keeping yourself and your team motivated

The Motivation Trifecta: Keeping Yourself and Your

Team Motivated

“The questions many people ask- namely, ‘How do I motivate people to learn? To work? To do

their chores? Or to take their medicine?’- are the wrong questions. They are wrong because they

imply that motivation is something that gets done to people rather than something that

people do.”

-Edward Deci  

Discuss the principle of motivation�

�Assess your leadership motivation�

�Examine the 3 elements of true motivation and how to

put these into action for yourself and when leading others�

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Today we will…

Do you have a desire to lead?

Complete the Leadership Motivation

Assessment

If you have found that you're strongly motivated to lead, and you're already a leader - great! And if you're not already a leader, this is

definitely an area you should investigate as you plan your time at College.

On the other hand, if your score indicates that you don't have a strong motivation to lead,

you will need to identify the type of work that does motivate you.

MOTIVATION Psychological processes that arouse and direct goal-directed behaviour

Extrinsic Motivation ���

Motivation caused by the desire to attain specific outcomes ���

���vs ���

Intrinsic Motivation ������

Motivation caused by positive internal feelings

AUTONOMY

Our innate need to direct our own lives

MASTERY

To learn and create new things

PURPOSE

To do better by ourselves and our world

Purpose: To do better by ourselves and our world

Autonomy: Our innate need to direct our own lives

Mastery: To learn and create new things

How do you create an environment that gives those

you lead a sense of:

Autonomy? Mastery? Purpose?

AUTONOMY ��

Give group members or those you lead autonomy over (some or all) the following

aspects of a project:

When they do it (time)

How they do it (technique)

Whom they do it with (teams)

What they do (task)

MASTERY ��

Allow those you lead to become better at something that matters to them:

Provide “Goldilocks tasks” – tasks that are neither

overly simply or overly complicated. These tasks allow employees to extend themselves and develop their skills

further

Create an environment where mastery is possible –autonomy, clear goals, immediate feedback and

Goldilocks tasks.

PURPOSE��

Take steps to inspire those you lead that they will contribute to a great cause:

Communicate the purpose or mission

Put equal emphasis of the purpose of the

project as you put on the outcome or objective

Use purpose-oriented words (us, we)

Resources

A Primer on Organizational Behavior (J. Bowditch et al.)

Drive- The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Daniel

H. Pink)

Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation (Edward Deci)