I worked for an organization that had a leader with "vision" I understood perfectly where he was going and knew without a doubt he would eventually take that organization where he envisioned it. Unfortunately it was not going to be with the current "team" (very loosely using this term), the staff changed constantly. He had no people skills at all. I actually felt sorry for his inability to motivate. To this day, I still use him as a barometer of where I do not want to go. I no longer work for this organization but find some of the same in my new one. I do have a question. The people who come into an organization and do exactly what their job description says, nothing more nothing less. Working on auto-pilot. They come, they do their work, and they go home to their weekly tv program and their "settled" life. They are good at what they do but never grow. Never seem to want to grow. Like that is all there is. (I cannot understand this thinking at all, which makes me work harder at empathy and motivation techniques to help or I go the other way and just leave them be because they obviously don't want to move forward so why bother <--------I hate being at that point) They buck anything new that comes in and don't want anything to do with projects that are outside their realm of knowledge. My question is, how does one motivate these people to be more? My Destructive Leader just got rid of these people and hired new ones to take their place, sometimes with the same attitude, he just had to pay them less. That wasn't really helpful for me and my department so I couldn't follow that lead. I wanted and knew there was something more but what? Unfortunately the team leadership program was not available. I am looking for ideas to get someone who is just going along to get along see something different? I would appreciate hearing from others on this matter. There is a ton of experience out there I would like to tap into. Maybe I am just too impatient. How do you even approach someone like this? What is an example of a first spark to get them thinking...... Thanks, Sheila B. Green Bay.