1001
ways to inspire your organization, your team and yourself
–David E.Rye
This
book is all about what its Title says
Humans can be
classified into four categories
Type1:
Inspirational: Leaders, bit of arrogant, Goal Oriented
Type2:
Creative: Emotional team members
Type3:
Followers and conflict avoiders
Type4:
Uncommitted and jovial
First
and foremost thing to inspire is , to know to which type you and people
around you belong to. Let us take a look at how to motivate others. On a day to
day basis, we interact with many people around. Everything that we speak, everything
that we do and everything we express is not haphazard. Everything has a hidden
motive. All the actions that we do are inter related, our actions somehow would
have an impact either positively or negatively. There is no such thing called,
unplanned or without consequence. Our day to day actions and our interactions
with people around decide our path and finally destination of ours. So, it is
every important to understand people around so that you can help them and can
seek help to reach destination. Every
type of person can be motivated if we can understand them well and do sincere
effort.
Type1’s
love to take control of things and are powerful leaders. They would plan ahead
for them and for their closed ones. They would go any farther to get proper
recognition to them and their team and deliver results. Negative side is that
they can be insensitive. They can be motivated by letting them know they could
be in control of the project and can get name for it. They could put your
project on your table before your deadline.
Type2’s
are very creative and emotional. They are very loyal to what they believe. They
could be very suspicious of nature at times. They could use little leadership
from Type1’s. In case your organization wants a job to be done and to be
delivered with great quality. Types2’s are your life savers.
Type3’s
are followers. They would normally don’t get into conflicts. They would avoid
conflicts to the maximum extent possible. But, in case you get into conflicts
with these you could face a passive wall of resistance. They are loyalists your
organization.
Type4’s
are insouciant and jovial in nature. They are not very committed. They can be motivated
by playing to their populist card. They love technology gadgets
Finally,
how to keep one self-motivated. You can keep yourself motivated all times
provided you know your goal (professional & Personal). Biggest motivation
that can drive us towards our goal is the progress we are making. So a
quantifiable goal is always achievable in specified time, investing specific
effort at regular intervals. This would itself keep us motivated.
Regards
,
Manoj
