If you want to motivate a team, you must first motivate a person. If you want to motivate a person, you must first motivate yourself.
The key to the difference between teams is the difference in people. The key to the difference between people is the difference in ideas. The key to the difference in ideas is the difference in leaders. The key to the difference in leaders is the difference in their ideas. The leader's thoughts belong to the category of realm, which mostly comes from his philosophical and logical foundation and has little to do with the actual specific knowledge he masters.
Wang Defeng, professor of philosophy at Fudan University, said this: "The history of Chinese philosophy is a knowledge that improves the realm of life, a knowledge that improves the emotional realm of life, not a knowledge that improves the knowledge in our heads. Having a lot of knowledge, a lot of knowledge Concepts don't create storms in the mind, only in the heart; never believe the elites in the business world who tell them how many great ideas and concepts they have that made them successful when they introduce their successful experiences. Believe this, the root of their success lies in the fact that their minds have been challenged, enlightened and sublimated. This may be the fundamental reason why they want to change the team. The first thing to do is to change yourself. If you want to change yourself, you cannot break away from the social chain and the value network system you are in. If you want to do something successfully, there are six points that need to be paid attention to in the social chain and value network: personal motivation, personal ability, organizational motivation, organizational ability, social motivation, and social ability. Only by mastering these six points can you succeed. It is possible to control a career.
Ability is developed by motivation. As long as there is motivation, you will definitely have ability, so I won’t talk much about ability here.
Social motivation refers to social laws and trends, which are part of the objective laws of nature. Only by following the way of heaven, grasping the laws of things, and following the trend can we fundamentally lay the foundation for success. If a company or organization has the energy to grasp the trend, extending this power to the team will form the deepest level of motivation. Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty mentioned in "Shuo Yuan": "Everything will survive if it finds its way, and everything will succeed if it finds its way."
Organizational motivation is the mission and ideal of the organization. This organization should bring benefits to society. What values ??and contributions it brings to mankind. For an organization, its motivation is the core driving factor for the entire team.
Personal motivation can be considered from four aspects: meaning of life, doing things you like, meaningful social relationships, and appropriate material rewards. Regarding how to motivate a team, it mainly focuses on tracing the source of "personal motivation". Only by changing a person's motivation can a person have self-driving ability, rather than a "dial and move" machine, can a person be truly changed; only by truly changing a person can a team have self-driving ability; only morale Only a high-spirited team can fully realize its potential, and a dedicated team at critical moments can ultimately change a brand.
The meaning of life is mission. The value of human life is as small as the happiness and growth of people around you because of your existence, as large as making contributions to society and mankind. Only when a person finds the ultimate goal to strive for can he gain the ultimate power to remove all obstacles. Mission is a person's most primitive driving force. Only when a person realizes his mission can he have a truly meaningful life.
Because the levels of the social chain are different, the influence will be different. Only when an organization finds its mission can its core team find its mission; only when a team manager finds its mission can it persuade team members to follow its mission; only when a person finds his mission can he mobilize his behavior and put it into action. Only action can change the world. Therefore, if you want to motivate a team, you must first bear the brunt of it. Whether the company can find a mission that is in line with its own development path and does not violate the laws of nature based on the current situation and the nature of the industry. If not, the team will lose its core motivational force. When encountering difficulties and setbacks, there will be no For a reason that makes them tenacious, everyone will choose to escape and give up. At this time, how can a company withstand the storm of the industry or the crisis on the road? If a company has found a truly inspiring mission, it must pass this mission on layer by layer. In practice, the fittest will survive, and the capable will be promoted and the mediocre will be eliminated.
People’s minds are active. If you don’t control them, others will. If an enterprise does not have a culture composed of mission, vision, and values, and does not instill this culture through assessment, training, practice, etc., it will form a " "Mass effect", this kind of thinking is often dominated by negative emotions because human nature is lazy. This can go some way to explaining "office mood" or the reason why a company's morale is low.
Do what you love. Only when a person likes something can he become "immersed" in which he forgets time. This kind of immersive flow can bring a lot of happiness, and it can motivate himself. Many people's self-motivation comes from doing something they like, immersing themselves in it, making value, and gaining joy. It is this joy that encourages them to continue exploring and never tire of it. This kind of people have found the "perpetual motion machine" in their hearts. No matter which industry they are in, as time goes by, they must be the best in the industry.
