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CHAPTER 3. WHAT MOTIVATES PEOPLE TO FOLLOW LEADERSHIP Presenters: David Moreno and John Mendoza . 1. Personal Gain – This is the strongest and most prevalent individual motive possessed by human beings. What People Want From the Motivator Success Respect Recognition Money

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CHAPTER 3

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  1. CHAPTER 3 WHAT MOTIVATES PEOPLE TO FOLLOW LEADERSHIP Presenters: David Moreno and John Mendoza

  2. 1. Personal Gain – This is the strongest and most prevalent individual motive possessed by human beings. • What People Want From the Motivator • Success • Respect • Recognition • Money • Power • Privileges • Opportunity • Intelligence

  3. Questions To Ask Yourself • What is the personal gain for the (teacher) (staff) (parent) in my school or district to do as I ask? • What individual benefits do I offer those being led? • Do I assign work to those being led according to their ability? Some Conclusions • A leader must know what those being led want. • The biggest mistake we can make as a leader is to believe that those being led do not have any expectations of us. • The answers we give to these kinds of questions are important. They tell us if the person gains by following us.

  4. 2. Prestige- People are motivated by what causes them to feel important or will enable them to win approval or recognition from others. Behaviors That Tell Us Prestige Is The Motivator • Telling us the good things they are doing, and waiting for us to respond. • Talking about how others want and need them. • Saving and displaying all evidence of their successes.

  5. Questions To Ask Yourself • Is there any prestige in following me? • Can I follow as well as lead? • What am I doing to make those being led feel special? • Some Conclusions • Giving people authority and responsibility is prestigious. • Recognition is prestige. Appreciation is prestige. Reward is prestige. • Treating people as subordinates takes away prestige.

  6. 3. Pleasure - When the prestige motivator is combined with the need people have to achieve pleasure, motivation to accept leadership is enhanced. • Behaviors That Tell Us Pleasure Is The Motivator • Arriving at school early and/or staying late. • Stopping by to see and visit with us. • Request or volunteer for hard or important tasks. • Smiling all the time and seldom being angry. • Wanting to serve on committees.

  7. Questions To Ask Yourself • What joy or fun is it to be with me? To follow me? • Do I make work pleasant or unpleasant? • How pleasurable is it to come to my office? To come to a faculty meeting? Some Conclusions • Schools can’t be all fun and games. However, work does not have to be unpleasant. • Learning is enjoyable. • Expressing enthusiasm enhances pleasure.

  8. 4. Imitation- This a need people have to follow the crowd and do what the majority-or the minority- are doing. • Behaviors That Tell Us Imitation Is The Motivator. • Trying to fit in. • Seeking the opinion of others before making a decision. • Saying, “I don’t agree, but if Mr. Smith says its ok, then its ok with me too.”

  9. Questions to ask yourself • Do I see myself as a model for (students) (teachers) (parents)? • What can I do to make those being led want to imitate excellence? • How can I make those being led imitate those who work hard, achieve, and are involved in the (school) (district)? • Some Conclusions • If we want respect, we should give it. • If we want people to work hard, we should work hard. • To further positive motivation, we must display good work.

  10. 5. Security – We all desire this motivational factor. • Behaviors That Tell Us Security is The Motivator • Never volunteering. • Worrying about everything and everyone. • Wanting to do the right thing. • Being constantly concerned about standards and requirements. • Asking for permission before doing anything.

  11. Questions To Ask Yourself • Do I motivate with pressure? Fear? Force? • Do teachers work for me, or do I work with teachers? • Can those being led count on me? Do they think so? Some Conclusions • People who are fearful are seldom progressive. • A leader can feel more control when people feel insecure, but a leader is secure only when those being led are secure. • Fear can cancel intellect. • Fear can consume people and dictate everything they do.

  12. 6. Convenience- When a leader can combine the need for convenience with the need for personal gain, leadership acceptance and motivation are enhanced. • Behaviors That Tell Us Convenience Is The Motivator • Approving anything- if it does not involve their doing anything. • Looking for the easy, simplest way • Always voting against change.

  13. Questions To Ask Yourself • Am I approachable? • Do I make it convenient for those being led to have access to resources and get help? • Do I make it easy to “buy” what I have to say? • Some Conclusions • Rules and procedures can make things convenient or inconvenient for people • People will almost always choose the convenient. • Convenience can increase productivity.

  14. 7. Desire to Avoid Fear – This need keeps revealing itself in every list, and it is a much stronger need that we will ever suspect. • Behavior That Tell Us A Desire To Avoid Fear Is The Motivator • Refusing to be involved. • Serving reluctantly in leadership capacities. • Opposing new ideas. • Wanting rules for everything. • Wanting promises and guarantees.

  15. Questions To Ask Yourself • What can I do to reduce or eliminate fears in the (school) (district) for (students) (staff) (parents)? • Do I keep my thumb on people? • Do I believe that I can’t be nice to people and still be an effective leader? Some Conclusion • Fear is a very effective motivator. It works. • What it does for control, however, it does against creativity, ingenuity, and intellect. • It is better to think in terms of motivation rather than reprimand.

  16. 8. New Experiences- This is the need felt my many people to do, see, or participate in something new, different, varied, or unique. • Behaviors That Tell Us New Experiences Are the Motivator • Asking to change the room or do tasks in a different order. • Requesting to visit another school. • Wanting to change the schedule or vary an activity.

  17. Questions To Ask Yourself • What new experiences do I give (teachers) (students)? • What is my attitude toward change? • Am I comfortable with routine? • Some Conclusions • Attention can be created with new experiences. • Interest and success can be created with new experiences. • Variation can be motivating.

  18. 9. Love – This is an extremely effective motivator – and a necessary one. Why? Because the reality is that love is the only emotion that human beings cannot live without. • Behaviors That Tell Us Love/Caring Is The Motivator • (Student) (teacher) or (colleagues) trying to please us and doing anything we request. • Providing events for the staff. • Volunteering to help • Noticing what we wear.

  19. Questions To Ask Yourself • What am I doing that is above and beyond the call of duty? • Do I fear making myself vulnerable? • What is the evidence that I care about those I lead personally? Some Conclusions • Love and caring are vital elements in the leader-follower relationship. • People will follow a leader who makes many mistakes if they feel loved. Few will follow if they don’t. • Love and caring show that the leader values those being led as individual persons of worth

  20. Final Thoughts • “There is no greater priority than to provide the best possible education for students. It is the teaching staff that will make this objective either a myth or reality. Yet it is the quality of our leadership that will provide the climate and motivation necessary for teachers to reach this goal.”

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