The 8 Motivational Challenges: A Short Guide to Lighting a Fire Under Anyone--Including Yourself (A Penguin Spe cial from Hudson Street Press)
Heidi Grant Halvorson Ph.D.
Language: English
Pages: 57
ISBN: B00DYX9KBU
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
From the author of Succeed and Focus, a quick and easy guide to motivating anyone – including yourself.
There is no one-size-fits-all way to get people motivated. Anyone who tells you that you should do X to get the most out of your employees, your students, or even yourself, isn’t telling you that – at best – X only works for some of the people, some of the time. In this short guide Heidi Grant Halvorson identifies the eight different types of underperformers and draws on research from her books Succeed and Focus to offer tailored strategies for lighting a fire under each one.
Underperformers range from the truly achievement challenged to those who are actually performing at a high level but could perform even better if someone knew the right way to motivate them. Halvorson explains how we can understand each profile in terms of the mindset and motivational focus they bring to their work, in addition to the confidence with which they approach it. For each profile, each she lays out specific, evidence-based strategies for increasing effectiveness and engagement. Succinct and focused, this prescriptive guide will appeal to readers of What Successful People Do Before Breakfast and 9 Things Successful People Do Differently.
CONTENTS Also by Heidi Grant Halvorson Title page Copyright page THE 8 MOTIVATIONAL TYPES The Teenager The Show-off The Neurotic The Stick-in-the-Mud The Eager Beaver The Alert Apprentice The Star Who’s (Almost) Born The Expert in the Making Author Bio Notes ALSO BY HEIDI GRANT HALVORSON Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence The 8 Motivational
CONTENTS Also by Heidi Grant Halvorson Title page Copyright page THE 8 MOTIVATIONAL TYPES The Teenager The Show-off The Neurotic The Stick-in-the-Mud The Eager Beaver The Alert Apprentice The Star Who’s (Almost) Born The Expert in the Making Author Bio Notes ALSO BY HEIDI GRANT HALVORSON Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence The 8 Motivational
Challenges A Short Guide to Lighting a Fire Under Anyone—Including Yourself Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. HUDSON STREET PRESS HUDSON STREET PRESS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA USA / Canada / UK / Ireland / Australia / New Zealand / India / South Africa / China Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England For more information about the
everyone suffers in one way or another when they think instead in terms of Being Good. Figuring out which mindset you’ve got on your hands is an essential part of your Motivational Diagnosis. And since mindsets can be changed (more on that later), it offers you a powerful means of treating underperformance. Motivational Focus: Promotion and Prevention Why do two people working toward a common goal so often fail to see eye to eye when it comes to achieving it? At times, you feel like you
by having a flawless record, by never making mistakes and always being reliable. He’s not Mr. Right—he’s Mr. Never Wrong. He is rigid about how things are done. “Let’s shake things up” or “Let’s try a new tack” are not expressions that Mr. Stick-in-the-Mud is familiar with. He not only prefers known and well-tested strategies for doing things, but he won’t change strategies midstream, even if it looks like the current strategy is not working. Sometimes, his stubbornness and persistence are