Essentially the most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire, says Dr William Holden, chairman of Sewells, in his latest installment of Sewells’ series with AM-online, providing monthly insights into people and performance management to assist automotive retail leaders to encourage, motivate and guide their dealership teams more effectively.
During the last 12 months, we’ve shared with you some key business hints and suggestions from “Too many leaders, not enough leadership” to “Methods to strengthen your internal communication effectiveness”.
We hope you’ve enjoyed reading all of them and applying the learnings/takeaways … as much as we’ve enjoyed writing and sharing them with you.
We thought long and hard about what this month’s topic ought to be. That is one in all our favourite topics here at Sewells which is motivation and what makes people tick and go ballistic!
So, let’s cut to the fast: how do you embed truly inspirational daily leadership skills in your managers in order that they can motivate their teams to perform at levels never seen before?
What higher initiative could you introduce in 2024?
What impact wouldn’t it have in your results? We will inform you – it could be sensational!
The way you do it is by recognising five easy, yet powerful, psychological needs that every one people have, needs that must be met as a way to feel motivated.
Once your managers master learn how to fulfil these, day in, time out, together with your people, you’ll leave your competitors standing and grow market share, customer loyalty, solidarity.
And you may grow profits, in fact!
How does your organisation rate against the Big 5 needs that set the human soul on fire? Have a look at the table here and rating it ou5 out of 10.
How did you get on? Low or high or somewhere in the center?
It’s now time for you and your managers to ignite passion and enthusiasm in your people, set their souls on fire and to develop a deep sense of accountability and private responsibility for exceeding objectives.
In other words, it’s future proofing your dealership/department for years to come back!
Remember though, this isn’t a one-off exercise or a case of sprinkling some pixie dust.
It’s a every day doing.
Creator: Will Holden, chairman, Sewells Training.
This Article First Appeared At www.am-online.com
