How to Improve Motivation in Your Team or Organization • WorkshopBank
How to Improve Motivation in Your Team or Organization • WorkshopBank is an applied improv exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink explores the science of motivation. It challenges traditional views on what drives human behaviour.
- Pink identifies three core elements that foster intrinsic motivation:
- Autonomy: The desire to direct our own lives. Pink argues that people are more motivated when they have control over their work and the freedom to make decisions.
- Ask them to discuss and share personal experiences where they felt highly motivated.
- Pink argues that people are more motivated when they have control over their work and the freedom to make decisions.
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Autonomy: The desire to direct our own lives. Pink argues that people are more motivated when they have control over their work and the freedom to make decisions.
Ask them to discuss and share personal experiences where they felt highly motivated.
Pink argues that people are more motivated when they have control over their work and the freedom to make decisions.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: How to Improve Motivation in Your Team or Organization • WorkshopBank. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Autonomy: The desire to direct our own lives. Pink argues that people are more motivated when they have control over their work and the freedom to make decisions.; Ask them to discuss and share personal experiences where they felt highly motivated.; Pink argues that people are more motivated when they have control over their work and the freedom to make decisions.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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