Motivate me when I’m dead…
May 5th, 2008 by Mark Ramm
It think the very idea that motivation can be “imparted” in a morning meeting, or a half day seminar is kind of demeaning.
Motivation is a complex network of hopes, dreams, fears, needs, frustrations, incentives, and personal morality. Motivating people is as much about connecting their individual aspirations to the goals of the organization as anything. If people can do what’s right, become who they want to be, and get paid to do it, that’s a far more powerful motivator than you can get from any meeting.
If those things are true, you can skip the motivational meeting. Everybody would rather sit down and get some work done. And if they aren’t true it’s not likely that another meeting will help.
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