Staff Motivation and Effective Leadership Skills

By Gradle Gardner

Here is a simple but effective way of increasing your leadership skills in motivating staff. Firstly make sure you have an understanding of what motivation means, secondly consider how motivation occurs and finally look at ways of how you as a manager can begin to build into your Leadership skills motivational practices at work.

To begin when thinking about motivating staff you need to have the definition of motivation in mind. It is widely agreed that motivation is the internal condition that activates behavior and gives it direction; and that it also energizes and directs goal-oriented behavior.

How does this occur in the workplace?

When looking at your managerial skills in staff motivation you will also need to begin considering the key concepts of motivation:

Intrinsic Motivation and Extrinsic motivation

• Intrinsic motivation mainly comes from rewards inherent to a s task or activity itself best viewed as the joy of doing a job. Research in this area which you may find useful is based on the work of Fritz Heider, Bandura and Deci.



• Extrinsic motivation is generally something that comes from outside of the performer or worker and there is no great surprise when I say that an example of this is money! But it also includes rewards and punishments (I do not recommend punishment) etc.
  
  

So finally it is important that you as a manager get the balance of understanding what motivates your workers and how they are motivated in the most beneficial way. How you put it all together to motivate your staff using Leadership skills will develop your staff, your business and your career.

And a final word for you as a manager "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."- Jim Rohn

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