Motivation and Team Building in the Workplace
Is Motivation Truly Motivation
All of us are born with motivation. It’s embedded within us. In fact, all of us have our own unique style of motivation and are driven by it each day. However, pop-psychology along with the sales training industry has decide for us what motivation is and have done so based upon their own biased research. We’ve all paid a price for the confusion, but employees and their managers more so. The reason, managers expect that these emotional seminars to create long term life changes within their employees. Seminars like these are costly and only make a difference in the short term. What they have done is confused enthusiasm for motivation. How can enthusiasm be defined?
Enthusiasm is defined as fervor, zeal, explosive eagerness, rapturous intensity, and intense conviction or worthiness. It is a temporary emotion. Temporary in the sense that it can only be sustained for a brief period of time until it is either replaced by another emotion or a sustained feeling. (See the article: “The Difference Between Emotions and Feelings” for more info.) Think about how long a person can sustain laughter, or how long it last when a person “Flips out”? How long can you cry? How long can one remain in a excited or thrilled state?
That is why you can go to any number of so called “motivational seminars” get really “pumped” only to have that enthusiasm and energy fade away after just a few days. What you truly experience at such seminars is a form of social hysteria, albeit in a positive form but nevertheless very transient.”Enthusiasm Seminars” should be the name for these types of events.
Employee Motivation
Motivation in the work place can become a matter of struggle and turmoil. It often starts with the gross profit numbers. Profits are down and a company looks internally for the cause. Upper management gets leaned on and squeezes middle management who then pressures lower management who in turn accuse employees of not having enough motivation.The solution? A motivational (enthusiasm) seminar or program to get everyone excited and hopefully an increase in profits.
And because of that, motivation is managed as if it were a learned skill of “doing”(See the article: “What is Motivation” for a more in depth discussion of true motivation). However, with such training, a downward spiral soon begins that is fraught with confusion, distress, and self sabotage. “Motivational (Enthusiasm) Seminars” only have temporary effects. You can only accommodate your enthusiasm temporarily. Inevitability your enthusiasm wanes. When this occurs you’ll generally ask yourself: “What’s wrong with me?Lack of confidence and doubt follows as the stress builds. Does this sound familiar to you? Understand that there is nothing wrong with you and there is nothing to fix. Your behavior would be an expression of normalicy. The issue resides within our societies less than accurate comprehension of what motivation truly is. Motivation can’t be a learned skill. It is naturally present. It is the expression of your state of “being”. Natural motivation drives you to leave your bed each morning. There is a significant need for you to express your unique existence to the world.
Anyone who teaches motivation as a “learned skill of doing,” exhibits their lack of knowledge on the basic functions of motivation. This is the reason why so many people are confused about motivation and why pop-psychology continues to design inherently flawed testing methods, books, seminars, and workshops which sadly point people down the wrong path. That being said, some will find value in the information but only uniquely motivating to them.
Westernized cultures (Particularly Americans), live in a capitalistic society that cannot afford to define motivation as simply a state of “being”. That’s the reason why Motivational Gurus seldom use Mother Teresa, a fine example of natural, authentic motivation, to exemplify what it means to be motivated. From their viewpoint, there is no profit in using her as an example motivation.
The Ultimate Answer to Employee Motivation in the Workplace
The answer to employee motivation in the workplace is natural and always effective. There is no need to seek out motivation because it is already present if you enjoy what you do for work. If any professional feels the need to attend a “Motivational Seminar,” they should seriously consider another profession. Imagine for a moment that your surgeon is running late to your pre-surgery consultation because he or she has yet to return from a “motivational seminar”. How may you feel? For that matter, what might you do? Would you still go through with the surgery with this person at the helm?
Motivation comes naturally to each of us from a deep level within. No one should have to go out and find their motivation. Your motivation is not somewhere out there, it’s intrinsic, It’s within you. Ask yourself why plumbers, carpenters, electricians, doctors, computer technicians, and in fact most professionals do not have a desperate need to attend motivational seminars in order to get fired up to do their job.
The real secret to all this, is to discover the exact style of motivation you already posses. We call this “Your Life Theme“. It is as if, you were given a unique set of prescription glasses through which you see a reality all your own. It is this prescription which dictates how you should live life and what career you should pursue. Discovering it and learning how it guides you is vital in creating meaningful, sustainable change in your personal and business life.
It is through discovering who employees are at their very core that management will be able to generate natural and effective motivation in the workplace. Managers who discover their “Life Theme” as well as that of their employees, are capable of building dynamic, highly productive and profitable teams where everyone has a greater sense of fulfillment and sustained cooperation. Management will also know which projects should be delegated to which individuals in order to attain the highest level of productivity. Each person will be able to maximize their self-expression with each project, completely by-passing the typical, costly debating and negotiating process. No longer will ego-battles slow down production and cause inner-office struggle. This is the future of business. Discover Your Life Theme.
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