From the course: Leading and Motivating People with Different Personalities
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What motivates people?
From the course: Leading and Motivating People with Different Personalities
What motivates people?
- When you think about the word motivation, what do you think about? Now, when I'm talking about motivation, I am not talking about the type of "rah rah" motivation that you see on stages where you get people really excited to improve themselves. Those high energy events create hyper-emotional states that make people want to act in the moment. The problem is that this type of motivation cannot be maintained for long periods of time. Eventually, the emotions will fade, and most of the time the positive behaviors will fade along with them. So what is motivation? When I'm talking about motivation, I'm talking about the things that drive people regardless of how they are feeling in the moment. You can't fully understand someone's personality unless you know what motivates them. Motivation answers the question, what drives people in a specific direction? And just like with the big five personality traits, if you can understand somebody's consistent motivations, then you can start to…
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