What is motivation? Motivation is what pushes us to achieve our dreams and improve our sense for life.
Definition of motivation involves:
Motivation skills in management are the qualities that managers can use to inspire and empower team members/employees to succeed.
Motivation is about providing people with the means to achieve their goals, and about ensuring that the individual's goals and the organization’s goals are aligned to some degree.
For someone working in the field of helping professions, it is primarily important to have an attitude to motivate people around and to be motivated to react and act with positive attitude towards difficulties.
Motivational management skills are the qualities that managers can use to inspire and empower others. Motivation can increase happiness; inspire people and teams to inspire them to feel more connected and engaged and, create a positive workplace culture.
Motivation is one of the three areas of personal skills that are integral to the concept of emotional intelligence.
Daniel Goleman identified four elements that builds motivation:
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things”. Albert Einstein.
Having the awareness of where we wish to be, and an understanding of how we plan things or actions to get there, is crucial to stay motivated.
To have initiative is part of keeping motivation. Initiative combines courage and a good sense of risk management.
The sense of risk management is essential to ensure what are the right opportunities and what is the appropriate level of risk to take.
Courage is necessary to overcome the fear under new opportunities, that most of the time means changes in life.
Resilience is about overcoming challenges and maintaining focus on dreams and goals.
How to be resilient? To be aware, to interpret the events in a rational way, to call upon others, to help and to be mental and physically able to cope with challenges without becoming stressed or ill.
Resilience is the ability to face challenges and respond appropriately.
Crisis is an extreme form of change, and keeping motivation is essential – what people feel and how they think (internal cognitive process).
A motivated person is able to pass by crisis situations and to react to them positively. When in crisis, keeping motivated is essential to see things clearly and from different perspectives. A motivated person can interact and relate to others effectively, because he/she has in mind what is really important to do and how to act in that precise moment. A motivated person is able to face and solve conflicts, doubts and even feel others’ experience. Motivation is the state of mind which pushes all human being to perform to their highest potential, with good spirits and a positive attitude. Therefore, one of the most important skills of client-centered help and support on social level is a sufficiently high level of motivation.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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