--- title: Inspiring Others description: Inspiring others is the ability to motivate and influence people toward a shared vision. Learners will understand how to communicate purpose, build trust, and use storytelling to encourage dedication and high performance within their teams. category: personal-development subcategory: leadership difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/inspiring-others --- # Inspiring Others Inspiring others is the ability to motivate and influence people toward a shared vision. Learners will understand how to communicate purpose, build trust, and use storytelling to encourage dedication and high performance within their teams. ## Available Resources 4 Videos • 1 Books • 3 Courses • 3 Websites ## Videos ### 1. Why good leaders make you feel safe | Simon Sinek Simon Sinek's 2014 TED talk arguing that effective leaders build a circle of safety, sacrificing for their teams so people trust one another and cooperate. Explains how that sense of security drives loyalty and discretionary effort inside organizations. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmyZMtPVodo **Tags:** leadership, trust, psychological-safety, organizational-culture, team-cooperation ### 2. The Puzzle of Motivation - Dan Pink TED talk in which Dan Pink contrasts behavioral science research on incentives with common business practice, arguing that contingent rewards can impair performance on creative tasks. Viewers understand why autonomy, mastery and purpose often motivate knowledge workers better than bonuses. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y **Tags:** motivation, leadership, incentives, behavioral-science ### 3. How Great Leaders Inspire Action Simon Sinek's TEDx Puget Sound talk introducing the Golden Circle: why, how, what. Uses examples such as Apple and Martin Luther King Jr. to explain why communicating purpose first inspires people to follow, buy or commit more than listing features. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA **Tags:** leadership, golden-circle, purpose, inspiration, communication ### 4. How great leaders inspire action Simon Sinek's 2009 TEDx talk introducing the golden circle: why purpose precedes method and product in persuasion. As a model of presentation craft, it shows a single idea carried by repetition, drawing, and restraint. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4 **Tags:** public-speaking, persuasion, storytelling, ted-talk, leadership ## Websites ### 1. TED Talks Leadership Playlist A TED-curated playlist of about a dozen talks on leading people, including Simon Sinek, Jacqueline Novogratz and Hamdi Ulukaya. Together they present contrasting approaches to empowering teams, handling fear, communicating a vision and using generosity as a leadership tool. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.ted.com/playlists/140/how_to_be_a_great_leader **Tags:** leadership, inspiration, team-empowerment, ted-talks, management ### 2. brenebrown.com Brené Brown's site provides research-based insights on vulnerability, courage, resilience, and leadership. It features articles, books, talks, podcasts, and online courses (such as Dare to Lead) to help you build grit and courageous, wholehearted living. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://brenebrown.com **Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship ### 3. ted.com TED.com is the hub for TED Talks—short, powerful videos by experts across technology, science, design, and culture. It offers videos, transcripts, subtitles, and curated playlists with insights on presentation, storytelling, and effective communication. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://ted.com **Tags:** websites, personal-development, communication ## Courses ### 1. Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence, hope, mindfulness, and compassion help a person reverse the damage of chronic stress and build great leadership relationships. The Positive and Negative Emotional Attractors inspire sustained, desired change and learning at many levels. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Duration:** 12 hours videos, quizzes, and homework | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/emotional-intelligence-leadership **Tags:** courses, business-entrepreneurship, leadership ### 2. Inspiring and Motivating Individuals In this course, you will learn how to create a shared vision for your team and effectively communicate it to your teammates. You will also learn how to set effective goals and expectations in a way that best enables your team to attain the shared vision. Finally, you will understand the most important needs and drivers of performance across cultures, and will learn to align rewards with desired behaviors so that your teammates are motivated to attain the team’s objectives. Motivation represents a crucial challenge for contemporary organizations: A recent Gallup poll revealed that only 13% of workers worldwide exhibit high levels of engagement and motivation. We will show you why these motivation problems are not simply due to a “bad” or “unmotivated” team member. Rather, motivation is very much driven by what work conditions we create for our teammates, how we structure goals and objectives, and how we reward people for the accomplishment of those goals. This course will help you diagnose and solve motivation problems so that you can bring out the best in your people. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Duration:** 4 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/motivate-people-teams **Tags:** courses, business-entrepreneurship, leadership ### 3. The Science of Well-Being **Author:** Laurie Santos Yale course taught by Laurie Santos on the psychology of happiness, covering common misconceptions about what makes people happy, cognitive biases behind them, and evidence-based practices such as gratitude, savoring and exercise. Learners complete weekly rewirement exercises and build one sustained wellness habit. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being **Tags:** positive-psychology, happiness, well-being, habit-formation, behavior-change ## Books ### 1. Dare to Lead **Author:** Brené Brown Brené Brown's book translating her research on vulnerability and courage into workplace leadership practice. Covers rumbling with difficult conversations, living by stated values, building trust and recovering from setbacks, giving leaders concrete behaviors and language for braver team cultures. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0399592520?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, leadership --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. 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