John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Effective Leadership

Idea 29: Eight rules for motivating people

1. Be motivated yourself.
2. Select people who are highly motivated.
3. Treat each person as an individual.
4. Set realistic and challenging targets.
5. Remember that progress motivates.
6. Create a motivating environment.
7. Provide fair rewards.
8. Give recognition.

Have I moved on yet from the ‘carrot-and-stick’, reward-and-fear approach to motivation?

If you apply these eight rules you will find that you are becoming an inspiring leader. For you will be already going far beyond trying to move people by financial incentives or appeals to fear, those levels that the old-style bosses of yesteryear used to the exclusion ...