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How to motivate others to help you
Understanding the basics of motivations will help you understand how to get other people to help you succeed. Motivations are what get people to act and actually do something. Hunger motivates you to find food. Offering food is a classic way to motivate somebody to sit down and be friendly for a while; once they are finished, another motivation will take over how they act and they will likely leave.
Designing work to make employees feel more autonomous and masterful
Feeling that your decisions directly impact how you perform your work is intrinsically motivating to everyone. As enterprises grow every employee and contractor’s work becomes more interdependent and constrained by the work of others to the point where every movement is proscribed for some assembly-line workers.
How To Motivate Large Numbers Of People To Want To Help You
One of the realizations that comes with being skilled in relationship building is how much time and effort is required to make each relationship powerful and productive … unless you permanently retreat, which results in a loss of control. As we discussed, you can only have a handful of productive relationships at any point in time, and you’ll want to focus your skills and efforts on the few that will most help you succeed.
Communicating is the most basic and important relationship
The most basic and fundamental of all relationships is formed when two parties communicate. No powerful and productive relationships can form without communication. Communicating always has the shared objective of accurately transferring information and emotion between two people. Understanding the strategies that improve accurately transferring information and emotion is essential to the effectiveness of people working together.