Monday, April 15, 2013

Leadership in Business Symptom #5: Unmotivated: Lacking a sense of achievement

 
It really does suck – when you are busting a gut and you just seem to be going around in circles. When you look at your ‘to do’ list at the end of the day and there are more things on it than when you started the day!
 
When the alarm goes off you hit the snooze button, and then lay there trying to think of the most valid reason to not go to work today – except you are the Leader! You’re supposed to be the one motivating everyone else. You know people are watching you, but you are conflicted. Do you ‘fake it’ and walk in with a smile and pretend it’s all OK? Or do you reveal all, and risk scaring your people?
 
Often what happens is we get out of alignment with the goals and purpose of the organisation. We either forget why we joined in the first place, or something has changed – with them, or with you, or maybe both.
 
Sitting down and really reflecting on what this organisation is all about, what its purpose is, what it is trying to achieve, and then determining if you share that common purpose is the first step to finding the solution to your motivation, or lack of!
As leaders, when we share a common goal, a common purpose with the organisation we are leading, then we can determine the following:
 
1.    What are their Expectations of me that help them achieve that?
 
2.    What are my Expectations of them that help me achieve that?
 
3.    What do they Need from me that helps them achieve that?
 
4.    What do I Need from them that helps me achieve that?
 
5.    What do they need to Promise me to bring it all together?
 
6.    What do I need to Promise them to bring it all together?
 
It’s all about ENPs® - Understanding what we Expect and Need from each other, and what we can Promise each other to make it all work. This is the dynamics of trust. If it doesn’t stack up, if you simply can’t Promise to meet their Expectations and Needs of you, then frankly, you are in the wrong place. But when this is aligned, when you can build trust on a common ground, then your sense of motivation and achievement will flourish.

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