Motivational Drivers
What motivates us?
There are two main types of drivers that exist. Towards drivers and away drivers, most people are one or the other. A towards person is the type of person that is committed to success, they want things; they set high goals. They rarely settle for thing that aren’t on there path. Incentives work well with these type of people.
People who respond to away drivers are normally driven by pain, stress and other unpleasant thought. Those who do respond to away drivers are normally not as motivated until an unpleasant event happens. Once the unpleasant thought has dissipated people who do respond to these drivers often then relax again and go back to normal. Away people are often great problem solvers, but would raely leave a job until such drivers came into play.
The ideal would be to have a careful balance to these two drivers, and use them appropriately. Eg: in a meeting you will have the two types of people, allow the Towards people to come up with the great ideas, then let the away people come up with solutions why this wouldn’t work.