Motivating Our

Volunteers
(“Walk softly and carry a big
Carrot”)

MWB Neil Neddermeyer

www.cinosam.net
“Motivation without action is
just entertainment.”
 Steps Towards action:
Establish your own creditability

Motivational leadership is influence not title

How good do you think you are?

What would others say?

 Fully identify the problem
Do your homework
 Is the goal universally accepted as an issue?
 Is someone else trying to solve the problem?
 What attempts have been made?
 Establish the right plan
 Strategic Planning is not just working a
calendar.
 Find common enemy
 Find a common love
 Complicated plans should be stated simply
 Identify the person or group to be
activated

 Seek out other leaders first and use their

creditability
 Set up communication avenues
 Create buy-in
Make it personal and create action:

 Touch their hearts then ask for a hand.

 find “take homes”

 develop contracts
 Set the craft to work
 Be direct
 Make it clear
 Give them the reasons for their action
 Explain the values and consequences
 “Lady Bug Lady Bug, fly away home.
Your house is on fire
and your children will burn.”
It’s decisive
It’s clear
It’s fulfilling basic needs
It’s not leadership
It’s motivational
 Monitoring
 People respect what you inspect
 Redundant contacts will find success

 Don’t overestimate the event and

underestimate the process
 Reward success
 Using the Carrot and not the Stick
 Job satisfaction is more important then
wages.
 Team building and reward concepts are the
same
Establish long term solutions
 Be a true leader
People follow you because:
 Level 1: They have to.
 Level 2: They want to.
 Level 3: What you have done for the organization
 Level 4: What you have done for them
 Level 5: Who you are and what you represent.
 John Maxwell
 Inspire them - then guide them

 Motivate: (to motivate is to inspire)

 Lead: (To lead is to guide)

MWB Neil Neddermeyer