How to best motivate my team? To best motivate your team, I think the best thing you can ever, ever do is, as you probably have heard this before, is to lead by example. Us leaders, we always need to choose one path and then stick to it and follow it to the T. People will be drawn onto you because of who you are and who you are becoming. As you become better and more successful, you will attract different types of people and better people. When I say better people, I mean not better people like better in terms of who they are, it means about the skills that they have, the attitudes they have, because if you have a better attitude, obviously that person will get attracted to you, but that person will be different from someone that doesn’t have that same kind of principles and attitudes and the same priorities in life.
The best thing, I think, to keep your team motivated is always to lead by example. Now that doesn’t mean that you don’t talk to them. That doesn’t mean that you don’t care about them. That means you’re gonna, again, turn around, so to speak, and say, “Well, guys, this is who I am. This is what I see. This is my vision.” That’s the other thing. As a leader, you need to share always your vision and where you’re going because that again will draw people to you. That’s how you keep them motivated.
First of all, you share with them your vision, where you’re going and you show them how focused you are and committed to achieve that vision. That’s one thing. The second of all, you’re gonna talk to them and you’re gonna understand where they’re at and keep them accountable in terms of their goals and what they want to achieve. There are two things. First of all, where you’re going and second of all, to keep them motivated. It’s about getting them accountable, accountable to you and at the same time, for them to know that whether they do it or not, you’re still gonna achieve that goal.
As you know, most of the time, people are afraid to miss out. They will find the motivation. It’s easy to keep somebody motivated day in and day out. We all go through ups and downs but the more consistent you are with your own motivation and getting yourself disciplined and focused, the better chance that all these people that you have around will have to follow you. As they follow you, they will find the motivation or the inspiration more than the motivation in you so they can then keep themselves on track.
