Motivation- motive of leaders
We all are leaders in our various capacities. A house wife for instance is a leader in house matters and her primary duty is to motivate her subjects. The motive behind all what she does at home is to motivate those that look-up to her for one thing or the other.
Renowned war generals were all known for one thing – ‘to motivate their army and come out alive and victorious’. Apart from leadership, the primary motive for all that we do is to motivate something into giving us result. We for instance motivate our car by servicing and fueling it so as to get result. LOL!
Now, if motivation is the motive of all that we do, why then do most of us fail to motivate ourselves and others? Or are we forgetting that we are the leader of ‘OUR SELF LTD’ and ‘OTHERS LTD’? OK! The aim of this article is not to assign blames but to give you tips on how to become a better leader. So, find them below:
• Sacrificing our comfort: I know a lot of people will want to dispute this but, as far as true leaders and I are concerned, leadership is supposed to be synonymous with self-denial and sacrifice. After all JESUS CHRIST Himself said it that if you want to be great/leader that you must serve others. But I must tell you this with a heavy heart that what we have today as our leaders are nothing more than ‘enslavers’ they redefined leadership into something that suits them alone. But thank God you are reading this article today for if that has been your own definition of leadership also; you now have the opportunity to have a rethink.
• Encouraging people around you. To be a successful leader, you must be good at encouraging others- use bait if you can. Simple yet genuine appreciation and praise will do wonders in this regard. People will naturally see you as a leader if they get encouragement from you. Or don’t you naturally look up to those that always encourage you? If you do, then do same to others so that they will in turn take you as a leader. Forget about what is happening today- is as much as money is vital to leadership, you cannot buy true leadership with money.
• Overlooking errors. Some people will tell you to only overlook trivial errors while some others will tell you to overlook all errors. I think I will join the later group. As far as am concerned, there is nothing like ‘trivial error’ else, it will not be called an error. For the fact that the act was not intentional and you see it from the persons look, forgive and overlook it. Care should be taken here not to allow people to take advantage of that. Before you call anything error, look out for certain qualities of errors
• Being a ‘good-finder’. We have two class of people; the ‘good-finders’ and the ‘fault-finders’. Fault-finders can never be leaders. Instead, they become bullies and with this, they can never motivate others. All they do is force people into doing things that they wouldn’t have done ordinarily.
• Basing your leadership on the principle of love. I have never seen a single factor that motivates people like LOVE. You will get all the motivation and loyalty you need from your subjects by simply showing them love and care. I tell you, when it come leadership, the power of love is awesome. So, don’t forget to make love your companion in your quest for making motivation the motive of your leadership.
These tips I have given above are time tested and trusted. Use them to get motivated, stay motivated and watch motivation naturally becoming the motive of all that you do.
To your new found leadership tool!