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How to turn the core leadership functions into skills ■ 45

found not only in the leader: the situation and the other people
involved also contribute to a moment when hearts are lifted
and spirits take on new life.

Have you ever reflected on how fortunate you are to have
people working in your team who have these seeds of greatness
in them? Your task is to locate, release and channel their great-
ness. It calls for all that is best in you.

Key principles for motivating others

■ Be motivated yourself. If you are not fully committed and
enthusiastic, how can you expect others to be?

■ Select people who are highly motivated. It is not easy to moti-
vate the unwilling. Choose those who have the seeds of high
motivation within them.

■ Set realistic and challenging targets. The better the team and
its individual members, the more they will respond to objec-
tives that stretch them, providing these are realistic.

■ Remember that progress motivates. If you never give people
feedback on how they are progressing, you will soon demoti-
vate them.

■ Provide fair rewards. Not easy. Do you reward the whole
team, or each individual, or both? Either way, the perception
of unfair rewards certainly works against motivation.

■ Give recognition. This costs you nothing, but praise and
recognition based upon performance are the oxygen of the
human spirit.