​I'd like to take a guess and say that you have already heard about MBTI, DiSC and other personality tests or psychometric profiling tools that have been used to enable businesses to understand what makes people tick and how we can more effective, but have you heard of Motivational Maps?
 
How can this tool help you?
​Do you know what motivates you?

• Are your areas of focus, meeting your motivational needs? 
• Does your business strategy drive your motivation?
• Is your productivity and bottom line the best it can be? 
• Do you know what motivates each member of your team?

 
If you’ve answered no to any of the above… read on! 
 
Motivational Maps focus on three clusters and nine individual motivators.  Measuring whether you or your team are focused by
 
Achievement
Relationships or
Growth
 
The tool will then look at the individual motivators analysing what drives your motivation but also measuring where you are against what motivates you!  

Why might you need to know that?
 
Its important to know if you are:
An individual | Its a great way to understand where you are at, what you should focus your time on and of course what you can do to help improve your motivation levels
A new business | Understanding you motivators and how you can build those into your new business; vision, mission, strategy and work ethic. This is where it really supported me.
An established business | Understanding what motivates your team, how they work together and identifying focus areas to strength the team as a whole and individuals
 
Let me tell you my story, I'll keep it brief!
 
I made a decision last year to set up my own company and that was probably one of the biggest moves I’ve made in my career to date. I knew WHAT I wanted to do, but I was STUCK, I wasn't sure what to focus on and what was important to me, let alone what would make me different to others in the marketplace.
 
After attending a networking event I met Paul Ward, Black Top Coaching, who presented on Motivational Maps and I was intrigued.
 
Previously I'd only used tools that measure a static factor but Motivational Maps the results adapt over time as the person and their environment changes. It seemed like a great tool to measure and understand; empowerment, motivation, team dynamics and a way to measure equity within the workplace.
 
I have always believed that I am in tune with knowing what my motivators are and where I get enjoyment and thought, it won't tell me anything I don't already know... I knew that I was low on motivation and energy, I'd just left corporate HR after many years and having to lead on COVID and Brexit responses was ready to down tools for a bit, as with so many others within the HR Profession.
 
I met with Paul who talked me through my responses, it was clear that I was low on motivational energy however I found clarity in where I could focus to re-energise and further my motivation. The results shows that I would get motivation from:

• Being an expert in my field
• Being creative
• Being free and having the ability to make choices
• Being agile at what I do
• Being part of the community

 
I quickly realised that I could use this tool to help shape my business so that I would get the most motivation from what I was doing.  I also saw that it would be a great tool to be able to offer customers to increase their awareness and understanding within their businesses and as individual leaders.
 
I started to create my vision focusing on empowerment, agility, and flexibility in my business model. I also built in how I could support the local community and remain an expert in my field. All of these areas became embedded into my value proposition considering my customer, what my offerings might be and also what would help me grow and develop as a business owner and individual.
 
What happen next?
 
As I had adapted my business plan and the fog was beginning to clear I decided that I wanted to take two actions: 
1.Complete a questionnaire to see what changes if any had occurred.
2.Become a licenced practitioner for Motivational Maps
 
The Second Questionnaire
 
There were a few reasons I wanted to complete another questionnaire, one was to understand if the changes I'd implemented would show as a difference in the results. I also wanted to check in and understand whether there had been an improvement on my motivational levels.
 
What can I say.  I felt my motivation, clarity and focus had improved and the motivational map agreed.  My level of motivation had increased by 39% to be an amazing 87%. This meant within the space of a few months, I'd gone from being worryingly demotivated to highly motivated.
 
What else did the report show?
 
It showed that some of my motivational values had changed in importance to me and all but one I was highly motivated it. Whilst there is still an area for improvement, which I’m working on, it’s a great feeling to feel the transformation both in myself but also to see it within data analysis.
 
Why become a licensed practitioner?
 
As I mentioned before, I was aware this would be a great tool for individuals, leaders and businesses to aid them further in their drive to understand their;

• Employees;
• Focus;
• Engagement;
• Drive;
• & how they can improve the bottom line.

