How you can use the 18 Leadership Secrets of Golf to Improve your Leadership Game!
8:00AM - 11:00AM Each Day
If you are manager who golfs, the leadership secrets of golf are right before your very eyes!
The game of golf is a great teacher for managers and leaders. It has the practical implications for building self-motivation at every level in your organization. It teaches managers and leaders principles to take tasks, activities, actions, and projects and make them more energizing, exciting, and rewarding.
How does the game of golf do this?
Let's take a look at two distinct aspects of the game of golf. The first is the "job" of golf. These are the many tasks and activities associated with the game. Let's look at a few:
- Taking clubs out of your car
- Putting them on a golf cart
- Arriving at the first tee
- Taking a tee out of your pocket
- Placing a ball on the tee
- Taking a club out of your bag
- Taking the cover off the club
- Taking some practice swings
- Swinging at the ball
- Picking up the tee
- Placing the tee in your pocket
- Putting the club cover back on
- Walk or ride to your ball
- Hit the ball
- Walk or ride to your ball
- Hit the ball
- Etc, etc, etc. – for 18 holes!
It's not the job, it's the set of conditions surrounding the job!
These activities and tasks, by themselves, are not very stimulating! They are mundane, routine, and boring. It is not the job of golf which keeps bringing us back. It is the second aspect of golf which keeps bringing us back, over and over again, even after a bad round! It is the work climate that attracts us time and time again. There is a set of conditions surrounding the "job" of golf that creates self-motivated golfers. These conditions create positive energy for all the players. This is well-rooted in motivation research. Douglas McGregor, a guru in motivation thinking, puts it this way, "...It is a mistake to talk about motivating other people. All we can do is set up certain conditions that will maximize the probability of their developing an interest in what they are doing and remove the conditions that function as constraints". And the game of golf is a great model for creating the job conditions that lead to the self-motivation of your workforce.
What is the difference between "motivating others" and "self-motivation"?
When managers and leaders talk about motivating others they typically refer to two types of motivation – the "carrot" and the "stick". The carrot approach can be summarized in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle all types of goodies (from candy, to dinners, to shows, to trips, etc) to get them "to move". The stick approach is often used when the carrot approach does not produce results. The stick approach threatens employees with discipline, harsh words, termination, etc. You will learn why both these approaches have limited value when used as the sole source of motivation.
Self-motivation, on the other hand, relies on the inner drive of each person to achieve results. The "battery is inside" with self-motivation. The personal energy level of the employee becomes the major source of motivation that drives them to achieve breakthrough results. Self-motivation depends on the wellspring of personal energy that resides within each of us that can be tapped by the right conditions.
Why is self-motivation important to leaders and managers?
Every leader and manager must reach stretch targets and goals through the efforts and commitment of others. The self-motivation of the "others" is a strategic edge that determines whether those targets are reached or exceeded. If the "others" are not self-motivated they exhibit poor performance behaviors – blaming, excusing, rationalizing, bashing, ducking issues and complying. If the "others" are self-motivated they exhibit high performance behaviors – taking ownership, showing a sense of urgency, being proactive, showing initiative, demonstrating commitment, rising above circumstances etc.
The 18 "Self-Motivating Principles" of Golf
Your work team requires huge amounts of motivational energy to tackle the tough challenges, difficult issues, and rising opportunities facing most organizations today. Your role as a leader is to create an environment that releases motivational energy in your team.
Fortunately, the game of golf provides you with the valuable principles that can help you to create, build, and maintain this kind of environment. The Tee-to-Tee Motivation Seminar will teach you the concepts, principles, and skills required for a self-motivating work climate. The seminar will show you specifically how to inject golf course self-motivation into your workplace. Each principle is a great source of personal power for you as a leader.
Tee-to-Tee Motivation
3 Hours Each Day
Seminar Topical Outline
- The power of a leadership (and golf) growth process
- The power of becoming "unstuck" - at work and on the golf course!
- The power of "systems thinking"
- The power of high expectations
- The power of clear, challenging targets
- The power of focus and alignment to the targets
- The power of clear parameters and standards
- The power of clear, self-measurements
- The power of strong, shared values
- The power of trust & integrity
- The power of managing your emotions
- The power of achievement
- The power of personal accountability
- The power of execution, follow-through, and urgency
- The power of feedback
- The power of personal control and empowerment
- The power of teamwork and affiliation
- The power of fun, celebrations, and recognitions.
Tee-to-Tee Motivation - A Personal Development process based on "Accelerated Learning"
The success of the seminar in teaching the self-motivating principles stems from its hands-on participative approach. As a participant you are actively involved with structured experiences, role plays, group activities, self-assessments, and discussions. Under Frank Swiatek's skilled guidance, you will receive the support and coaching you need to implement these skills into the real world and put their power to work at once.
