Leadership Influence and Motivation

Your ability to impact the thoughts, feelings, actions of others is Influence.

Your influence can get people to do things, it can be positive or negative. Your influence may be applied in a wide range of personal and professional settings across a myriad of interactions with other people. Influence generates a sense of expectation within another person, and often generates an unwitting compelled response to behave in a certain manner based upon your words or actions. The other person makes their own decisions, but those decisions are impacted by your influence.

To help enhance your influence over others, consider consistently asking questions rather than telling and making demands. This method of posing questions tends to spark more internal contemplation and reflection and may enable more personal attachment to decisions since questions are often more appealing than commands. Questions are beneficial in conversations, presentations, and emails as well.

When discussing Motivating people, we will be thinking of -
Instigating THEIR Enthusiasm … Unlocking THEIR Potential

Motivating tends to be in the form of getting people excited or interested in doing something different or new from their norm. Motivation s typically a short-term primer and Action Oriented.

It is the leader’s responsibility to foster the appropriate environment where people can flourish. When leaders influence and motivate their team members, they enable the team members to be their best selves, to manage themselves, and to excel.

Leaders set others on the right path. Leaders provide Direction, Alignment, Development that Motivates & Influences others to succeed.

A very productive starting point when leaders feel they need to motivate others is to simply:

1. Ask what challenges they are facing.

2. Offer the appropriate support to overcome the challenge.

3. Provide a Reason to Perform - communicate the big picture, what’s really trying to be achieved, and how the employee fits into that process. Articulate the value added, the purpose, the meaningfulness of the work.