Performance is what pays the bills. Not loyalty. Not morale. What is needed is high job commitment. Commitment works a lot harder than loyalty, and gets more done than morale does. Commitment energizes. It empowers. It inspires creativity and pulls a persons true potential into play. That is crucial because the organization cannot get by anymore with mediocre performers. Commitment is self-nourishing it draws power from the spirit, it feeds the soul. Commitment gives meaning to work, and deepens ones sense of self-worth.
Be Passionate In Your Commitment
People always look at the leader when they want to take the pulse of an organization. Example says a lot. Commitment climbs when people see passion in the person in charge. They catch the feeling since commitment, after all, is a highly contagious thing. The more consuming your commitment, the more you draw your people toward you and toward the task to be done. Your intensity, your focus, drive, and dedication carries maximum influence over the level of commitment you can expect from others.
Like it or not, you set the climate. People always take a reading on the person in charge. So when it comes to building commitment, you must lead by example.
Provide a Strong Sense of Purpose
People do not care about working for a company; they want to work for a movement. Provide employees with a grand purpose, a mission with a larger meaning, a cause that transcends the dullness of their everyday duties. Give them a dream they can identify with and watch commitment climb. Build your cause around a concept, an idea or principle that can inspire people to go beyond their present limits.
It is worth noting that Martin Luther King did not say I have a strategic plan. He shouted I have a dream! And he created a crusade. Never under estimate the power of purpose.
Engineer and Honor Achievements
Commitment grows when employees have a chance to contribute. Create a work environment where people can achieve, and you create a climate of greater commitment. Employees want to know they make a difference. This gives meaning to their work, however mundane their accomplishments might seem to you.
Build commitment in your work group by giving people meaningful assignments they can carry to successful completion.
Delegate Power to Every Person
Give each employee full control and authority over some sector of work. Share the power. Delegate authority and let everyone be in charge of something. Position your people, as individuals, to wield a measure of influence over ideas and events. When people feel unable to shape circumstances and when they feel that everything is beyond their control, they learn to act helpless. Anytime people feel disempowered, commitment gets diluted.
Help your employees believe in their ability to affect their circumstances. Give them opportunities to shape their future. Look for chances to let them have a say in matters of personal concern, especially within their own sphere of influence. When the power drains out of your people, there is no strength left in the organization. Commitment dies for lack of energy.
Make Your People Feel Needed
Think how hard it would be to remain committed if your commitment was not needed. What if you did not feel like you mattered? If your efforts seemed insignificant, or if your work was not looked at as being worth much, why would you want to try?
Commitment cannot take root unless your employees feel like they count for something. If they come to believe it is no big deal whether they do a sloppy job or first class work, they get the idea that nobody really cares, the drive to deliver excellent results dies a slow death.
It is important to make every person fell like he or she really matters. See that each one gets to go home at night feeling useful ... relevant ...significant. Need your people as individuals. Let it show. Ask for their help. Lean on them.
The objective of this article is to provide insight into why this world needs motivation. It has been an understanding within nature that if an object is not in motion and force is placed upon it, it will move in the direction that the force directs. It is also a lesson of nature that an object that is not progressing and becoming strengthened is going to decay. Muscles that are not used grow weak. Thus we see that things must stay in motion; they must have work to do.
Work is always available. There is plenty to be done in this world, and the hands that are found on her surface are sufficient to do all that is needed to maintain her. This earth also has an impressive ability to meet the daunting task of maintaining resources for the ever growing populous. Yet somehow there are people who cannot seem to make themselves do what they need to do. Beds are left unmade, lawns grow and grow, homes fall into disrepair, companies dig themselves into debt, and entire countries stand by as their ethics are dragged like a corpse behind a chariot in the coliseum.
Why do we stand by and watch as decay takes its course? Do we enjoy the thought that we have the power to do nothing? Do we relish the idea that no one can do it if not us? A pessimist would say that we simply love to watch that for which we are responsible crumble and come to destruction; however, I think better of our race. I believe we do care, and we do desire to stop the negative trends that come upon our world.
It is a simple fact that we have so many other things to do that when we get down to the few moments that we might be able to sit and rest, we choose to do so for our own sake. We say that we have earned the chance to stop and rest for a moment. This may be true. It is true. We work very hard, but it does not change the fact that if we don't use that time to halt some of the world's decay and disrepair, we will find less and less time to stop and relax. We need to keep ourselves afloat.
There are people in our lives who have taken it upon themselves to be our encouragement. Whether it is because of their experience or their amazing attitude, these men and women are considered the energy source by which many receive their drive. The words they speak remind their listeners of the causes worth fighting for, and the examples they give by action show their followers the happiness that comes from going beyond what is asked of them. Those who follow the motivation will find a greater satisfaction from pushing themselves to the limits. They go beyond what anyone would consider to be what they deserve.
Whatever your motivation may be, it is vital to your happiness to find the thing that keeps you pushing your limits and doing a little extra even when you are exhausted. Diligence will always be the characteristic of the motivated being.
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