Minnesota Grand Lodge Presents:

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Minnesota Grand Lodge Presents

• Motivating our Brothers

MWB Neil Neddermeyer www.Cinosam.net
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Preview of Approach

• What is motivation?
• How do you motivate anyone?
• What motivates you?
• How do you motivate volunteers?
• Real challenges and approaches.
• Special Challenges
• Understanding limits

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1. What is motivation?

• What makes people strive for change?
• Reality about motives

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2. How do you motivate anyone?

• Can a leader find the hot buttons?
• Can you motivate, but not manipulate?

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3. What motivates you?

• Pride
• Enjoyment
• A sense of duty or obligation
• Recognition applause and awards
• Acceptance
• Tangible reward
• Positive K.I.T.A.

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4. How do you motivate volunteers?

• What is a volunteer?
• Recognize differences in members
• If not pay or duty, which rewards work?

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4. How do you motivate volunteers?

• Differences between command and supervision and
  leading volunteers?

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5. Real Challenges with Volunteers

• Volunteers can walk 3 ways
• How can you keep them?

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Six Special Challenges

• Hes willing, but is he able?
• Hes able, but will he be available?
• We have always done it this way.
• You cant do that in this Lodge.
• I didnt ask for this, you asked me!
• I changed my mind.

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Challenge No. 1 Willing Incompetents

• Hes willing,
• but is he able?

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Challenge No. 2 Overcommitted Members

• Hes able, but will he be avail-able?
• Watch out for the man who cant say no.
• Sometimes its better to go with a novice.
• As a leader you must choose

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Challenge No. 3 Status quo guardian

• We have always done it this way.
• Listen to the old timers
• Dont be intimidated its your decision
• Dont be manipulated to name someone to a
  committee just because he always did the task
  before.

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Challenge No. 4 The Traditionalists

• You cant do that in
• this Lodge.

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Challenge No.5 Conscripted Volunteers

• I didnt ask for this,
• you asked me!

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Project Assignments
Example
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Challenge No. 6 The quitter

• I changed my mind.

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Understanding Limits

• Remember the EA charge
• Family and work come first
• If within the length of my cable tow

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After all is said, you must decide

• Rule 1- Avoid arbitrary decisions
• Rule 2- The Master has to make decisions when
  there is conflict.
• Rule 3- Think it through
• Rule 4- Use the gavel with A light touch

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Conclusion

• Understanding is the key
• Keep demands reasonable.
• Be sensitive
• Praise publicly correct in private.
• Please and Thanks