Motivation Techniques

Steve Jobs is known as one of those leaders who really know how to motivate his staff, which is also one of the reasons to why apple is well known, and is always in the market among consumers. “He is one who does not mention about profit or sales, when he motivates his staff, and instead motivates them by saying that they have to come up with amazing, unimaginable products” ⁽²⁾. By doing so, he removes the monetary perspective in them. Based on my opinion, I believe that as employees, when you are motivated by your leader without mentioning about profit, it would make you feel more valued in the company/position. This would be because you will have that sense of satisfaction when you know that the only reason you are in that specific company doing the job is because you produce good sales, and it is because your effort and knowledge is appreciated by your leader. In addition, Steve Jobs are one of the people who came up with s many motivational and inspirational quotes, that are commonly used in today’s world. One quote that Jobs came up with which is something I believe would have motivated his employees would be that “I want to put a ding in the universe” ⁽³⁾. Out of the many quotes he wrote, I believe this is something that will drive employees. This would be because, when you are motivated, by saying that you should make a difference to the world, who would not want to do so. His staff would have strived, looking at how he made so much of difference to the world, to make a difference themselves. Therefore, I would say that the key motivation that he used was the way he delivered his message to his staff, in a way that it’ll make them work very hard in order to achieve their personal goal, more than just achieving the company’s goal only.