Continuing on from being alignment to values in self mastery. Lets explore our motivations and the culture we want out of a workplace. Dan Pink Talks in his book Drive about the 3 factors that lead to better performance and personal satisfaction as being Purpose, Mastery and Autonomy. Management 3.0 has an activity called moving motivators which expands this out a bit more.
Our first steps were to complete the moving motivators activity. this highlighted the top 3 motivators for each person. We mapped these to see any commonality across the team and then asked everyone to think about what they would change about their environment to support their motivations. What could happen that might make these motivators change position in their list?
Motivation is the driving force of your actions, whatever you value the most in life will be what determines the decisions you make. If you are not sure what you value the most you may be making decisions that don’t serve you or the organisation.
Next we added to this by completing the emotional culture deck activity.
Highlighting where can each be more aware of ourselves and each other in how we like to be treated and experience work. I believe the importance of this activity is in understanding what will trigger you and what could trigger others and having empathy for yourself and other in those situations and seeking connection instead of blame and shame.
By bringing awareness, creating visibility, creating connection. It works with the work in teams and it works with ourselves. Become aware, pick something small to work on, make some changes, see what happened and start again.
