3. Show your own enthusiasm. The last and most important point is that you cannot expect to enthuse your team mates or subordinates if you are not enthusiastic yourself. People tend not to follow hypocrites. Besides, for the task in hand, you want everyone to be enthused towards the common goal, and that includes you. Of course nobody is there to highlight why you should feel inspired to work on this task, so you’ll have to motivate yourself, using the other tips here on this blog.

If you really find yourself so apathetic about the current task that that you cannot enthuse yourself, then how can you expect your colleagues to be driven towards the goals you have set them? Increasing your skill as a manager is a genuine, not superficial, process. Enthusiasm is contagious but so is shallow behaviour covering up apathy or the simple desire to manipulate. If you’re in the situation where you have to pretend to be enthused; you really need to think about changing your career because you will never feel happy on your current path.

Provided you are genuinely enthusiastic within yourself, you will find this will infect the culture of your team; spreading through your colleagues at a dizzying rate. And provided you talk in terms of their ambitions and set a personal challenge, you shall begin to see enthusiasm bubble out of your collegues like champagne from the bottle!

In Summary:

1. Talk to their dreams

2. Appeal to their competitive nature

3. Show your own enthusiasm