"Good mentors at work spend a lot of time understanding what makes their mentees tick career goals, skill building ambitions, anxieties, the specifics of current assignments. The best mentors will probe deeper, into what truly motivates the individual. But institutionally, we have no language and no common standards for understanding worker motivation. Conventional worker-typing systems (such as MBTI) and human personality profiling systems like the respected Five Factor Model are silent on motivation. Understanding your own archetype can lead directly to a deeper appreciation for why you like or don't like the role you have in your organization. It can point you to changes that would improve your satisfaction with work. At the same time, from the point of view of the firm, understanding the motivation of your team members will enable more nuance in team design, work assignment, performance evaluation and career path planning better than anything you have today besides your most accomplished mentors. The author's research points to six distinct worker archetypes anchored on differing motivations, introduced in this book. The model he outlines allows for your archetype to evolve with time (unlike MBTI) and recognizes that workers may draw on several archetypes in their work behavior"-- Provided by publisher.
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