How Could This Be Handled? Issue #2: Motivating Team Members

Sometimes it seems impossible to reach certain team members – you may even wonder why they get up to come to this job each day because they seem so uninterested and removed.

But…they work here and you have to unlock the door that gets them turned on about working here!

Volumes have been written on this topic, yet the bottom line always comes back to “you can’t motivate others, they’re motivated by their own desires”.
 

If that’s the case, what are you, the team leader, supposed to do to light the fire in some team members?

Well, you CAN - and as an effective leader, you MUST - address the situation!

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How Could This Be Handled? Issue #1: Burned-out Team Members

How Could This Be Handled? #1

This is the first issue in a series of Leadership Dilemmas.

Today’s quandary is about dissatisfied and burned-out team members:

“Your team members are working hard, but you're seeing signs of frustration and discontent. As you've talked to team members one-on-one the theme is best summed up as "I'm tired, I'm burned out and I just feel stuck.’”

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