All people possess a common set of needs and wants that, when triggered, activate their respective levels of motivation and their drive to improve upon their current situation. There are six motivational premises that you can apply to bolster your motivation and your chances of getting promoted.
1. You must have reasons for what you want to do. Okay, you want to get yourself promoted. Does the challenge of getting yourself promoted really turn you on ? Is it something that you want to do ? If your answer is no then you’ll lack the motivation to get yourself promoted.
2. You must have goals and objectives that you’re constantly sorting through and working on every day of the week. Your challenge is to pursue foals that fit within your plan to get yourself promoted.
3. Your behavior should be directed at goals you believe are good for you, goals that have perceived values for you. You’ll lose your motivation if you pursue goals that have no personal value.
4. You should not work toward accomplishing a goal unless you believe it is attainable. Most people, no matter how valuable a goal might be to them won’t make the effort to go after it unless they believe that their chances of obtaining it are good. For example, you may fantasize about becoming the company’s president, but won’t do anything about it if you believe that your education is inadequate to reach that goal.
5. The situation under which a goal is pursued can change its value. The work environment can change the value of goals you’re working on. For example, your boss has told you that if you reach a specific goal, you will be promoted to branch manager. When you reach your goal and discover that you will be branch manager in a remote location, the goal may lose its value to you.
6. You will only pursue goals if you are motivated, and the reverse is true; if you do not have goals to pursue, you won’t be motivated.
Keep improving yourself. Everybody in today’s business world could be more successful, make more money, and be happier if they really wanted to. Why, then, are so many unable to accomplish this? Somewhere along the line, they have stopped self-improving. They have become complacent and aren’t willing to take the initiative to improve on what they are doing. Even more important, they are not willing to learn how to do new things that will increase their value to their organizations and themselves.
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