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Leadership and Motivation

Session 4

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Motivation•Learning Goals

–motivational strategies that will improve the performance of your crews

•Learning Objectives–identify three general motivation strategies–list specific items that motivate most workers–identify various personality types–use various strategies that capitalize on personality traits

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General Motivational Strategies

•Force–use coercive power–not the best way to motivate people

•Enticement–have some reward power

•Internal Motivation–comes from within a person–the same concepts will not internally motivate everyone

–an effective supervisor can determine what internally motivates each crew member

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Recognizing Personality Types

•The Take-Charge type–readily accepts challenges, is creative, accepts authority, solves problems, etc.

•The Cooperative type–cooperates with everyone and focuses on getting the job done

•The Happy-Go-Lucky type–enthusiastic, friendly, perpetually optimistic

•The Steady-Eddie type–shows up everyday, does the job, performs at a high level

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Internal Motivational Techniques

•Capitalize on strengths•Address weaknesses•Don’t overextend strengths•Job enlargement and enrichment

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Using on the Job What You Learned Today

•Jobsite Assignment–Identify one person with whom you have had some motivational problems on the job. Analyze using the information from this session

•To Get Ready for Session 5–Read Session 5, “Leading Others”–Be sure you understand these key ideas:

• identifying core values•setting long- and short-term goals•practicing corrective discipline• implementing company policies

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