Learn why close supervision quietly demotivates skilled technical people, and how Daniel Pink's autonomy, mastery and purpose offer a better set of levers. Run a motivation audit on a real team and redesign the management approach around intrinsic drive rather than control.
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What you'll learn
- Explain why extrinsic carrots-and-sticks motivation underperforms on complex knowledge work
- Describe Daniel Pink's three intrinsic drivers — autonomy, mastery and purpose
- Diagnose where a technical team's autonomy, mastery or purpose is being undermined
- Redesign a micromanaging management approach around intrinsic motivation
- Produce a Motivation Audit Worksheet covering autonomy, mastery and purpose for your team
Syllabus
Why Control Demotivates Technical Teams
The hidden cost of micromanagementFree preview
Why carrots and sticks fail on knowledge work
Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose
Autonomy — the freedom to self-direct
Mastery and purpose — growth and meaning
Applying Intrinsic Motivation to IT Work
Running a motivation audit on your team
Case study — the three-times-a-day check-in
Making Motivation Stick
Building your Motivation Audit Worksheet
Common traps and sustaining intrinsic motivation