Function: Reflection On Leadership And Motivation

PART B
Reflection on Leadership and Motivation
Introduction
In this part of my assignment I am required to reflect my leadership style in motivation, identify a strategy where I demonstrated motivation as a Leader to staff that was successful.
There is an old 12th Century English proverb, which says you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink, the horse will only drink water if it is thirsty, I believe this to be the case when you are dealing with human behaviour, unless employees are motivated in some way or other to reach any targets or goals, they will simply not do it, they need to have a reason. I believe that to motivate or be motivated is a skill that anyone can learn for any organisation to enable to reach its targets or goals.
I am currently employed as an Advisor in a non for profit organisation; my goal is to target early intervention by assisting parents who are at risk of long-term welfare dependency, identify their

For example, we identified that 180 Work STAR’S where required to ensure our KPI was accumulated, by doing this I informed the team that the best way to manage this as we were time poor was to firstly divide the stars equally, even though my work load was heavier, as a leader I needed to set an example, the second was to contact the participants by phoning them instead of setting up an appointment for them to come in and see their case manager. My strategy behind this was that by approaching the goal in this way meant it would be achievable, furthermore based on past data, there was evidence of participants not turning up for their appointments, we could not risk this, invariably participants normally answered their phones when we contacted them to arrange further appointments or