How do you keep people motivated?
Episode 12
Motivation. You might feel like you have it or you might be wondering how the heck to get it. It is something that ebbs and flows throughout our lives and what might work for you, might not work for the next person. So join us as we sit down with Dr. Ashley Whillans from Harvard Business School to explore the behavioural aspects behind motivation and how to motivate your teams.
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Show Notes
Researchers
Dr. Ashley Whillans
Books
Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life | Dr. Ashley Whillans
Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation | Edward L. Deci
Script Articles
Baumeister, Roy F. “Toward a General Theory of Motivation: Problems, Challenges, Opportunities, and the Big Picture.” Motivation and Emotion, vol. 40, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1–10. Crossref, doi:10.1007/s11031-015-9521-y
“2014 Employee Engagement & Organizational Culture Report.” TINYpulse, 2014, www.tinypulse.com/2014-employee-engagement-organizational-culture-report
Lipman, Victor. “What Motivates Employees to ‘Go the Extra Mile?’” Psychology Today, 5 Dec. 2015, www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/mind-the-manager/201412/what-motivates-employees-go-the-extra-mile
“The Power of Food.” Seamless, Mar. 2014, pages.c.seamless.com/FoodintheWorkplace2014Survey.html
McGregor, Lindsay, and Neel Doshi. “How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation.” Harvard Business Review, 25 Nov. 2015, hbr.org/2015/11/how-company-culture-shapes-employee-motivation
Gallup. “Re-Engineering Performance Management.” Gallup, 2019, www.gallup.com/workplace/238064/re-engineering-performance-management.aspx
Fry, Richard. “Millennials Are the Largest Generation in the U.S. Labor Force.” Pew Research Center, 11 Apr. 2018, www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/11/millennials-largest-generation-us-labor-force
Additional Articles
Souders, Beata. “What Is Motivation? A Psychologist Explains.” PositivePsychology.Com, 24 Dec. 2020, positivepsychology.com/what-is-motivation/#:%7E:text=The%20simplest%20definition%20of%20motivation,concept%2C%20environment%2C%20and%20relationships.&text=Before%20you%20continue%2C%20we%20thought,Goal%20Achievement%20Exercises%20for%20free