Team Motivator

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You won’t find Motivation 101 in most business schools, yet the ability to motivate your team is one of the most important skills a project leader must possess. Here are six strategies —no speeches required — to unite and engage your team.

Many project leaders are continually frustrated by their team’s performance and low morale and engagement. The answer doesn’t involve fancy technology, a new piece of equipment, or extensive R&D.  In fact, the answer lies in a basic human emotion: motivation.

Unfortunately, motivational speeches don’t work. But leaders who motivate do. Now, more than ever, a leader’s job is to motivate and rally the team through challenging times. You can’t outsource motivation. It is the leaders and managers who must motivate.

Most business leaders want to take the emotion out of business, but that is a huge mistake. When fear and negativity are the primary emotions people in your organization are feeling, you have to counter that with an even more powerful emotion, like faith, belief, and optimism. And your success in that depends on your ability to motivate.

Motivation has long been considered a soft skill that was hard to quantify, so most companies left it up to annual meetings and inspiring rallies to keep their employees fired up. But what leaders are realizing is that it’s quickly …

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