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    Motivate Your Team in 30 Days: Boost your team's morale, productivity, and effectiveness in just 30 days
    Motivate Your Team in 30 Days: Boost your team's morale, productivity, and effectiveness in just 30 days
    Motivate Your Team in 30 Days: Boost your team's morale, productivity, and effectiveness in just 30 days
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    Motivate Your Team in 30 Days: Boost your team's morale, productivity, and effectiveness in just 30 days

    By Bob Urichuck and Dave Urichuck

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    Self-motivation and team motivation are the foundations to success. They build self-esteem and self-confidence, and result in an overall better working environment. A motivated and engaged environment and team attracts and retains top performers, resulting in better performance, increased productivity, and measureable bottom-line results. Written by two motivational experts, this practical guide will teach you how to unlock and harness the secrets to motivating your team members to be top performers for your company.

    This book is the perfect guide for aspiring or current leaders who are looking to improve performances and motivate their team members.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateApr 14, 2014
    ISBN9781783000272
    Motivate Your Team in 30 Days: Boost your team's morale, productivity, and effectiveness in just 30 days

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      Motivate Your Team in 30 Days - Bob Urichuck

      Table of Contents

      Motivate Your Team in 30 Days

      Credits

      About the Authors

      About the Reviewer

      Preface

      What this book covers

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Piracy

      1. Week 1 – Motivating Yourself Before Others

      Day 1 – understanding motivation

      Self-motivation

      Day 2 – what are your values, strengths, and weaknesses?

      Listing assets and liabilities

      Day 3 – personal evaluations

      Physical

      Family

      Financial

      Social

      Spiritual

      Mental

      Career

      Team leader

      Day 4 – beliefs and attitude

      Day 5 – dealing with fear and failure

      Fear

      Failure

      Summary

      2. Week 2 – Preparing to Facilitate a Team Effectiveness Meeting

      Day 6 – decision making

      Decision making processes and consensus

      Day 7 – facilitating solutions, the power of asking questions

      Taking control of your thoughts

      The importance of communication and asking questions

      Types of questions and why you should use them

      Open-ended questions

      Directing questions

      Fact-finding and closed-ended questions

      Answering questions

      Respect, repeat, and reverse

      Giving brief answers

      Digging deeper

      Improving clarity by asking additional questions

      Additional tips for questioning

      Day 8 – becoming an effective facilitator, coach, mentor, and leader

      Maintaining and enhancing the self-esteem of participants

      Focusing on a participant's behavior and not on personality

      Actively listen and show understanding

      Using reinforcement to shape learning

      Characteristics of effective teams, and how the facilitator can help

      In an effective team

      Day 9 – drafting solutions that lead to an owner's mentality

      Problem solving

      The importance of draft solutions

      Developing an owner's mentality

      Day 10 – facilitating a team effectiveness exercise

      Opening the team effectiveness meeting

      Plotting team effectiveness

      Clarifying areas of control

      Improving attitude

      Concluding and moving forward

      Summary

      3. Week 3 – Facilitating the Team Effectiveness Day

      Day 11 – motivating factors in the workplace

      What motivates a team?

      Testing your team

      Recognition as a motivator

      The importance of recognition

      Improving self-esteem through self-talk

      Recognizing and praising others to increase motivation

      Creating an inclusive environment

      Tackling personal problems

      Combining the factors

      Day 12 – the importance of C.H.A.N.G.E.

      Day 13 – facilitating the team effectiveness day

      Day 14 – sharing what was learned on the team effectiveness day

      Day 15 – giving and receiving feedback

      Summary

      4. Week 4 – What Do You and Your Team Want?

      Day 16 – knowing yourself

      Day 17 – what do you want out of life?

      Making a dream list

      Listing potential dreams

      Day 18 – facilitating a half-day team meeting

      Day 19 – summarizing and distributing feedback

      Day 20 – performance reviews; how to do them differently

      Performing the review

      Summary

      5. Week 5 – Turning Those Desires into Achievable Goals

      Day 21 – grouping, categorizing, and prioritizing your list of dreams

      Day 22 – are you willing to pay the price?

      Day 23 – facilitating a half-day meeting

      Flow/instructions

      Day 24 – creating and completing a goal log

      Goal setting

      State the goal

      Date for completion

      Outcomes

      Possible obstacles

      Contingency plan

      Skills and behaviors required

      People, groups, or resources required

      Action plan

      Methods of monitoring and measuring progress

      The reward – what's in it for me?

      Commitment

      The goal logbook

      Day 25 – commitment

      Summary

      6. Week 6 – Turning Goals into Reality

      Day 26 – conducting performance reviews

      Preparation

      Performance review

      Warm up

      Set ground rules

      Your life

      My performance

      Summarize and conclude

      Day 27 – leading by demonstrating action

      Day 28 – facilitating a half-day team meeting

      Checklist

      Flow/instructions

      Day 29 – monitoring and measure your progress

      Soar chart

      Monthly Monitor Chart

      Day 30 – being thankful and demonstrating it

      Summary

      Motivate Your Team in 30 Days

      Motivate Your Team in 30 Days

      Copyright © 2014 Impackt Publishing

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.

      Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the authors, nor Impackt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book.

      Impackt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Impackt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information.

      First published: April 2014

      Production reference: 1040414

      Published by Impackt Publishing Ltd.

      Livery Place

      35 Livery Street

      Birmingham B3 2PB, UK

      ISBN 978-1-78300-026-5

      www.impacktpub.com

      Cover image by Jarek Blaminsky (<[email protected]>)

      Credits

      Authors

      Bob Urichuck

      Dave Urichuck

      Reviewers

      Joanna Barclay

      Giuseppe Ricchiuti

      Annie Yap

      Commissioning Editor

      Nick Falkowski

      Copy Editors

      Tanvi Bhatt

      Simran Bhogal

      Faisal Siddiqui

      Project Coordinator

      Priyanka Goel

      Proofreader

      Maria Gould

      Production Coordinator

      Melwyn D'sa

      Cover Work

      Melwyn D'sa

      About the Authors

      Bob Urichuck is a catalyst for constant improvement and a cul­tivator of human potential. His purpose is to inspire, educate, and empower people and organizations globally to significantly increase their performance capability while constantly improving the quality of their lives and the lives of others with whom they come in contact with. He is a Certified Sales Professional, Certified Master Trainer, and Certified Social Entrepreneur who has adopted a village in Sri Lanka where he was financially responsible for the medical care and education of over 700 children who survived the Tsunami.

      He is an internationally renowned professional speaker, trainer and author of Up Your Bottom Line (Creative Bound Inc., 3 October 2003), Velocity Selling (Morgan James Publishing, 1 May 2014), and Disciplined for Life: You Are the Author of Your Future (Creative Bound International Inc.; Revised edition of book Online For Life, 30 October 2008).

      For the last 15 years, using Singapore and Dubai as his ongoing hubs for Asia and the Middle East, Bob has worked with Fortune 500 companies and mid-sized businesses in more than 1,000 cities, in over 45 countries, to audiences with as many as 10,000 participants.

      Bob has consistently been ranked in the top 10 of the world's top 30 sales gurus since 2008. He has been recognized as a consummate speaker of the year and was recently awarded the Brand Laureate Personality Award for 2013 from the Asia Pacific Brands Foundation, as an international professional speaker, Velocity Selling Specialist, trainer, and author.

      Bob is based in Ottawa, Canada and has been married to his wife, Joan, for over 39 years. Together they live in their dream home on the shores of the Gatineau River. Their two sons, Michael and David, are both self-employed. Their granddaughter Mikka, who just turned eight, is the pride of their lives.

      Contact:

      <[email protected]>

      www.BobU.com

      www.VelocitySelling.com

      Dave Urichuck is an activator who is perpetually improving the quality of his skills and the scope of his knowledge to enhance, inspire, and motivate young and old alike to take control of their lives, and begin to SOAR.

      He is a social entrepreneur and co-founder of Because You Can, a non-profit charitable organization that raises funds and builds homes for those in need in Honduras.

      Dave is also a landlord and a property owner. He manages a successful business in Green building and eagerly shares his entrepreneurial knowledge and experience. One of Dave's many passions is his involvement with Toastmasters International, with whom he has obtained advanced certifications.

      As an International Professional Speaker and author of Sink - Float - Soar, Dave guides people to understand how attitude, motivation, and success work from the inside out. Dave engages people to take ownership, and most importantly, responsibility for their own lives—to better know themselves in order to define their short-, medium-, and long-term desires.

      Dave currently resides in Ottawa, Canada with his partner, Julie. He enjoys vigorous outdoor activities and traveling the world. Dave has already visited over 30 countries and spoken to diverse audiences in many of them. He is fluently bilingual in English and French and is eager to develop other language skills.

      Contact:

      <[email protected]>

      www.daveurichuck.com

      www.becauseyoucan.ca

      About the Reviewer

      Giuseppe Ricchiuti has a Law Degree, from the University of Parma (Italy) and a Master of Law in Contract Law and Business Negotiations from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). He is also a contributing editor for Trade Services Update, a Trade Finance journal.

      Giuseppe, currently serving as Sales Administration Manager at Sidel (Tetra Laval Group), is a legal professional, with additional qualifications in accounting, business finance, contract management, and negotiation, successfully combining legal expertise with financial and commercial acumen in sales administration, risk management, and insurance.

      He is an effective team builder and manager with experience in employee motivation and development to guarantee achievement of departmental goals. He is also a persuasive communicator, skilled in bringing together the interests of divergent stakeholders in line with business objectives.

      Giuseppe was born in 1975 in Brindisi

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