 
I feel that motivational maps are a game changer because the tool is looking at what motivational values an individual holds and whether they are being motivated by that at present.
 
It is important to me that my customers are able to measure and obtain rich valuable information that will make a difference to their business, team and themselves.
 
Following on from COVID we have all seen a massive shift in employee expectations, it is much more about what added value the employer can bring to the employee. I feel that motivational maps enables the employer to measure that and so much more.

How could I use Motivational Maps within my business?
 
Motivational maps is a great way to;

• Understand yourself and your team
• Review your business, your strategy and your value proposition
• Understand whether your employees are in the roles that they should be in based on their motivational values
• Become aware of any conflict in the team and the reasons for that
• Understand whether generational gaps are causing concern within the team
• Measure your employee engagement levels,
• Highlight staff who are not motivated within your business so that you can take appropriate action

 
Whilst you can run individual reports you can also compile team reports to really get into the detail and to make that difference!
 
If you'd like to find out more then please contact me, I'd be happy to go through the process, reporting and outcomes in more detail after all:

​This is a great subject for Be You Consultancy & Coaching as we pride ourselves on being authentic and empowering all the individuals, we work with to be the best version of themselves at all times!
 
Why is the world talking about everyone being authentic?
Finally, the working world is getting their head round how to get the best out of each individual and that is to enable and empower them to bring themselves to work.
 
Why?
Well, think about it this way, how often have you had to ‘pretend’ to be someone else when at work? I know for me being a HR professional it was:

• Serious all the time
• Scary (though that is the 'old school' HR model)
• Process driven
• Tells people what to do

 
But who I am is:

• Someone who builds relationships with people on an informal level to enable a working partnership
• To not be scary, after all if someone is struggling with an issue - why in anyone’s mind would you want to be terrifying at that point?
• I have to admit I am process driven, but I also know that to solve problems and get the best out of situations sometimes you need to work in the ‘grey scale’.
• Well yes, sometimes I need to tell people what to do if they are going to put a business at risk, however 99% of the time I want to work with an individual to solve a problem but of course I will say if there is risk involved!

 
How can this work for your business?
It can:

• Drive engagement and accountability
• Enhance effectiveness 
• Improve retention rates (employee turnover)
• Lower absence figures 

 
What if employees can’t bring themselves to work?
It can create pressure and sometimes stress, increased absence levels but most importantly it can make us unhappy and not fulfilled.
 
Think about the amount of time and skill / focus it takes for individuals to not be themselves but to focus on the person that they think they should be. How much energy, concentration and effort must that take to be constantly checking in with themselves?
 
What if, as a business owner you can refocus that energy, concentration and effort to people doing their roles. How much more productive do you think they could be?
 
What if they bring themselves to work and that isn’t right for our business?
With everything in life there has to be a limit, you can still have:

• a dress code but it may be a bit more relaxed.
• expectations as to how people should be i.e. professional, courteous but by empowering staff to be authentic they can they bring their best selves to work.

 
How do you establish that change?
It all works on communication, as with everything in life.

Talk to your staff, explain the reasons behind the change but also start being authentic too - bring the real you to work! This will help your staff to engage with you, trust you, become more engaged with the business and wanting your business to succeed .
 
This is something that both you and your team will need to work at but it will bring change to your business and increase productivity! So why would you not want to do this?
 
Did you know that at Be You whilst we offer HR consultancy, we also can support you with HR support, leadership mentoring, identifying development needs as well as business coaching!
 
As being your authentic self is so important to us at Be You Consultancy and Coaching, we are offering a coaching or mentoring package of four sessions to people who email [email protected] and quote “I’m empowering my authentic self”.  The sessions are on offer for £240 to individuals.
 
Please note that all four sessions need to be booked and paid for in advance, by the 1 March 2023 for the discount to apply.
 
If you want to discuss other ways that, Be You Consultancy and Coaching can assist you or your team then please <contact me>.