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Where to Start When Sparking Motivation
Motivation is multi-faceted, and, to be most effective, you must be too. Here are four practical, motivational dimensions in the workplace.
The best books to understand the power of ideas and positive thinking
My book, Ignite a Shift, asks readers to reconsider the way they communicate, as well as think, feel, and act, to create new and quantifiable changes in their daily lives. Whether you’re a C-Suite executive seeking ways to become a more effective leader, a parent wanting to improve communication with your teen, or a sales and marketing specialist looking for ways to improve your persuasion and influence prowess, Ignite a Shift offers you the everyday techniques that will help you achieve your goals and succeed in life.
A Tale of Two Models: Fine-Tuning Communication by Understanding Ambiguity in Language
The unconscious forces of memories, images, sensations, and stories interact in communication and, ultimately, in consumer decision-making and buying behavior. Let’s explore how two linguistic models, which function differentially like opposite sides of the same coin, demonstrate how the subliminal and ambiguous present us with a unique opportunity to fine-tune our communication.
Motivation: To Do or Not to Do
DIFFERENT things motivate different people in different ways. The more we understand the nature of how someone is motivated, the easier it is for us to adjust our communication to match up with their natural motivational tendencies. The key is to pay attention to their language because it contains elusive clues to their underlying motivational traits.
Stephen McGarvey Of Solutions In Mind On How To Be Great At Sales Without Seeming Salesy
We need to close on the thinking. So, we need the perception to be moving in the right direction. We also need to close on the emotion that is connected with that desired perception. Then, we need to close on the behavior which is what most people think of as “closing.”
Great Leaders Can Read Your Mind – Here’s How They Do It
Have you ever had the sense someone is so in tune with you that they are reading your mind? It’s a powerful and persuasive connection that provides the experience of being truly in step with each other.
Some people are naturally in tune with others. How do they do it? Is it an innate quality or a learned skill? Can you develop the ability and use it to be a better leader in any area of your life? The truth is you can be a mind reader without reading minds.
Stephen McGarvey with Shalom Klein on Get Down To Business
Stephen McGarvey joined Shalom Klein on his weekly radio show, Get Down To Business, to discuss Ignite a Shift: Engaging Minds, Guiding Emotions and Driving Behavior.
Establishing Rapport: The Key to Persuasion
The ability to transform ourselves and to persuade and influence others depends on the subtleties of effective communication and the essential fact that thinking impacts emotions, which in turn drive behavior. In order to effectively move someone to action, we must understand how the mind filters information.
One thing lies at the heart of persuasion and influence — and that something is rapport. Rapport is important in many areas of life, whether it’s relating to a waiter in a restaurant, your boss, your family, your doctor, your therapist, or your team coach. Whatever your role, it’s important to establish rapport before you begin to use persuasion techniques.
Master Four Motivational Dimensions To Improve Individual Performance
Many people struggle to cultivate motivation in themselves. In HR, you are faced with the task of understanding how to trigger motivation within others. For the average person, igniting motivation is fickle at best. As challenging as it may initially seem, keep reading because you’ll discover tested and proven strategies that will give you the edge on how to spark motivation. Ready yourself with knowledge!
Lessons Learned From 5 Outstanding BYB Podcast Interviews
In this episode, we delve into Stephen’s past, his love for learning, his dislike for school, and how being labeled as “learning disabled” in elementary school propelled his career. Stephen shares his thoughts on how to build positive and influential leadership skills, how to engage with remote teams, and the most effective ways to build relationships in the workspace.
The Learning Leader’s Guide to SMART Goals
When considering our goals and desired outcomes, it’s important to be aware of the role our mind plays in confirming our perceptions of reality and, at times, even altering them. In pursuing outcomes, it’s crucial that our goals are well-formed, thus ensuring the highest likelihood of accomplishing them.
Ignite A Shift With Stephen McGarvey
It’s easy to point a finger when something goes wrong. It’s easy to pin the blame on someone else, especially when we give directions, but the outcome is not what we expected. But was it really because they just can’t follow instructions?
The Critical Keys to Being More Persuasive
Succeeding (and morally so) at persuasion is possible if you understand people, the mind, emotions and psychology.
Stephen McGarvey wants to show you how you can succeed and more often in being persausive, especially in challenging situations. McGarvey, founder of Solutions In Mind, has written a book about the topic, which will be released in July 2022: Ignite a Shift; Engaging Minds, Guiding Emotions and Driving Behavior.
He talks here about persuasion, influence and understanding people and their needs in this Communication Intelligence conversation.
Four Advanced Skills for Conflict Resolution and Motivating Others
You have likely found that the more people that you’re responsible for, the more you need to adjust your communication style to be heard. Different people process information differently, and their motivations and emotions also have an impact on their perception. What you mean to say and what people interpret can differ, even when you have the best of intentions, and your meaning is clear to you.
The sheer number of people you interact with, and the unique perspectives of each, means you must go beyond your intuition and experience when leading your teams. Strong leaders actively spend time advancing their communication skills. Doing so improves their ability to engage their teams, motivate individuals and resolve conflict within any given organization. Understanding these powerful subtleties of persuading and influencing will help ensure that you are most effectively leading and motivating those around you.
Influencing With Integrity: Understanding Behavior in the Workplace
When exerting influence in the workplace, it’s crucial to understand the driving forces informing the behavior of ourselves and others. Effective influencing is most easily accomplished when we understand a person’s beliefs and values or, more accurately, the process by which they believe and the manner in which they value something.
Learn How To Regain Control And Set Boundaries When You’re Stressed
If you’re feeling stress mounting, it’s time to regain control of your thoughts, feelings, and actions. We are always thinking, feeling, and doing something. A specific sequence generally begins with a thought, which triggers an emotion or feeling and leads to a behavior or action. I call this the Think ➔ Feel ➔ Do process for influence. When we control our thoughts, we impact our feelings and influence our actions. The first step is to understand what’s behind our thoughts.
How to become more open-minded and willing to change
If you want to grow, you have to be willing to change.
Are you the same person today you were five years ago? How about before the pandemic? Probably not, and that can be a good thing. Growth is positive, and it’s important to be open-minded and willing to change. Unfortunately, many of us attach a certain amount of pride to holding onto beliefs that may no longer be true or fit our lifestyle, and this approach can inhibit growth.
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