100 Ways to Motivate Others by Steve Chandler

Author:Steve Chandler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Career Press
Published: 2012-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

We have attended countless conventions and retreats where the CEO totally blows an opportunity to motivate his people by stepping up to the podium and reading nervously from a script, or making a brief and tense talk that leaves everyone flat. A vice president of a large bank said to us of his CEO, after the CEO had addressed 200 senior managers at a yearly conference:

“Did you hear him? Did you see him? I mean, we wait all year to hear his words to us and he gives this nervous, brief, memorized talk! Like he couldn’t be bothered to really talk to us!”

“He was obviously nervous about his talk.”

“That’s my point! To him, it was something he had to do. He obviously didn’t want to do it. So his whole focus was on himself and what little he could get away with doing.”

“What do you want? He’s not a public speaker.”

“Well, if he’s going to lead a large company and ask us to hit the goals he’s asking us to, he darn well better learn to be a public speaker! Because it’s not about him, it’s about us. We deserve better. We deserve someone talking to us, and I mean really talking to us. From the heart. Loud and strong and with passion and without notes.”

“So, how do you really feel about his talk?”

“That he came across as a pathetic little ball of ego who doesn’t deserve to lead this company because he refuses to put himself on the line. We would have been more motivated if he had called in sick.”

If you’re in a situation where you have to give a talk to your people and you feel tense, like it’s not coming from the heart, practice relaxing on the spot. If your legs start to shake, don’t worry. It’s just feedback time, and the feedback from your body is that you’re not relaxed. If you’re relaxed, you cannot shake; it’s physically impossible. Once you relax, you become a much better speaker. So don’t just practice the talk you’re going to give. Practice relaxing, too.

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