Leadership and Motivation Session 4

1. Leadership and MotivationSession 4 An AGC Construction Learning Tool

2. Motivation • Learning Goals • motivational strategies that will improve the performance of your crews • Learning Objectives • identify three general motivation strategies • list specific items that motivate most workers • identify various personality types • use various strategies that capitalize on personality traits An AGC Construction Learning Tool

3. General Motivational Strategies • Force • use coercive power • not the best way to motivate people • Enticement • have some reward power • Internal Motivation • comes from within a person • the same concepts will not internally motivate everyone • an effective supervisor can determine what internally motivates each crew member An AGC Construction Learning Tool

4. Recognizing Personality Types • The Take-Charge type • readily accepts challenges, is creative, accepts authority, solves problems, etc. • The Cooperative type • cooperates with everyone and focuses on getting the job done • The Happy-Go-Lucky type • enthusiastic, friendly, perpetually optimistic • The Steady-Eddie type • shows up everyday, does the job, performs at a high level An AGC Construction Learning Tool

5. Internal Motivational Techniques • Capitalize on strengths • Address weaknesses • Don’t overextend strengths • Job enlargement and enrichment An AGC Construction Learning Tool

6. Using on the Job What You Learned Today • Jobsite Assignment • Identify one person with whom you have had some motivational problems on the job. Analyze using the information from this session • To Get Ready for Session 5 • Read Session 5, “Leading Others” • Be sure you understand these key ideas: • identifying core values • setting long- and short-term goals • practicing corrective discipline • implementing company policies An AGC Construction Learning Tool

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