The abbreviated version of my Motivation, Relationship Building, and Communication workshop.

1. Get the LEAD out…
Be a leader not a deadweight!
Motivating Yourself & Others
by Dr. Michael W. Posey

2. Your status…
 1 – How’s our Professional Life?
 2 – How’s your personal life?
 3 – What makes you happy?
 4 – What don’t you know that you’d like to?
 5 – One thing you want to do professionally
before you die?
 6 – One thing you want to do personally
before you die?

3. Are you admired?
 Admired -vs- Deadweight
– Name 3 people you admire?
 ____________________
 ____________________
 ____________________
Why do you admire them?

4. Or are you a deadweight?
 Admired -vs- Deadweight
– Name 3 deadweights you’ve encountered
in life?
 ____________________
 ____________________
 ____________________
What makes them a deadweight?

5. Admire -vs- Deadweight
 Admired People  Deadweights
– Motivator – Uninspiring
– Colleague – Cling-on
– Passionate – Care Less attitude
– Listener – Talker
– Authority – No Authority
– Controlled – Uncontrolled
– Teacher – Wanderer

6. The Life Puzzle
 Your life is influenced
by those whom you
admire and the
deadweights whom
you encounter
throughout your life...
 …they help to
influence the pieces of
the your puzzle

7. The Life Puzzle
 Remember that
YOU have the
ultimate control
over how YOU
shape YOUR style
and how you build
YOUR puzzle!

8. One cannot not
Motivate!
 Everything we do is because of
motivation
– Humans do not do anything unless they
are motivated to do it.

9. DWI
 Dealing with it means recognition of
your preferences
– Recognize that you like certain things
better than others!
– Know that it is OK to do so!
 Accept this to be the case and strive to
operate within your comfort zone.

10. DWI
 Dealing with it sometimes means
doing things that you don’t like to do.
– Understand that it is only temporary
– Look forward to doing the things you DO
like

11. Relationships
 Everything that we do stems
from a relationship with
someone/thing
– Managing relationships is Key

12. Relationships
 Knowing yourself helps
to balance your life
which helps to balance
relationships which
helps to balance your
work which. . .

13. Relationships
 The key is to find
out what makes
people tick!
– How do they fit?
– What gets their
juices flowing?
– Why do/don’t they
do what they do?

14. Relationship
 Another key to good working
relationships people is effective
communication

15. Communication
 Effective communication does not
mean having a Monologue
– You disconfirm someone when you
don’t listen and have a one sided
conversation
 This makes others lose face and feel
unimportant and less willing to go that extra
mile

16. Communication
 Effective communication means
having a dialogue
– You can confirm someone when you
talk with them
 This will help to validate them and will make
them more willing to go that extra mile

17. You Create it!
 The communication we have with
others creates our environment.
 We choose our communication with
others.
 We ultimately control how
communication affects us.

18. Inspiring Others takes work!
The hard stuff is easy – the soft
stuff is hard. The soft stuff makes
all the difference!

19. Inspire
 What do you want to inspire
within others?
– A good feeling!
– A sense that they can
contributed to the betterment of
others!
– A feeling that they can make a
difference!

20. Quick Tips
 Be assertive NOT aggressive
 Know when NOT to be assertive
 Scope it out and look before crossing
 Remember P.A.C.E.

21. Quick Tips
 Lay your cards down
 Don’t be a rug – Don’t make rugs
 Buy into to being uncomfortable

22. Quick Tips
 Avoid Crap
– When someone throws a bucket of crap
at you, step aside and let the crap hit the
wall…if you don’t then the crap will hit you
and you’ll feel crappy.

23. Three Choices
 You can Vegetate
 You can Imitate
 You can Innovate
It is YOUR choice!

24. Contact information
Michael W. Posey, Ph.D.
drmikeposey@gmail.com
@drmikeposey on Twitter

25. The End
Copyright 2012
Michael W. Posey, Ph.D
All Rights Reserved