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Understanding Motivation & enabling staff & students to shine

Sarah StonesMotivation Specialist

@motivate2engage

Sarah - About me

Lucky to be doing what I love – which is:

Helping others to shine

Appreciative Inquiry

Growth Mindset

Positive Psychology

25 years HR experience

Tribunal Member (PIP & Employment)

Solutions focused

These slides can be downloaded from

www.plainsailingmotivation.co.uk/vbezone

Knowledge

Positive Mindset

SkillsMotivation

Resilience

And……………….since I discovered it….. I realise it is all

Values based Education!• Resilience• Persistence• Grit• Leadership• Self awareness• Self Efficacy

• Learn better

• Think faster

• Find creative solutions

• Achieve more

WE ARE ENGAGED

As well as the positive impact on our mental health, when we are motivated we:

Wikipedia defn:

• Motivation is the reason for people's actions, desires, and needs.

• Motivation is what causes a person to want to repeat a behavior.

• An individual is not motivated by another individual. Motivation comes from within the individual.

• Motivation has been considered as one of the most important reasons that inspires a person to move forward.

When we understand what someone’s INTRINSIC motivators are we can use EXTRINSIC motivators more effectively.

WE ALL HAVE 9 MOTIVATORS

Our motivators affect • our speed of decision making• our attitude to risk and change, • and our focus

as well as our language

Motivational map element

Preferred attitude to

change

Attitude to risk

Speed of change/Decision making

Focus

RelationshipsAverse Avoidance Slow People

Feelings

AchievementMildly Pro Calculated /

PlannedMedium Things

Thinking

GrowthFriendly/ Pro

changePositive Fast/Decisive Ideas

Knowing /Instinct

Relationship MotivatorsThese motivators are highly geared toward FEELING. They reflect the need for security, belonging and recognition. AUDITORY, feeling-orientated people like literally gettingthe picture!

Stories

Examples

Diagrams Analogies

Metaphors

Graphs

AnecdotesPictures

RELATIONSHIP MOTIVATORS

ACHIEVEMENT

MOTIVATORS

Achievement MotivatorsMotivators are THINKING orientated, related to need for control, wealth & expertise. They are very VISUAL. They generally need to SEE lots of information.

References

Proof

EvidenceStatistics

Data

Detail

Growth MotivatorsMotivators are related to knowing, and INTUITION. KNOWING oriented motivators like plain, simple facts – and getting to the executive summary as quickly as possible. KINAESTHETIC

Experiments

Bullet Points

Intuition

SummariesExperience Instinct

GROWTHMOTIVATORS Facts

Exercise

Read the motivator you have and discuss what you of what you could do to support

1. A young person2. A colleague

With this motivator to support or improve their engagement and motivation

So how can we find out what motivates individual’s?

Motivational Maps®

Adults – 14 page report

Youth Maps - 2 different – Simple and Detailed

- Around 7 to 12- & 13 upwards

Both Youth reports come with 3 reports• One for the pupil• One for the parent/guardian• One for a teacher/mentor

So how can we use Motivational Maps® and the information we get from them?

@motivate2engage

We can discover which motivators are important and

see how each motivator is

currently being met – and importantly

which aren’t

Name The Friend The Creator The Expert The Spirit The Searcher The Director The Defender The Builder The Star Motivation Audit

% 1 2 3

Barney 23 18 26 20 22 17 18 18 18 69% 6 9 6

Fergus 17 25 20 27 23 20 19 17 12 55% 4 8 7

Cerys 22 25 23 24 20 18 19 19 10 87% 9 10 3

Jasmine 24 20 20 22 15 21 17 22 19 52% 5 5 7

Geordie 26 23 22 22 23 21 15 10 18 88% 10 6 10

Mark 18 26 26 25 20 22 15 13 15 74% 7 8 8

Dan 22 22 18 25 17 22 17 17 20 42% 5 3 3

Darcey 30 24 29 18 22 9 21 11 16 85% 10 5 10

Louella 24 17 19 19 22 20 24 17 18 96% 10 10 6

Sasha 19 25 22 20 20 28 8 13 25 87% 8 10 9

William 23 22 16 23 24 17 15 22 18 67% 5 10 7

Lillie 24 17 21 21 17 16 25 25 14 71% 6 10 5

Sarah 23 21 23 18 24 19 22 15 15 59% 7 5 2

Kaleef 21 28 29 18 24 18 19 13 10 22% 1 4 4

Joe 20 18 23 25 22 20 16 19 17 74% 8 7 5

Arshiya 18 22 23 23 14 17 24 18 21 65% 6 7 8

Example Class Data Table

Top Motivator

Second Motivator

Third Motivator

Lowest Motivator

Team Motivation Score: 64%

Change Index Score: 62

RAG: 32-32-36

Staff Teams

Team Data Table Top Motivator

Second Motivator

Third Motivator

Lowest Motivator

Team Motivation Score: 72%

Change Index Score: 70

RAG: 31-29-40

Name Searcher Creator Expert Spirit Friend Defender Star Director Builder Motivation Audit

% 1 2 3

Michaela 26 21 23 22 15 15 19 24 15 95% 10 9 8

Anne 33 30 21 21 9 10 23 24 9 90% 9 9 9

Mariana 29 22 19 18 23 19 13 17 20 65% 7 6 5

Sean 23 19 24 28 19 20 11 15 21 39% 2 7 6

Andy 27 17 21 21 21 26 22 16 9 59% 9 1 2

Anna 26 21 25 16 22 18 19 17 16 90% 9 9 9

Charlotte 30 34 23 13 13 11 25 13 18 75% 7 10 3

Michelle 27 21 24 20 23 22 14 15 14 70% 7 7 7

Catherine 27 16 23 21 23 29 14 13 14 67% 7 6 7

Debra 32 25 22 25 22 14 18 13 9 74% 8 6 8

Total 280 226 225 205 190 184 178 167 145 72%

Do you have someone in mind whose mental health or

engagement is a concern?Talk to me today or email me at sarah@plainsailingmotivation.co.ukand I will send you a complimentary map link and do a 30 minute feedback session.

How I work

• 1-1 with all, especially disengaged & SEND• Workshops & Lessons for PSHE, choosing

options and career guidance• CPD sessions• Work 1-1 with private clients - adults and young

people and with families• Free Understanding Motivation sessions for

parents

@motivate2engage

www.plainsailingmotivation.co.uk

07816178616

Contact us or email sarah@plainsailingmotivation.co.uk

@motivate2engage