
  do, and the success of the task is threatened, I
  am likely to
• A. Put the task ahead of the people
• B. Put the people ahead of the task
• C. Balance the People and the task
• D. Escape from the situation
• E. None of the above

4
Agenda

• Two Styles of Motivating People
• Task Oriented
• People Oriented
• 10 Lessons
• Task Oriented
• People Oriented
• Task / People Dichotomy
• Summary

5
Vocabulary

• Task-Oriented Style
• Require everyone to do what is necessary to
  complete the task.
• People-Oriented Style
• Share with your employees the need for the task.

6
Lessons for Task Oriented Leaders

• 1 When Survival is concerned
• there is no choice but to put people first.
• 2 Non-technical job, lead others by fear.
• 3 Technical backgrounds can convert tasks
• 4 No care for people, no people to lead.
• Unless followers have no choice.

7
Lessons for People Oriented Leaders

• 5 No amount of caring for people will hold
  your audience if you have nothing to offer
  but pretend you do.

8
Lessons on How to Balance the People Task
Oriented Styles

• 6 Task Oriented leaders tend to
  overestimate their own accomplishments.
• 7 Very little work justifies sacrificing
  people.
• 8 When work is complex, no leader can be
  absolutely sure that plans wont fail.
• 9 Everybodys humanness must be at the
  forefront.
• 10 If you are a leader, the people are your
  work.

9
Second Great Obstacle to Being a Successful
Motivator

• The belief in the Task/People Dichotomy
• Tasks are not as real as people

10
Answer to Question?

• When Im in charge of a team that has a task to
  do, and the success of the task is threatened, I
  am likely to

• A. Put the task ahead of the people
• B. Put the people ahead of the task
• C. Balance the People and the task
• D. Escape from the situation

• E. None of the above

11
Summary

• Two Styles of Motivating People
• Task Oriented
• People Oriented
• 10 Lessons
• Task Oriented
• People Oriented
• Understanding the Balance
• Task / People Dichotomy

12
Questions

• When Im finished with them, do they care less
  about the subject?
• Far and away the best prize that life offers
• is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
• Teddy Roosevelt