100 Ways To Motivate Others Quotes

“Motivation requires a calm, centered leader who is focused on one thing, and only one thing.”
― Steve Chandler, 10 Ways to Motivate Others

“8-Push all your own buttons:
Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel.
Those buttons operate your whole system of personal motivation.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways To Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy

“Question: How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Answer: Four; calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg. —Abraham Lincoln”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy

“owners are people who take full responsibility for their happiness, and victims are always lost in their unfortunate stories. Victims blame others, blame circumstance, and are hard to deal with. Owners own their own morale.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy

“Achievement requires continuous feedback. And if you’re going to get the most out of your people, it’s imperative that you be the one who is the most up on what the numbers are and what they mean. Motivators”
― Steve Chandler, 10 Ways to Motivate Others

“So I have always remembered from this experience that people’s performance is a response to who they perceive themselves to be for us at the moment.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy

“Change will not be apologized for. Why apologize for something that will improve the strength of the organization? Every change is made (every last one of them) for the sole purpose of strengthening the ultimate viability of the organization. That’s why you advocate the change. That’s why you sell it to your team.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy

“A leader continuously communicates the benefits of an ever-changing organization. A leader endorses an organization that is continuously reinventing itself to higher and higher levels of productivity and innovation.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy

“Managers who apologize for any and all changes the team must accommodate are sowing the seeds of low morale and discouragement. Every time they introduce a new policy, product, system, rule, or project, they apologize for it. They imply that change is harmful to the well-being of the team and that change is something we would hope someday to not have to suffer so much of.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy

“The trust of your people is not difficult to obtain. You can win it. And because it’s so important for motivating them, you must win it. So you must never, ever be late to your own meetings. Ever. Such a thing will destroy all trust you’ve built up with seven out of 10 people, because it means to them that you cannot be counted on to keep your word.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy

“Unconsciously, managers without leadership habits will often seek, above all else, to be liked. Rather than holding people accountable, they let them off the hook. They give non-performers the uneasy feeling that everything’s fine. They are managers who seek approval rather than respect.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy

“Good leaders continue to seek creative input from their direct reports. This practice is not only good for the business, it’s also highly motivational for both parties to the conversation.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy

“A true leader has the courage to represent upper management, not run it down. A true leader says we. 6.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy

“Simplify. Focus on results. You will always get what you focus on. If you merely focus on activities, that’s what you’ll get...a whole lot of activities. But if you focus on results, that’s what you’ll get. A whole lot of results.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others

“THINK LIKE A HERO (who can I help today?), WORK LIKE AN ARTIST (what else can we try?), REFUSE TO BE ORDINARY (pursue excellence, then kill it.), and CELEBRATE (but take no credit.).”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others

“THINK LIKE A HERO (who can I help today?), WORK LIKE AN ARTIST (what else can we try?), REFUSE TO BE ORDINARY (pursue excellence,”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others

“owners are people who take full responsibility for their happiness, and victims are always lost in their unfortunate stories. Victims blame others, blame circumstance, and are hard to deal with. Owners own their own morale. They own their response to any situation.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. —Peter Drucker”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others

“A true leader has the courage to represent upper management, not run it down. A true leader says we.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others

“Enlightened leaders get more out of their people because they know that each person already has everything it takes to be successful. They”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Others

“Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future. —Peter Drucker”
― Steve Chandler, 10 Ways to Motivate Others

“The quality of our motivational skill is directly related to the quality of our questions.”
― Steve Chandler, 10 Ways to Motivate Others

“How can we send a signal over the phone, when the customer calls with a question, that we are different than the other companies, and they are going to feel more welcome and at home with us? How do we create a relationship right there at the point of that call? What”
― Steve Chandler, 10 Ways to Motivate Others

“The first rule in any kind of coaching is that the coach has to engage in deep listening. Which means that the coach must relate to the context in which the “other” is reasoning—they must “tune in” to where the other is coming from. In short, perhaps the basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mind-set, the framework of the other. That’s not easy, as I needn’t tell you for most of us, thinking that we have tuned into the other person, usually we are listening most intently to ourselves.”
― Steve Chandler, 10 Ways to Motivate Others

“Because your employee must first appreciate that you are on her wavelength and understand her thinking completely.”
― Steve Chandler, 10 Ways to Motivate Others

“If what you’re saying is bouncing off their psychological armor, it makes little difference how good you are at saying it. You are not being heard. Your people have to hear you to be moved by you.”
― Steve Chandler, 10 Ways to Motivate Others

“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. —George S. Patton”
― Steve Chandler, 10 Ways to Motivate Others