What Do You Believe In?
Motivation is sometimes where you find it. Could be a book, an article in a journal, a conversation, a random blog post that you stumbled across in an errant Google search.
Formalizing motivation is a bit harder. Are there motivational ideas that you regularly tap and employ at work? We all have shelves of books that motivated us at some time, but what about now? Do you have a poem or quote that always gets you fired up about your work? Or do you rely on Starbucks for that.
Click HERE for a video of Dalton Sherman, a 10-year-old student in the Dallas public schools, addressing teachers and staff at the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year.
All organizations, all of us, need to have an inspirational, motivational resource that never fails to bring us to the core of what we’re employed to do and gets at the essence of our organization’s mission. One may say it is easy in public service to connect to the mission. After all, who could not be inspired by Dalton’s speech? That sense of mission and purpose may not easily translate into selling widgets. But it should. If you truly WANT to be motivated at work, how are you going to connect your daily grind to the mission of your organization? If you do not have a Dalton Sherman to help you, and you are going to stay at your company (see more here on that), try believing. In yourself, your team, your CEO.
Ask These Questions
I have these questions on a wall in my office:
Do you believe in ALL students?
Do you believe in your colleagues?
Do you believe in the Superintendent?
Do you believe in the school staff?
Do you believe in me?
With a few key word changes, these questions can be on your wall too.
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What do people at your company believe? What do YOU believe?
Joe Raasch :: Oct.31.2008 :: Employee Engagement, Leadership, Life, Personal :: 4 Comments »