Becoming a Motivational Leader

Create a Big Vision

To become a motivational leader, you must start with motivating yourself. You motivate yourself by creating a big vision, and as you move progressively toward its realization, you motivate and enthuse others to work with you to fulfill that vision.

Set High Standards

You must exhibit absolute honesty and integrity with everyone in everything you do. You are the kind of person others admire and respect and want to be like. You must set a standard that others aspire to. You must live in truth with yourself and with others so that they feel confident giving you their support and their commitment.

Face Your Fears

You must demonstrate courage in everything you do by facing doubts and uncertainties and moving forward regardless of your fears. You have to put up a good front even when you feel anxious about the outcome. You must not burden others with your fears and misgivings. Keep them to yourself. You must constantly push yourself out of your comfort zone and in the sole direction of your goals. And no matter how bleak the situation might appear, you have to keep on keeping on with a smile.

Be Realistic About Your Situation

You must be intensely realistic. You have to refuse to engage in mental games or self-delusion. You should encourage others to be realistic and objective about their situations as well. You can encourage them to realize and appreciate that there is a price to pay for everything that they may want. People will have weaknesses that they will have to overcome, and they have standards that they will have to meet, if they want to survive and thrive in a competitive market, there is no other way.

Accept Responsibility

You must accept complete responsibility for results that occur, good or bad. Refuse to make excuses or blame others or hold grudges against people who you feel may have wronged you. It is a waist of time and energy. Say, "If it's to be, it's up to me." Repeat these words over and over along with the words, "I am responsible. I am responsible. I am responsible."

Take Vigorous Action

Finally, you must take action. You know that all mental preparation and character building is merely a prelude to action. It's not what you say but what you do that counts. The mark of the true leader is that he or she leads the action. He or she is willing to go first. He or she sets the example and acts as the role model. He or she does what he or she expects others to do.

Strive For Excellence

Become a motivational leader by motivating yourself first. And you motivate yourself by striving toward excellence, by committing yourself to becoming everything you are capable of becoming. You motivate yourself by throwing your whole heart into doing your job in an excellent fashion. You motivate yourself and others by continually looking for ways to help others to improve their lives and achieve their goals. You become a motivational leader by becoming the kind of person others want to get behind and support in every way.

Your main job is to take complete control of your personal evolution and become a leader in every area of your life. You could ask for nothing more, and you should settle for nothing less.

Action Exercises

First, see yourself as an outstanding person, parent, coworker, spouse, friend and leader in everything that you do. Pattern your behavior after the very best people you know and the very best of your role models. Set high standards and refuse to compromise them. Except and expect nothing but greatness.

Second, be clear about your goals and priorities and then take action that moves you continually forward. Develop a sense of urgency in everything that you do. Keep moving forward at all costs and you'll automatically keep yourself and others motivated.

How Teamwork Actually Works

Teamwork is a joint action by a group of individuals, in which each person subordinates there individual interests and opinions for the unity and efficiency of the group.

This does not mean that individuals are no longer important; however, it does mean that effective and efficient teamwork goes beyond any single individual.

The most effective teamwork is produced when all the individuals involved harmonize their contributions, take responsibility for there actions and work towards a common goal.

In order for teamwork to succeed, each person involved must be a team player. A team player is one who subordinates personal aspirations and works in a coordinated effort with all other members of a group, in striving for a common goal.

If the team or group fails, it is NOT the fault or responsibility of one individual, but rather a failed attempt by the entire group. After all, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

People who decide to not make a decision or refuse to act are simply afraid to fail. People who are afraid to fail are also afraid to take chances. However, optimal solutions to difficult problems almost always require taking a chance.

People who care the most always want the best and typically come up with the most suggestions to team problems. It is then up to the team to research and act upon those suggestions. One member of a team cannot force other members to perform as a unit.

When things need to be improved, team players want to see those improvements. People who are self centered and do not care about the success of the team will shoot down, criticize, take no action and blame other team members for things not going the correct way.

A corollary is that people, who care the most, will find other options for better more fulfilling and productive environments; if all of there efforts are pushed aside by those who choose to do nothing. So, they will go elsewhere to locate a better team environment.

An organization, group or team which does not perform as a unit, will lose its best people first.