Why do people get happiness from what they like to do? It's because people can feel the growth gained through learning. Why can people get happiness from growth? Because this is the will of the universe. The greatest law of nature is: evolution. From the birth of the earth to the present, evolution is everywhere and all the time. Evolution constitutes the greatest force that shapes the world. All phenomena in the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom, and society are the result of evolution. Plants-trees-fruit trees-apple trees-red Fuji apples Trees... Evolution is growth, and its motivation is to let them experience happiness. It is a natural law that people can get happiness from learning and growing, just like the reproduction of animals requires them to get strong happiness from sex.
A person’s true and lasting happiness must come from his own growth. So back to the topic of team motivation, then we can only use people according to their needs, put the right people in the right positions, help them grow, help them feel joy, and help team members taste the taste of success, even if it is a little small Achievements and the accumulation of small successes can gradually build up each employee's "perpetual motion machine".
Develop meaningful relationships. Hesenborg explains in detail in the book "Attack of Homo Sapiens": For a long time 100,000 years ago, humans have been in the middle of the food chain. Why did humans jump to the top of the food chain 70,000 years ago? top layer. It is because of the ability of knowledge and emotion. The human brain is supported by knowledge and emotion. Among them, the ability to have emotions is emotional intelligence. Simply put, when a certain Homo sapiens is threatened by a pack of wolves, the willingness and tendency of other Homo sapiens to fight for it. To this day, the ability to love, to develop meaningful social relationships, is an intrinsic human need and desire. Everyone needs to be recognized, cared for, tolerated, and integrated in order to improve their self-evaluation and feel a sense of pride and honor.
I understand that there are two points in meaningful interpersonal relationships: one is mutual recognition and care, and recognition of each other, that is, birds of a feather flock together, rather than one end of the stick being lit; the other is mutual promotion, learning, and growth, Mutual achievement; one is the present, the maintenance of the current relationship; the other is the future, the closeness of the relationship in the future; when one party learns and grows too fast, and the other party is relatively slow and stagnant, it will eventually lead to estrangement and alienation. Buffett once said: "50% of my time is spent on reading, and 50% is spent on communicating with people who have deeper insights than me." In ancient my country, Zhou Gong once said, "Those who are not as good as me, I will not get along with, and those who will harm me will be harmed; Those who are not in my place will not benefit me; those who are in my place must be with me."
Work with excellent people, an excellent team, and a role model. Working together with leaders is an incentive in itself. It's an honor to work with leaders.
Appropriate material rewards. Material rewards are the basis and one of the ways to motivate people, but they are not the most important factor. The team's material incentives should be combined with multiple dimensions such as time and space. It should take into account both the present and the long term. It should take into account incentives for basic positions as well as incentives for managers and directors. "The Analects of Confucius: Li Ren Pian": "Wealth and honor are what people want. If you don't get it in the right way, you won't get it." "Mencius Teng Wengong": "If you don't have the right way, then a basket of food will not be obtained. If people follow the way, then Shun will accept the rule of Yao and not think of it as peaceful." The above thoughts of Confucius and Mencius can express the explanation of material pursuit.
Value is directly proportional to return. If it is not directly proportional, it will be out of balance. Material incentives are a double-edged sword. Only by grasping the truth of value fairly and objectively can it have an motivating effect. If people without value are rewarded and people with value are ignored, it will be counterproductive. Real material incentives must consider the two principles of appropriateness and truth.
The above is just a more idealized theory that presents the ways I understand to motivate teams. Although these generalizations are derived from abstract generalizations from practice, the reality is a hundred times more complicated than these. In the past, It is today and it will be in the future.
Embrace reality, embrace change, put these theories in the turbulent reality, practice, experience, think, and collide, so that you can finally gain effective power to motivate yourself, your team, and your colleagues. this world.
Reverse thinking, if you want to truly motivate a team, you need to motivate a person first. If you want to motivate a person, you must first motivate yourself, so that you have a self-driven "perpetual motion machine" before you can change the world. power.
Change yourself, change a person, change a brand.
2020.3.15 Qingdao