what if motivation does not work

What if motivation does not work

Evgeniy Labunskiy

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10 years in IT7 years on a management position5 years of Agile experience

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How does it look nowadays

Deep inside the Motivation

EmotionsAre locator of external change

Motivation – is the emotional response

Human basic needs

Finance stability Communication Love Friendship Family Personal grow

Self-respect Be Meaningful Power Competition Freedom Security

Environment Appraisal

AppraisalEmotion + Well-Being + Intention

Behaviour Work Passion

“The question isn't IF a person is motivated, the question is WHY”

Spectrum of Motivation

Psychological Needs

The three pillars of motivation

Self-Determination Theory

Autonomy

“The desire to be self directed”

“True inspiration is impossible to fake.”Arthur, Inception

Our Team’s case

Relatedness

As a leader you should contribute to a social purpose of work and healthy interpersonal relationship, caring about and feeling cared about, contributing to something greater than oneself

Rational questions: What? When? Where?

Empathy questions: What do you feel? What do you need? What is important for you?

Empathy

Empathy

See their world, in their shoes

Understand their feeling Accept with no judgment Communicate

understanding

Empathy and Active Listening

Ignore Questions storm Addressing of your opinion Silent listening Developing of thoughts Repeat of Story Elaboration Addressing your attitude about topic Addressing the emotional condition Eff

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Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position.Marshall B. Rosenberg

Situational Leadership

“The attitude to learn something new”

Competence

Grow Personal Competence

Grow of professional knowledge Grow of soft skills

Technical GrowOur Team’s case

Soft Skills GrowOur Team’s case

Self-Regulation

Self-Regulation MVP

Mindfulness Value (what we get) Purpose (why we do this)

Disinterested – no value External – I will show my

power Imposed – I’m under the

pressure Aligned – I’m agree to do this Integrated – Involvement Inherent – enjoy to be there

Spectrum of Motivation

Self-awareness

Ability to accurately recognize your emotions and thoughts and their influence to your behavior

Know your strengths, weaknesses and role

You can control your emotions and sense (understand) fear, anger or despair stalks you

Where to start

With your team: Identify your state in Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness Make the list of what you can do and can’t Speak with Team and get the feedback Make a plan, set the goals

With yourself: Accept people with no judgement Identify yourself, your points of success and to improve Make a What to/ Don’t Want to table Destroy labels Keep emotions under control

Thank you!

Read & Watch

Jon Kabat-Zinn: What is Mindfulness? Paul L. Marciano - Carrots and Sticks Don't Work: Build a Culture

of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RESPECT Daniel Goleman - Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the

Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence Susan Fowler - Why Motivating People Doesn't Work . . . and What

Does Amy Cuddy - Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are Celeste Headlee – 10 ways to have a better conversation