chapter 12

Motivate your team: practice

Motivation theories are long but life is short. So how, in practice, can you motivate your team? The challenge became a whole lot harder with the arrival of working from home (WFH) and hybrid working. Motivating people face to face is hard enough; motivating people you cannot see or hear all day is even harder. The first person to work out how to motivate by email will make a fortune. It is a fortune that is unlikely to be made.

Motivation matters: in our survey of more than 1,000 current and emerging leaders, we found that both leaders and their followers identified the ability to motivate others as the ...

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