Three Motivational Issues

Post Written by Crystal Kubeczka and Stefanie Poteet.

The Three motivational issues are energizing our people, directing and channeling the behavior of our people, and maintaining and sustaining desired behaviors. An example of these three motivational issues could be seen through a business atmosphere. For example, a large-scale company is working on a substantial project that will allow their company to stand out amongst their competitors. In order to complete this project, the company must recruit fifteen qualified participants. The leader must energize his or her colleagues so that they understand that the need for these new participants is essential to the growth for their company. Not only is energizing the colleagues important but the leader must also direct and channel the behavior of his or her workers. In this example, the leader could give specific jobs to each worker. Each worker could be assigned a certain number of participants that they would need to recruit. The leader could give them specific guidelines on topics to discuss with the participants about the project and the company they are looking into joining. Lastly the leader must maintain and sustain the desired behaviors from his or her fellow workers. In order to do this, the leader must help his or her workers to keep the goal insight.



In the youtube video posted, it shows an exercise of the company expressing "their perfect work day" and this is a great exercise, because it shows the bosses interacting with their employees. The bosses then are able to motivate his or her employees and work on issues their employees have with the company. The company then will be able to move forward and grow at a better rate. It is important for the leader of the company to motivate its followers because it will allow progress and will show improvement.This ties in with the three motivational issues because it is important that the leader energizes his people, directs their behavior, and maintains their desired behaviors. So by doing this exercise it is allowing the leader to complete these three motivational issues and work better with his employees.

I have experienced  this in a previous job that I had working in the nursery in my church. Every week after our last sunday service we would have a meeting and everyone would discuss the previous work week with our leaders. They were so encouraging and always highlighted the things that the team did well and then would motivate us to change things by verbally directing us on what we needed to improve. The team maintained these behaviors because the leaders would follow up every week. We were always motivated to do better because the team was passionate about helping kids and trusted our leaders guidance.