KEY MOTIVATORS
KEY DESCRIPTIONS
Money
With money as one of your top motivators, it is essential
that you feel appropriately paid for your services, also that
there are options to increase and improve your income
over time. Monetary recognition is a critical reflection of
your work, its worth, and for you to achieve your personal
goals. Therefore, your workplace conversations should be
open and honest around money, career pathways,
incentives, bonus structures and financial rewards, or you
may not find yourself fulfilled long-term.
Appreciation
With appreciation as one of your top motivators, it is
essential that you feel validation and gratitude from your
boss, managers, or direct reports. Appreciation can come
in many ways: verbal appraisal, financial recognition,
quality time, or feedback. Therefore, you must seek
regular meetings with your boss or supervisors and
communicate which type of acknowledgement is essential
to you, or you may not be fulfilled long-term.
Recognition
With recognition as one of your top motivators, you care
what your peers, friends, and colleagues think, including
industry validation. You seek formal/informal evidence to
show that your time, investment, and service are valued.
You hold deliberate and public acts of recognition in high
regard. This could be anything from industry awards to
personal acknowledgment, testimonials, feedback, and
praise, both verbally or through meaningful gestures. You
like to see others happy and prosperous because of your
collaborative efforts and contributions. It would help if you
communicated how much you value feedback from work
colleagues and friends, or you may not find yourself
fulfilled long-term.
Responsibility
With responsibility as one of your top motivators, roles,
titles, involvement in decision-making, structured career
pathways, and positions of authority are very important to
you. You want to be part of the bigger picture and take
your role seriously. You see additional responsibility as
recognition of your valuable contribution to the workplace
and a sign that you are achieving your goals. You must
communicate your need for career progression and seek
opportunities that will challenge you and improve your
position of influence, or you may not find yourself fulfilled
long-term.
Meaningful Service
With meaningful service as one of your top motivators, you
are driven by purposeful work and client outcomes. You
like to know that the services you provide are helping
others and that your contributions to the workplace and
community make a notable difference. Feedback from
your colleagues, supervisors and community must reflect
the personal connections and meaningful work you are
doing. It should highlight your services' benefits on
people's lives, or you may not find yourself fulfilled long-
term.
Investment
With investment as one of your top motivators, you feel
appreciated when there is an active and deliberate
investment into your personal and professional
development. Whether through mentoring, additional
resources, research, up-skilling, or education, you value
regular input supporting your growth and advancement. It
would help if you communicated how much investment
into ongoing learning opportunities means to you, or you
may not find yourself fulfilled long-term.
Autonomy
With autonomy as one of your top motivators, you must
have a degree of freedom, self-determination, and work-
life-integration. You value the flexibility to adjust work
commitments around external responsibilities, family, and
personal needs to achieve the desired balance. Adapting
your schedule whilst also having the trust of those you
directly report to is essential. It would help if you were
transparent in your conversations about the level of
autonomy you seek and what it means to you or you may
not find yourself fulfilled long-term.
