The Jake Dunlap Show

Make Sure There is a Clear North Star (Part 1/3 Motivating Your Team)

Episode Summary

This is episode 1 of a 3 part series Jake gives on how to motivate your team from top to bottom. This first session is directed at executives and VPs and how to communicate the “north star” so people can feel connected to a greater purpose. Motivation is one of those words that gets tossed out a lot, and there is a lot of hype around having to motivate our people. But the reality of motivating people, that Jake will talk about in these next three sessions, is we actually need to make sure we’re not demotivating them. Most people have their own fire and drive. We just have to stoke that fire as leaders and on the flip side (which we’ll get into in session 3) know what our true motivations are.

Episode Notes

This is episode 1 of a 3 part series Jake gives on how to motivate your team from top to bottom. This first session is directed at executives and VPs and how to communicate the “north star” so people can feel connected to a greater purpose.

 

Motivation is one of those words that gets tossed out a lot, and there is a lot of hype around having to motivate our people. But the reality of motivating people, that Jake will talk about in these next three sessions, is  we actually need to make sure we’re not demotivating them. Most people have their own fire and drive. We just have to stoke that fire as leaders and on the flip side (which we’ll get into in session 3) know what our true motivations are.

 

In this episode, Jake covers:

 

Can one human motivate another?  

Your job at the executive level is to make sure the company has a clear north star and that everyone knows what it is.

Where the term grind comes from and getting everyone aligned

 

 

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