The Discovery & Alignment Unlocking Our Intrinsic of True Purpose Motivators Dr Wood believes that we are ‘entering an age of purpose’ and that in order for organisations to progress there needs to become a much more visible and recognised alignment between the purpose of each individual within the organisation and the overall purpose of the business.
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What’s the one most important thing that drives you when you are studying in class or revising at home? What’s your ultimate goal and where do Developing a new metric you want to end up? There are different drivers that fuel each of us to achieve our goals and Once an organisation has unlocked employee be successful. And success itself even means motivators and aligned the multiple individual something different to us all. University lecturer, purposes with the overall ambition, we are in Stating that ‘few organisations actually know Simon, believes for his students the definition of business. Organisations can then develop an integral why they do what they do’, Dr Wood added that success is to ‘get rich’; and for Jane, representative governance framework that helps to make better purpose is also probably the most neglected topic from The Crown Estate, it’s ‘our total contribution decisions at all levels. If you want to measure value you have to measure it in lots of capitals; and that’s in the boardroom. “People aren’t interested in to society’. where the Seven Capitals of ThriveAbility come what you do or how you do it, they are interested in why you do it.” The most powerful motivation for people is into play to build an autopoetic fractal system. intrinsic. This means that it’s very natural and How can we create this alignment? It starts by personal to us as individuals and that it’s something first identifying our own purpose as individuals. we feel very deeply. Unfortunately, we tend to go Business leaders need to create opportunities through most of our day-to-day life without fully What is your personal for individuals to express and work towards their grasping hold of that intrinsic motivation. It’s like personal goals, as well as creating spaces for an untapped resource within all of us waiting to purpose? How does that employees to work together in pursuit of their be freed, and that’s where the responsibility of the align with the purpose of shared ambition as an employee of the organisation. leader comes in to enable that intrinsic motivation your: classmates, colleagues to be released. If we can bring that consciousness and organisations? “People are really hungry to connect with other into the workplace, we can catalyze an people,” states Dr Wood, “and being disconnected evolutionary shift that’s autopoietic. Autopoiesis means is totally disempowering. If you’re an inspired leader self-creating or self-producing, you are communicating from the inside out”. and refers to a system capable of If we want a thriveable habitat, leaders need to reproducing and maintaining itself. learn more about where people are coming from, Which of course is the overall purpose what drives them and how to unleash their fullest of life on earth... to produce potential. life on earth.
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