Motivational Management
Prime Aim 1
All managers treat their area of responsibility as their own business, with
business and personal aims that they share with their
team.
This first prime aim is to overcome the problem within the traditional
management model of everyone within an organisation working to meet the vision
of one person. Business aims and
objectives can be used to motivate your team, but who is going to motivate you,
the line manager? If you are an
owner / manager, you may well have your business aims already, but do not ignore
your personal aim. You need to
think about motivating yourself. Owner
/ managers will set their own business mission statement, however for line
managers there may well be an organisational mission statement in place and your
department may well be set other aims to support this mission.
This does not mean that you should not have a departmental mission
statement, which reflects in your words how your department fits into the big
picture. This means that your
department will then be working towards a mission statement that is your own –
much more motivational than working towards someone else’s.
While you are setting your departmental mission
statement, why not really go for it and set a personal mission statement as
well. Why did you apply for your
job, or why did you accept promotion into your current position?
You must have seen the move in terms of a personal gain, why not convert
this to your own mission. If this
motivates you to work better, it will not be incompatible with your departmental
mission statement – it will only support it.
As an example, a Food and Beverage Manager, responding to my suggestion
that he should have a personal mission statement, thought about it for some
time, and then said; “I want to do my job so well, that within five years I
will be headhunted and offered a job with double the salary.”
That’s pretty motivational! The second part of this
first prime aim is also part of the motivational theory we developed earlier.
Managers and Supervisors must involve their teams in the business, so the
entire department needs to be involved in understanding the departmental mission
statement and aims and converting them into working objectives.
These principles sounds good, but
how do I actually do this?
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