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PRESENTATION ON
SELF MOTIVATION
SELF MOTIVATION
In the grasslands,
somewhere on the African continent,
success can be defined in terms of life and death,
Survival is a strong motivator.
Here’s a short story …
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Motivation Defined
• Influences that account for
– initiation
– direction
– intensity
– persistence of behavior
• An inferred process within an animal or an
individual that causes that organism to
move towards a goal
Motivators
• Intrinsic Motivators
– A person’s internal desire to do something,
due to such things as interest, challenge, and
personal satisfaction.
• Extrinsic Motivators
– Motivation that comes from outside the
person and includes such things as pay,
bonuses, and other tangible rewards.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• Physiological
– Includes hunger, thirst, shelter, sex, and other
bodily needs
• Safety
– Includes security and protection from physical
and emotional harm
• Social
– Includes affection, belongingness,
acceptance, and friendship
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• Esteem
– Includes internal esteem factors such as self-
respect, autonomy, and achievement; and
external esteem factors such as status,
recognition, and attention
• Self-actualization
– The drive to become what one is capable of
becoming; includes growth, achieving one’s
potential, and self-fulfillment
Motivation Is
Two-Dimensional
• Internal motivation is self-granted and
comes when something is meaningful or
gives sense of purpose
• Examples:
– Job contentment
– Individual growth
– Achievement
Motivation Is
Two-Dimensional
• External motivation is an action taken by
another person
• Usually involves an incentive or
anticipation of a reward
• Examples:
– Money
– Awards
– Performance feedback
Motivation Is
Two-Dimensional
• Most people need both
• Organizations should strive to balance
internal and external motivation
MOTIVATION CYCLE
Motivation Through
Job Design
• Job rotation allows employees to move
through a variety of jobs, departments, or
functions
• Cross-training workers
– Facilitates career advancement
– Allows a hedge against absenteeism
– Reduces boredom
Motivation Through
Job Design
• Job enlargement means expanding an
employee’s duties or responsibilities
• Motivation is often increased when
workers are encouraged to take on new
skills and responsibilities
• Can fill strategic gaps by training in
several facets of work
Motivation Through
Job Design
• Job enrichment is an attempt to make a
job more desirable and satisfying
• Two ways
– assign more difficult tasks
– grant more authority
• Employees can find solutions to problems
Motivation
Through Incentives
• Incentives are used to
– improve quality
– reduce accidents
– increase sales
– improve attendance
– speed up production
• Organizations often use incentives to drive
results
Motivation
Through Incentives
• Intrapreneurship rewards the development
of new ideas
• Encourage employees to pursue ideas at
work
• The company provides funds, space, and
time
• Cash bonuses or awards for ideas and
development often given to employee
Motivation Through Learning
Opportunities
• Learning opportunities can be a strong
motivational force
• Education and training are critical to
individual growth and opportunity
• Learning can help secure the future
• More powerful if perceived as leading to
something that motivates individual
Motivation Through Empowerment
• Empowerment means offering authority
and responsibility to all ranks of an
organization
• Can give employees a sense of pride, self-
expression, and ownership
• Assumes employees want challenge and
personal meaning from jobs
• Requires long-term commitment from top
management
Motivation Through Others’
Expectations
• Relationship between a person’s level of
motivation and the expectations of others
• High expectations from others leads to
high performance
• Supervisors can communicate high and
low expectations
• After 2nd world war, Amercian system of mgt
was followed. As the people were not literate,
they asked the people to come with their hands
to work with the commands and controls in the
hands of one. It lasted for 30 years. But, it could
not sustain because of recession and unstability.
• Then, emerged Japnese system of mgt, Kaizen
i.e. the culture of “we consciousness” This was
called Total Quality Mgt. It realized the creativity
of every single mind and said”why just come
with yr hands, bring yr creative minds as
well”.So, they invited ideas, creativity, proposals
and suggestions from people. As too many
heads get together, the ideas start contradicting
and clashing. Due to ego, the best mgt system
can fail.
