Motivational speaking

As a motivational training different methods of coaching are called, the client should help to achieve goals to increase their motivation and increase success. For use are different so called Mental strategies and exercises. Both should get the participants of a seminar or coaching to increase their personal and professional capacity and to overcome blockages. As the founder of the motivational training is to Joseph Murphy, the first representative of positive thinking.

The contents of motivational training often come from areas such as humanistic psychology, behaviorism, Neuro- Linguistic Programming, Hypnotherapy, business administration, marketing or coaching. A clear conceptual distinction to mental training is difficult, the approaches overlap. Motivational speaker is not a protected professional title, there is therefore also no regulated qualifications.

In Germany, the industry of motivational speaker suffered a severe loss of prestige during the year 2002 ( mainly because of Jürgen Höller ).

Criticism

Critics of such trainers or coaches to operate pseudoscience. For example, in the neuro-linguistic programming, which is very often used by coaches motivation, argued that there is no evidence for the effectiveness of the techniques. Another problem with motivational training seems to be their implementation in the business environment, if it is primarily used to motivate employees, and their motivation problems are due to structural deficiencies in the work environment.

Well-known motivational speaker

  • Erich Lejeune
  • Jürgen Höller
  • Vera F. Birkenbihl
  • Stefan Frädrich
  • Jim Rohn
  • Tony Robbins
  • Bodo Schaefer
  • Dale Carnegie
  • Emile Ratelband
  • Martin Betschart
  • Christian Bischoff
  • Jörg Löhr
  • Nick Vujicic
  • Dirk Schmidt ( motivational speaker )

Secondary literature

  • Uwe Kanning: As you are guaranteed not to be successful! The phenomenon of success gurus on the track. Lengerich: Pabst, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89967-388-3
  • Bärbel swordmaker: The Bluff Society. Wiley- VCH, 2002, ISBN 3-527-50038-3
Joseph Murphy (author) Positive mental attitude Procrastination
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