What Inner Process Motivates You Most Powerfully? Discover your happiness process orientation and how your life is impacted by the 6 core processes that motivate us towards integral well-being. Gain essential insights into the strengths and weaknesses of your motivational processes so you can make better choices and realize a life of greater well-being. Wealth You have a more democratic style of leadership – where you make it a point of soliciting feedback from each member of your team. After all, you know that if every team member feels valued – you’re far more likely to get the best out of them to accomplish your team’s goals. The good news is that this collaborative style of management can be powerful at building a sense of teamwork and buy-in for any big decisions. However, you should take extra steps to ensure that collaboration doesn’t slow your team down. Sometimes as a manager, you need to be decisive – and with deadlines looming, make the quick and occasionally unpopular decision. But as a collaborative manager, your team should be okay with this – they’ll know that their opinions matter, and that you will reach out to them as circumstances allow. Position Now at first glance, you might think the word authoritative has a bit of a negative connotation. But we disagree – there’s always a place in teams for calm, firm leadership to keep things on track. Sure, collaboration and cooperation all have their place – but carried too far, teams can be at risk of losing their way. In this increasingly fast-paced world, managers that embrace these traits can prove incapable of making the quick decisions required to succeed. A word of caution however – it can be tempting to adopt a ‘I know best’ attitude, and try and make ALL the decisions. Continuous micromanagement can demotivate high performers, especially in the creative and high tech industries. We recommend a ‘less is more’ approach – where you save your authoritarian moments for the most critical or time-sensitive situations. Your teams will stay flexible, happy, while on track towards their objectives. Power You’re the type of manager who’s a born coach. Your team members are important to you on a personal level, and you excel at encouraging all of your reports to grow, strive, and improve. Mentoring works best with small teams – as it requires a level of 1:1 attention that can prove difficult to scale up into larger organizations. If you have more than 7-8 direct reports, we recommend you adopt a different style to suit your bigger team. One thing to watch out for – coaching only works where you have noticeably more skills and experience than your team. Certain personality types also can be resistant to the mentoring approach – so you might need to adjust your approach based on who are on your team. Fame You have a more democratic style of leadership – where you make it a point of soliciting feedback from each member of your team. After all, you know that if every team member feels valued – you’re far more likely to get the best out of them to accomplish your team’s goals. The good news is that this collaborative style of management can be powerful at building a sense of teamwork and buy-in for any big decisions. However, you should take extra steps to ensure that collaboration doesn’t slow your team down. Sometimes as a manager, you need to be decisive – and with deadlines looming, make the quick and occasionally unpopular decision. But as a collaborative manager, your team should be okay with this – they’ll know that their opinions matter, and that you will reach out to them as circumstances allow. Pleasure Virtue How important is it to you to achieve financial abundance and prosperity in your life? How much do you dislike having a low position in life or that others look down upon what you do? How important is it to you to be well recognized for who you are and what are your talents? How much do you dislike the flaws of your character or in being less than you can be? How important is it to you have a life full of enjoyable experiences and create a pleasurable lifestyle? How much do you dislike being unable to make a difference in the world with your life or in being powerless to affect changes? How important is it to you to have achieved a position of authority and to have respect from others in your life? How much do you dislike having to go through boring experiences or tend to act as to avoid unpleasantness? How important is it to you to be able to affect changes in the world with your life and to exercise power for the good? How much do you tend to dislike not meeting your financial goals or worry in ending up broke? How important is it to you to have realized a great character or to perfect your moral / ethical self? How much do you dislike in being a ‘nobody’ and to be viewed as insignificant in your world?