Project managers motivation is critical in a team. Each team member needs to look up to the project manager and be comfortable with the deadlines, and tasks assigned. As a project manager, your motivation, your time management skills and your interpersonal skills will play a major role in how well your team performs. For example, my only project manager experience is working as a project coordinator in a non-medical field. I am in charge of 50 students and 6 tutors. On some days, it feels like the program is not running according to the timeline or I will not be able to deliver the expected results of this program by the department. However, each student, each tutor that walks in office, I make sure he or she leaves the office knowing that I am up to date and i know exactly what they are doing with their assigned tasks. I also send out regular emails to all the students and tutors and book appointments with them. As a project coordinator and the head of the program, this allows them to know that someone actually cares and is up to date with every issue that comes about. So through regular communication, face to face meeting, and keeping an update on each team members allows the program to run according to plan and obtain expected results.

Suppose I only sent one email in a week and could not tell what the name of the student is or what his academic profile looks like. I would not be able to give this the expected results and the team members would not put in the effort they should because the leader of the program doesn’t seem interested.

So yes level of motivation does affect the team’s productivity and motivation level.