Motivation: The Ultimate Guide to Leading Your Team

✍ Scribed by Catherine Stothart

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Motivation is regarded as a cornerstone of performance in the workplace, both personally and for organisations. If you are a leader, manager, or HR professional, this book will show you how to tap into what motivates every individual so that you can enable them to use their talents and fulfil their potential. You will also learn more about your own motivation and how this impacts your leadership style.

Written by bestselling author and leadership coach, Catherine Stothart, this book captures the essence of motivation in an insightful and practical way. You will learn specific tools and techniques for four key management capabilities – how to engage, develop, delegate to, and connect with your teams. You will also find out how to sustain your own motivation and be resilient through setbacks.

Using activities, case studies, models, tools, tips, and templates for practical action, this book is ideal for those who want to know how to motivate their teams, improve their well-being, and feel motivated themselves. It is also invaluable to HR managers, executive and life coaches, and learning and development professionals.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Who This Book Is For
Why You Need Motivation
Management and Motivation
Management and Well-being
Navigating the Motivation Minefield
How You Can Use This Book
1 What Are Motivation and Purpose?
Introduction
What Is Motivation?
Motivation and Well-being
Purpose
Four Needs – The Core Motivators
Persistence and Resilience
The Leader-Manager’s Role
Summary
Action Plan
2 What’s Your Purpose? – How to Find Your “Why”
Introduction
Self-Insight Activity 1
Self-Insight Activity 2
Self-Insight Activity 3
Summary So Far
Quiz
Decision Time!
Summary
Action Plan
3 One Size Doesn’t Fit All – The Four Core Motivators
Introduction
The Improviser Motivation Pattern
The Stabiliser Motivation Pattern
The Theorist Motivation Pattern
The Catalyst Motivation Pattern
Summary
Action Plan
4 Leading on Purpose
Introduction
Engage to Give Meaning
Develop to Build Competence
Delegate to Give Freedom
Connect to Create Belonging
Tips for the Top Motivators
Summary
Action Plan
5 Persistence and Performance
Introduction
What Is Persistence?
The Leader-Manager’s Role
Setting Motivating Goals
Giving Feedback That Works
Coaching to Build Self-Belief
Doing It Virtually
Creating a Culture of Persistence
Tips for the Top Motivators
Summary
Action Plan
6 Helpful Habits and Resilient Behaviours
Introduction
What Is Resilience?
Energy
What Is Stress?
The Leader-Manager’s Role
Tips for the Top Motivators
Summary
Action Plan
7 Up Close and Personal – Leading and Working with Others
Introduction
Leadership Styles
Engaging and Connecting with Your Team
Tips for the Top Motivators – Connecting
Dealing with Conflict
Tips for the Top Motivators – Defusing Conflict
Developing Yourself
Summary
Action Plan
Appendix
Appendix Contents
Lookup Table of the Four Motivation Patterns
Motivation Theories
Overview of Temperament Theory
Self-assessment Questionnaires
Index