Motivation = Great Results

Without motivated employees, any manager or leader will find it a lot harder to get the true results and the real potential they expect from their team. 

Any person or team can produce a reasonable standard of work without having great motivation, but to exceed the expectations and achieve great results in a business it is essential to have everyone extremely well motivated. 

Without the correct motivation it will always be difficult to produce top quality results.....because an absence of enthusiasm will result in flawed results.

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it" Dwight D. Eisenhower:

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily" Zig Ziglar

Expectancy Theory of Motivation.

Victor Vroom is a much-respected professor and researcher in the business world, and works at the Yale Business School as well as serving as a consultant for some of the world’s most successful companies. 

This elevated status is due in no small part to his expectancy theory of motivation, which addresses the reasons why people follow the path that they do within corporations. 

His proposition was that behavior results from choices made by the individual where the choice exists to do something else. The underlying truth in this theory is that people will do what works out best for them, the important element is the outcome.
 
Vroom worked on this theory with fellow business scientists Edward Lawler and Lyman Porter. 

The theory dates back to 1964 and is still widely used by professors. 

While the process is characterized as Effort, Performance, Outcome, and more specifically as E>P (increased Effort leads to a greater Performance) and...P>O (increased Performance brings a better Outcome) he takes notice of the fact that greater effort will not happen all by itself. 

What makes a satisfactory outcome for one individual may not necessarily work for another. 

People in the workplace are individuals and behave in different ways but equally, all of these people, and others, play a major part in making up a workplace. 

"The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different"  Rick Pitino 

Always Think Positive

Do they come with batteries included?....are they self motivated...are they positive?..One of the age-old ways of determining how a person views a situation is asking them if the glass is half full....or half empty.

Many pessimists will reply the glass is half empty while opportunists will see the glass as half full. Even if you have one pessimist in a group it can hinder everyone else’s positive attitude, so it is important to engage everyone within your organisation in positive thinking. 

When everyone avoids criticism and implements the ‘can do attitude’, it not only creates a pleasant work environment for everyone.....employees begin to feel better about themselves and take pride in their work.

Words from the Wise

"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same". Francesca Reigler

Batteries Included !!!

Andrew Carnegie said it best with his quote:

 “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” 

Self-motivation is an essential part of excelling in life.....you must learn to motivate yourself because you cannot depend on others around you to do it for you....you have to know how to encourage yourself and how to remain positive at all times regardless of how a situation appears.

There are several keys to building self-motivation.....you have to work towards a cause....create your own personal goals....but don't compare yourself to others....make the conscious effort never to give up.....don’t live in your past failures....nor should you live in your past successes....but most of all utilize positive thinking.