...Doreen Hanke; Albi Alikaj; Wei Ning Purpose This paper aims to examine how peer communication can help foster motivation in self-managed groups. Design/methodology/approach To better understand this framework, the authors use two well-supported theories – Motivating Language Theory to provide...

... direction-giving and empathetic language based on participant feedback and a literature review. Design/methodology/approach The approach of this conceptual paper is to continue the evolution of the integration of the Four-Frames and Motivating Language Theory (MLT) first presented in DLO in 2019 using...

...William T. Holmes Purpose This conceptual paper aims to add context and support to the field of Motivating Language Theory around the area of change and transformation. With this paper, the direction and shape of the change within the field of Motivating Language Theory for practitioners...

...William T. Holmes Purpose The purpose of this conceptual paper is to engage the field of leaders, practitioners, organizational trainers, and scholars into the idea that leader talk and the implementation of Motivating Language Theory takes ability. It takes thought and intentionality. It goes...

...William T. “Toby” Holmes Purpose The purpose of this conceptual paper is to increase the leadership and organizational effectiveness concepts presented by Simon Sinek in his 2009 book “Start with Why” by connecting them to Motivating Language Theory and presenting the integrated framework within...

...William T. Holmes; W. Reed Scull Purpose The purpose of this paper is to integrate the Bolman and Deal’s (2017) Four Frames of Reframing Organizations with the Mayfield and Mayfield (2018) Motivating Language Theory so that those who lead organizations can better do so and those who guide...

... together. In 1995, Mayfield and Mayfield called for a motivating language theory (MLT) training agenda to develop capacity in the implementation of strategic leader communications so that increase in employee productivity and organizational outcomes could be fully actualized. In 2002, Mayfield...

...William T. Holmes Purpose The purpose of this conceptual paper is twofold, i.e. first, to elevate an assumption of Motivating Language Theory (MLT) – walk and talk congruence – to the level of antecedent variable serving as a prerequisite to the implementation of Motivating Language (ML...