Welcome to the Matt Haycox blog. In today's blog, Matt Haycox shares how to motivate and inspire your team so you can help steer them in the right direction, achieve your goals together and achieve great results. Let's get started!
I have been getting quite a few invites for speaking engagements lately, and occasionally in the line-up, I have been described as a motivational speaker. It made me think and look at myself as to how I actually want to be described – and a motivational speaker is certainly something I’ve never considered myself to be. And as I’ve thought more about motivation it made me realise why I didn’t want to be described as a motivational speaker!
I am a businessman. I can talk about my ideas, and I can talk about my experiences. But can I motivate the people listening to me? I don’t believe so because after 20 years in business and nearly 14 years as a parent I have come to realise the real truth about motivation – there is only 1 type of motivation. SELF MOTIVATION!Yes, self-motivation really is the only type of motivation. I say this from experience as I’ve finally realised that you just can’t motivate people! You can mentor them. You can bring out the best in them. You can coach them. But you just can’t motivate them. They have to do that for themselves! You can’t change people. I have found that out the hard way! They have to change themselves.
Last year I put a sales team together and said to myself ‘I’m going to train and motivate these people to be able to earn over £100k a year if it’s the last thing I do’. And guess what? It nearly was! I would show them how easy it was to make the money if they just followed the simple system and put in the effort. But I couldn’t have motivated them to actually do it if my life had depended on it! Follow Matt Haycox's free, simple and proven business marketing tips on Spotify here.
So what have I learned? Good people are FOUND not changed. If you want good people then you need to find them. And if you want MOTIVATED people then you have to find them. And that, my friends, is the best answer I can give you! Motivation is a mystery!
