With Motives in mind, you can:

  • Empower yourself to be well and thrive in your work life by better meeting your most important needs
  • Better assess which parts of your work life are optimally working for you and which are not
  • Gain new perspective on your work life, increase your emotional intelligence, and better communicate with others in a professional sphere
  • Make the best professional decisions for both your present and future
  • Enhance your ability to motivate yourself and others
  • Identify where you have influence in meeting your own motives, versus where you could use more external support

About Your Results

In the following pages you’ll find, for each of your top 5 motives:

  1. An explanation of what each motive is all about.
  2. A wellness check-In for guided reflection.
  3. A quick and easy met summary to help evaluate the health of your motives. 
  4. Your Motive Story & Wellbeing Plan of Action: an integrative worksheet at the front and end of your results, to help you understand and create your motives story. It helps you think about your motives holistically, have an engaging narrative to share with others and make the most impact in your work life.

How Does This Work?

Our research has identified 28 driving human motives. This assessment determines which 5 of these are currently the most important to you. The data for these 28 motives groups them into 10 Domains, and we’ve named these Domains based on shared qualities of the motives within them. These Domains have a consistent relationship with one another, shown in the Motives Met Circumplex. Your unique Circumplex shows where your motives fall in relation to one another. This provides a way to look at your motives holistically and to compare your motives with the motives of others.

3 Things to Keep in Mind

 

1. All Motives Are Created Equal

All motives are positive and worthy. While we can all take motivation from these 28, we do not take the same amount of motivation from them, nor are we motivated by them in the same ways. No one motive or combination of motives guarantees a great work life or an exceptional company. Exceptional workplaces and work relationships embrace motive diversity. Everyone’s motives are different, valid, and deserve to be met.

 

2. Your Wellbeing is About Your Most Important Motives Right Now

If a motive isn’t in your top 5, it doesn’t mean that it isn’t important to you. It just isn’t one of your deepest needs or sources of motivation in this season. While they seldom change rapidly, motives can change with time, evolving as aspects of your life and career evolve. This assessment measures what is most important to you right now.

 

3. Meeting Motives is Personal, Not A One-Size-Fits-All

Meeting motives takes individualized consideration. Two people can have the same motive, but with very different reasons for why it matters to them, and with different ways it can be best supported and met. These results provide broad, helpful tips and best practices to begin meeting motives. To be most effective, you have to also understand the individual. This is true whether you’re using this assessment to better support yourself or to learn about and support others.