Everthing a person does can be classified as behaviour.   Simply put behaviour is the way in which one acts or conducts oneself.  It’s probably safe to assume there is some motivation for your behaviour.

Why do you behave the way you do?

However you act, most likely the ultimate motive is self serving.  Cynically speaking even a charitable behaviour could be motivated by a personal need to be viewed as a caring and thoughtful person.

However, while a persons actions are exclusively self controlled the motivation (and therefore the resulting behaviour) could be influenced or impacted by others.

For example when you exclaim “you made me mad” to someone , it is an acknowledgement of their influence on you. To be correct though, only you could choose to be mad, regardless of the level or force or influence the other might have exercised.

Typically though, the influence of others can be a key motivator to our behaviour at any given time.

Leaders and Behaviour Motivation

A key leadership skill is to be able to behave in a way that results in the actions of others leading to positive outcomes.

A critical skill leaders can use to influence others is through awareness of the impact their behaviour is having .  That is the leader needs to do a real time assessment of the impacts they are having and changing focus accordingly, if needed.