How To Motivate People

And now, some tips on how to motivate people. When it comes to motivating people, this could be children at home, partners, friends or at work. To motivate people, it's very important to show them that you respect them, again, whether it's children or friends, or at work.

When they feel respected, they feel that they want to do whatever it is that you've asked them to do. It's important also to give them recognition and feedback. In other words, to say "well done" if they've done something well, and if it's not quite the way you want it to be, rather than criticizing, using feedback is about telling them how they can do it differently, or better next time around.

Feedback is very important to motivate someone to do better. Criticism very often will cause people to shut down and not want to do. Praise is extremely important when you want to motivate people.

People who receive praise, whether it's at work or at home, they want to do whatever they're doing even more because praise is such a positive thing to give. It creates a positive feeling in someone. You can also give recognition to people in a way that's more public.

For example, a child at school, if they've done well and you've said so in front of their peers, their fellow students and friends, that's something for them to be proud of and to feel good about. At work, sometimes, it is appropriate in a more public way to say to someone that they've done well so that others around them can also give them a pat on the back. That is very, very motivating, too.

Another useful way to motivate people is to be really clear about what they do love to do. What excites them? What drives them? And to give them things to do that relates to what they already love to do, because they will be even more motivated to do so. And then, when you also ask them to do a few tasks that are not quite as exciting, they are more likely to do so with a smile on their face. .