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Motivation - Intrinsic and Extrinsic

2/15/2015

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Susan Fowler has a book, “Why Motivating People Doesn't Work…and What Does” in which she smartly addresses the challenges with using extrinsic motivational systems within groups.  We shared a bit about this with our “Tree of Performance” (photo below) and believe all leaders should be well versed in the six levers they can pull to guide a team in this area. Publicly many leaders joke that they expect all members of their team to be “self-motivated”,  but privately they understand how to create a culture where people's need for Autonomy,  Relatedness, and Competency are being met. 

Digging Deeper:
A client assignment had us diving further into this topic and how the topics of “Productivity” and “Engagement” can come into play.  Engagement is something that does not....


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Global Team Culture

2/15/2015

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Erin Meyer released “The Culture Map” in 2014 and it sat in my stack of books for a few months or I would have written about it sooner, for anyone working with an international team this book has the keys to team-building heaven. It turns out that in the midst of the United States trying to make amends for past sins in the “you and I are different” category, the rest of the world has known all along that a French Chef beats a British one, and that Indian executives are much less worried about timeliness than the Germans.  

Meyer has created a global relative scale for culture differences in eight different categories ranging from timeliness to persuasion to performance review evaluation styles.  The results are 


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