What motivates you? Time for step 5 in the blog series on how to have the best possible time employee interview in 7 step:
1. preparations
2. Create a good conversation climate
3. The art of listening
4. Provide high quality feedback
5. What motivates us
6. Attractive goals
7. Make an optimal follow-up plan
What motivates us
Then motivation is something we feel we need to get to the bottom of how our brain processes impressions and how emotions created. Here we also need to understand that we have an older brain that regulates our emotions and a younger brain that handles our logical thinking and ability to cooperate.
Roughly speaking, our older brain shares – the reptilian brain – in impression i hot or reward. Threatening impressions create immediate and strong (5 times stronger than pleasant impressions) reactions of the reptile brain that takes command of our logical brain. Hence the famous "escape, fencing or playing dead" reaction. We become emotionally driven, have difficulty thinking clearly and act more instinctively.
As mentioned, lust-filled impressions need to be repeated 5 times more than threatening impressions to "reward us" with motivation and well-being. But what is perceived as pleasurable is governed by our values and by our driving forces. It is these that need to be clarified to create an ability to sort impressions and create an inner (and outer) dialogue about impressions so that the reptile brain does not "strike".
Roughly (again) can values is said to guide people on long term - individual events that go against values do not have to upset so much, but if a person regularly experiences that he goes against personal values, a threat is created and thus reactions as above. Driving forces is more about how we act in everyday life, what work style we have and how we approach work. Driving forces can steer us into different (un) habits that are powerful in themselves.
To sum up so need prerequisites to be motivated exists and some things then become important to think about:
Focus: What is most important to the employee?
Challenge: What limiting beliefs does the employee have? How can you help the employee create supportive beliefs?
Our basic driving forces are pain and pleasure. These are expressed through values and beliefs.
To understand each other's communication and motivation is important, especially when you need to work efficiently or if a new group is to cooperate in an optimal way.
Our basic drive is about what we choose to perceive as important. It is said that we have a number of filters that affect how we receive and give information. Take care of your employees' motivations and how they communicate.
