Municipal Leaders: Develop Faster, Lead Stronger, Build Better
Every week, you’ll get insights and actionable steps to help you navigate personal growth and professional success.
Are you quietly questioning whether your employee recognition programs and incentive systems are actually working? You’re not alone. As municipal leaders, many often find themselves implementing the same motivation strategies that have been used for decades – but what if there’s a better way?
In this week’s episode of The HaltingWinter Podcast, Seth Winterhalter challenges conventional wisdom about motivation in municipal government, drawing powerful insights from Daniel Pink’s “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.” Through real-world examples and surprising research, we explore why traditional approaches to motivation often backfire in public service – and what actually works.
Imagine: It’s Monday morning, and a city manager is staring at the latest employee engagement survey results. Despite implementing performance bonuses, employee-of-the-month programs, and standardized recognition initiatives, engagement scores remain stagnant. Department heads report increasing difficulty motivating their teams, and the traditional “if-then” rewards aren’t moving the needle on performance or satisfaction.
This is true, but only if you have specific, written goals that are tied to your own deep desires.
Many people will “try one more time” today.
In this episode of The HaltingWinter Podcast, Seth Winterhalter continues the discussion about desires, goals, and drive by using the illustration of putting a puzzle together. The picture of our life is framed and filled in with thousands of “puzzle pieces” or what Seth calls our individual, subjective, life experiences. Some of these pieces we choose and others are chosen for us. For those that we choose, are we making the best decisions, aligning our deepest desires with our goals, to paint the vivid picture we see for our life?
Our latest podcast is live with Seth Winterhalter diving into the topics of “Desires, Goals, and Drive.” How are these three topics connected to your body, mind, and soul, and why are they the primary vehicles of bringing your deepest desires from dreams into reality? This and more on the podcast.
