Evolve at Work

From motivation to inspiration How you motivate someone depends on the someone. If the person is in desperation either financially, emotionally or in their relationship, the idea of motivating them with anything but rules, regulations and laws is foolhardy. You are far wiser to acknowledge where a person is at in their life before you consider how to motivate them. Generically, you motivate people by giving them the impression that something good will happen if they do what you ask. Of course, a person in desperation might not even believe that so, you motivate them by saying some- thing bad won’t happen if they do what you ask. This is a very primal level of motivation. More sophisticated levels of motivation can be achieved if the individuals in question believe they have some choice. In other words they are not working out of fear or desperation. These more conscious people would react badly to the lower levels of motivation and are more likely to be “turned on” by values. That means they would become highly invested in what- ever they were doing as long as they thought their values were being met. Like goodness to humanity, kindness to children, ethical prod- ucts, environmental legitimacy. This is still fairly primal, and requires signifi- cant structure in a company. The individuals in this circumstance would be motivate