"Motivator." This word sounds more often and in completely different contexts. Without knowing its meaning, it is quite difficult to navigate where and how to use this term. The first association with the word “motivator” is a phenomenon such as motivation, that is, an impulse to action. This is partly true, since it’s precisely the motivator that psychologists call a person who can inspire other people's accomplishments (or inaction).
What is a motivator: definition of a term
Before proceeding to the study of a person who is able to influence the minds and emotions of members of his environment, it is worthwhile to understand other meanings of the term. A motivator is a specially created image enclosed in two frames:
The bottom frame is a little wider, in this area an motivating inscription is placed. Often, the goal of creating motivators is the author’s desire to draw the attention of the audience to a burning issue (vegetarianism, violence, social problems). The humorous answer to such pictures was the creation of their opposites - demotivators. Here the essence is the selection of inconsistent images and inscriptions with a sharp, satirical implication.
Motivator as an incentive
In the dictionary of personnel management specialists, a motivator is a factor stimulating an employee to an active, informed and productive work activity.
The set of these factors is individual for each person, although there are several most popular:
- Confession.
- Personal responsibility.
- Height.
- Moving forward.
- Material reward.
The list goes on and on, as many factors related to personal expression through work are motivators. In other words, a motivator is a pleasure that will become available to a company employee after successfully completing a work task.
Mastermind Features
The description of the motivating person should start from afar. For example, by illustrating the development path that almost any project goes through before becoming implemented:
- The presence of a need for a particular phenomenon or object.
- The emergence of an idea.
- Drawing up a plan and search for project implementation tools.
- Consideration of the conditions in which the finished product will exist.
- Search for implementers and implementation of the plan.
- Presentation of the result.
The most difficult to implement are those ideas for the implementation of which the resources of a large number of people are needed. They need to not only explain in detail the purpose of common actions, but also provide a powerful incentive, inspiration, charge. A motivator (the definition is rather conditional) is engaged in the search, identification, formulation and implementation of motivational factors.
Having the same attitude and a zealous desire to work, people are able to do really impressive things. It is worth recalling political propaganda or such a thing as “corporate spirit”.
The motivator is the most important member of the team, as he is able to answer the following question: “Why do I need to do something or not?” In and of itself, he rarely seeks control and power, therefore, he becomes a loyal assistant to the ideologist (what to do), the leader (how to do) and the communicator (what, where, when, how and who will do it).
Who is the motivator
Those people who have a set of specific abilities (empathy, the gift of persuasion, the ability to attract attention) cope with the task of motivating any society in the best way. They are able to have a significant impact on others, connecting logic and emotional component.
However, not always a motivator is someone who is striving for management and leadership. Often the goal of such people is the result of their efforts in the form of a well-completed task or a common goal. At the same time, motivators can call people from their environment both for active actions with a positive emotional coloring (to choose a specific deputy, to whiten trees, to protect animals), and to dishonest actions (to humiliate people of a different nationality, to destroy other people's cultural values).
Therefore, among psychologists there are concepts of plus and minus motivators. The identification of such “pillars of society” is crucial to the success of almost any project. The impact of destructive influence becomes destructive for a constructive society.