The motivational talks are important to keep the positive spirit of our valuable team high, to remind us of our goals as a company and as a group, to detect small problems and prevent them from turning into conflicts, and so on. Motivational talks are important, but How can we make them really effective? How should we prepare these talks so that they meet their objectives? All the answers, in today's article.
Sometimes the word “chat”The "theories" lead us to believe that the group motivation meeting that we are going to prepare is not as important as it really is, we minimise their value and, thus, we do not pay attention to a prior stage that is indispensable for its effectiveness: the scripting phase.
The script of this type of motivational talks is as important as the script of a TV programme or the script of a film: if it is not well done, the editing falls down, the time is wasted, the actors forget their role, we lose money...
Thus the FIRST ADVICE we can give you to organising motivational talks that fulfil their function is basic: prepare the script of your intervention well, Write down the key points that you will discuss in the meeting, set the time for each topic, reserve time for questions and answers, prepare the room or space where the talk will take place, organise and select the audiovisual material to support your arguments or explanations, etc. Does all this scripting take time before the motivational talk? Of course it does, but we assure you that it is worth it.
In the previous paragraph we already mentioned to audiovisual material you should prepare for your motivational talk: videos, multimedia presentations, written reports, etc.
Don't you think all this support material is essential? Think about it: nowadays we live in a purely audiovisual culture and we “need” to look as well as listen, to rely on images and sounds to better understand the concepts of the motivational talks and to incorporate them into our own visual memory.
What can you capture in this audiovisual material? Whatever you prefer: sales graphs of your business, statistics, example videos of your competitors, graphs of targets achieved and to be achieved, etc., whatever you think is best for your business. I would support your speech while at the same time enriching that motivational talk.
One of the most common mistakes novices make when preparing a motivational talk is not to set a starting point and end point to the group meeting. Thus, the talk goes on and on, wasting a lot of work time for your employees, your managers and, of course, for yourself. can affect the work-life balance The conclusion: the pep talk has just the opposite effect: discourage.
Sometimes the speakers monopolise motivational talks and that is a error in capital letters. Motivate means to put into practice the so-called active listening, an endangered form of communication that is vital to the enjoyment of an healthy working environment, productive and motivated.
So, our fourth tip for preparing really effective motivational talks is that you set aside time in the meeting to listening to opinions, questions, criticisms and reflections of the participants. After all, the pep talk was prepared especially for them, wasn't it?
Preparing motivational talks is easy, anyone can do it. But preparing motivational talks that really do the job. inspirational role for which they have organised themselves is not so easy.
There is many communication techniques that you can put into practice to prepare your motivational talks, a lot of tips, but the four that we have told you about in today's article are perfectly suitable applicable to any type of company whether large or small:
