ABSTRACT
The very tools that project managers live by can provide significant motivation. The judicious use of milestones in a project schedule is a great motivator. Good leaders encourage creativity and create a motivational and stimulating environment, opportunities, challenges, and high expectations. These characteristics of leadership tend to provide motivation to those who stimulate that behavior. One of the more interesting and useful studies of human behavior is from Abraham Maslow. If a project manager can ascertain where in the Maslow hierarchy a team member is, then the method of motivating that team member is more clearly defined. There are certain criteria used when picking a team. The first consideration is to determine the project's goals and objectives. The goals and objectives of a project are the first order of business to determine team members based on their experience level, personality requirements, and convenience.
