Preface
Team motivation can be a challenge in today's fast-paced world, but it can also be one of the most rewarding aspects of your job. Motivate Your Team in 30 Days is an interactive book with self-discovery exercises and engagement and empowerment strategies that equip leaders to motivate their teams and gain team and individual commitment.
The book makes use of advanced adult learning techniques as it leads you step by step into the exercises and the means of determining and fulfilling common goals. The end result—a highly effective leader with a high performing, loyal, and results-oriented team.
For the next 30 days, you will be engaged in exercises each day of your work week. Naturally, a big part of the learning process is to first apply it to your personal life, and then to share it with your team. It is in the sharing that the learning becomes part of you, and it is in the giving that you gain.
The key is to stay disciplined and do each day's activity as it comes up, and by doing so, we guarantee that you will have a highly motivated team one month after you start the process.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Week 1 – Motivating Yourself Before Others
In this chapter you learn to look inwards and answer questions that will help you discover the following:
Your personal and professional dreams and desires
What motivates and demotivates you, along with positive and negative messages that have motivated you in the past
Your values, strengths, and weaknesses
How to improve via a personal evaluation of yourself in eight key areas of your life
Your limiting beliefs, and how to replace them with the opposite beliefs
How to improve your attitude
What your fears are and how to overcome them
How to accept failure as a learning opportunity
Chapter 2, Week 2 – Preparing to Facilitate a Team Effectiveness Meeting
In this chapter you will learn about the following:
Decision-making styles, and how you should proceed with decision making moving forward
What is and what is not under your control, and how to facilitate solutions by asking questions, and the types of questions to ask
Facilitator behaviors and how to use them to run effective team meetings
The importance of engaging the team in problem solving through the use of brainstorming and presenting draft solutions, enabling partnership and ownership
How to develop an owner's mentality by treating your job as your business and inviting others to take part-ownership by engaging them in draft solutions
How to facilitate a team effectiveness exercise, with step-by-step instructions
Chapter 3, Week 3 – Facilitating the Team Effectiveness Day
In this chapter you will learn the following:
The motivating factors in the workplace from a supervisor's point of view, and how different it is from an employee's point of view
How to present these motivating factors to your team, and help them to discover the root cause and the solution to the problem
About change, how people react to change, what you can do to ease the change process, and how you can engage the team to successfully implement the change
To facilitate your team through a team effectiveness day
To demonstrate a quick follow-up to the meeting, while learning from evaluations and individual feedback
Chapter 4, Week 4 – What Do You and Your Team Want?
In this chapter you will take the time to discover the following:
What your dreams, desires, and life expectations are
What your strengths and weaknesses are and decide where you should focus
How to facilitate a team exercise where everyone gets to know each other's strengths, weaknesses, and perceptions
How to facilitate a dream team exercise
How to conduct performance reviews that will inspire team members
Chapter 5, Week 5 – Turning Those Desires into Achievable Goals
In this chapter you will learn to do the following:
Organize your dreams by grouping, categorizing, and prioritizing them into time periods
Determine the price you are willing to pay to make each of your dreams a reality in terms of time, effort, relationships, habits, career, money, and other considerations
Facilitate another half-day meeting with your team in which you finalize a team vision and prepare them to create their own personal list of dreams and how to group, categorize, and prioritize them into time periods and to have them prepare for discussion in a one-on-one performance review meeting
Turn your dreams into S.M.A.R.T. goals
Learn about commitment to yourself, and how to get commitment from others through four basic principles
Chapter 6, Week 6 – Turning Goals into Reality
In this chapter you learn how to do the following:
Conduct motivating and inspiring performance reviews
Lead by taking and demonstrating responsive action
Facilitate another half-day team meeting based on the Goal log
Use the Soar chart and the Monthly Monitor chart to maintain focus and track progress
How to be thankful and develop a daily attitude of gratitude
Who this book is for
Motivate Your Team in 30 Days is the ideal book for leaders who want to engage and empower themselves and others to a higher level of self-discipline and self-motivation, resulting in improved productivity and performance.
Leadership is about people. Take care of your people and your people will take care of your bottom line. Dave and Bob Urichuck.
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