If you missed a target, identify why-maybe you should consider changing tools. Give yourself feedback about how well you created conditions to motivate others. Identify what you did well, where you can improve and map out improvements you could make next time. This personal feedback will help you develop motivational techniques that energize apathetic, bored and unmotivated colleagues, course participants-and anyone else. We said at the outset that motivation comes from within.
People motivate themselves.
Since motivation comes from within - a supervisor, a committee chairperson, an instructor, for that matter anyone, is limited in their power to motivate someone else. Keep the foregoing in mind, when measuring your individual success. Using these six principles, you will be able to create conditions to motivate others. It may take time to motivate others. Stick with it.