• Now, organizational world wants the hearts of
the people i.e. the organization wants self
motivated, committed and responsible people.
Lakhs of rupees are being spent by HRD
organizing trg programmes to motivate people,
to enable them to commit themselves and to
make them capable of taking up responsibilities.
That is to bring their heart to the workplace. But
after the training programme is over, very few
people get motivated, committed and are able to
take the responsibilities? Why? It is because
motivation, commitment and responsibility can
not be taught or brought about through trainings.
• The consciousness of the people has to be
changed through proper awareness
• Motivation can not be taught from
outside and it is for this reason that it
has been realized that nobody can
motivate anybody else. The motivation
has to come from within; it can not be
taught.
• In modern times, people have to be very
knowledgeable or informative in order to
enhance their level of discernment and
their capability to take decisions. It is only
then there is motivation to do and
commitment to take up the responsibility.
Wheel of Self Motivation
• Knowledge: It has to be digested to get
strength i.e it should not be mere information
but to be brought down to the level of
understanding. We have to be very much
selective and capable to filter that information.
We need to be self empowered to take in the
correct information.
• Power: Knowledge is power.
• Confidence: Will power gives us confidence.
• Initiative: On the basis of confidence, we have
the courage to take the initiative.
Wheel of Self Motivation
• Change: When we take initiative to do
something, we bring change.
• Mastery: When we work on changes to
be successful, we master it.
• Satisfaction: When we master change,
there is job satisfaction. And satisfaction
is the most important factor for incentive
and motivation.
• By this self motivaton cycle, it enriches us with
valuable experience which adds to our
understanding and enhances our knowledge
which in turn gives us more power .This induces
us to take up responsibility and commit
ourselves.When people enjoy their activity, they
spontaneously try to get more and more
information.
• In this creative age, we can not depend on the
past experiences always. We have to create
new experiences with changing times otherwise
old experience may be killing us at times. Again,
we should have maturity to think where to use
the required experiences and in which way.
• You need some kind of motivational drive in
anything you do. At work, you may need your
colleague or boss to motivate you to accomplish
your task. At home, you may need your family
member to share some motivational thoughts to
keep you energetic in your pursuit of your
dreams. They can sit with you all day trying to
keep you motivated. Again, all these will be
meaningless when you yourself fail to
acknowledge that you need more lasting
drive to really keep your enthusiasm, that is,
your self motivation. This is the quality that will
separate you from the rest of the people.
Things to follow for self motivation
1. Stop worrying about making mistakes.
Making mistakes is one way we can learn and improve in
our life. The most important thing here is you realize that
you have made mistakes and do not repeat the same
mistakes again. You will learn the most from your
mistakes than any other way.
2. Feel happy about your life.
Happiness generates more positive energy within you.
This energy is important to keep you more optimistic and
enthusiastic about your life. Happy people are always
motivated to accomplish something in their life.
Things to follow for self motivation
3.Get out of your comfort zone.
You need to learn to get into unfamiliar surroundings to
explore better opportunities. Do not just stick around with
the same people, same known places, skills or work.
Explore new things that will enhance your ability to
achieve your goals and keep you stay motivated.
4. Think the unthinkable.
Nothing will stop you from thinking of goals you want to
achieve. You have to dream high in order to set high
goals. Everything starts with a dream. Do not limit
yourself in your goals and dreams.
Things to follow for self motivation
• How can you have hunger? Your cause and your dream
play a big role here. If you have a cause you care about
and a big dream related to it, you should have the
hunger inside of you. If you think that you are losing
hunger, all you need to do is to connect again to your
cause and dream. Let them inspire you and bring the
hunger back.
Things to follow for self motivation
• Joan Borysenko
• Author, Minding the body, Mending the
Mind
Do something small, right
now
Do a Full Body Workout in Less Tha
Substitute healthy activities for
sedentary, unproductive ones
Overcome Procrastination Using Se
Get halfway there
Set a goal for yourself
Hypnotize Yourself Using the Best M
Trade weight for cash
Get back on the horse
THANK YOU
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