Using Inspiring Posters at Work
A attractive picture and some words of wisdom to refocus us on our tasks. To give us that additional motivation to become the 110% that each person wants everyone else to be. Often over done, and completely missing the point of what it means to inspire.  Inspiration is not just a attractive word for making us work harder, quicker and more efficiently. If it was, those posters must be taken much more seriously. Inspiration is in part motivation but it is also the moments that touch something in our cores of being. The beauty of a ceremony, the somber grief of a funeral, the sheer awe that one will experience standing beneath a stained glass windows of the fantastic cathedrals. Mass making those moments cheapens them. Drains them of the meaning that we have lengthy sought in life. Tacky, mass made inspirational and motivational posters have sparked a new genre for humor; the demotivational poster. Identical in form, but the image and byword phrase is not meant to do anything other than amuse or shock. Witty, crude, or just sarcastic they mock their source.  Commercially constructed posters with trite saying and scenic shots are cheap and tawdry. The thought is sound, but as it is done today it only comes across as lazy and uncaring. Leadership is more than just giving orders, it is listening and finding what would really motivate your persons. In that lies real success.