- Genre:business & economics
- Sub-genre:Education
- Language:English
- Pages:502
- eBook ISBN:9798990634886
Book details
Overview
The Motivation Blueprint, is a design and implementation manual for managers and leaders. It guides you to create and foster motivational work environments that ultimately lead to higher performing teams. This book delves into tasks like goal setting, performance appraisals, delivering feedback, expectation setting, and even having difficult conversations. In other words, it is a blueprint for what leaders and managers can do to support motivation. It provides checklists, frameworks, examples, scenarios, and tools you can immediately apply to your work as you support the three basic psychological needs all humans have–autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Based on the rigorously researched theory of Self-Determination, this book also addresses those high-impact activities at a systems level as they pertain to processes, politics, power, ethics, trust, DEI, and all with psychological safety as the underpinning foundation. The Motivation Blueprint is the atlas that crosses the entirety of what a manager and leader should consider, do, and ultimately master. With forewords by Richard M. Ryan and Jacques Forest. Published by LDA Press, an imprint of the Learning Development Accelerator.
Description
The Motivation Blueprint cuts through decades of myths about incentives, engagement, and behavior change to offer a practical, evidence-informed guide to designing work that people actually want to do. Grounded in Self-Determination Theory, this book reframes motivation as a property of systems. It shows why incentives so often backfire, why engagement initiatives underdeliver, and how everyday design choices shape whether people internalize goals, sustain effort, and perform well over time. Across real workplace cases, diagnostic tools, and design frameworks, The Motivation Blueprint helps managers and leaders across all organizational domains understand how autonomy, competence, and relatedness are either supported or undermined by everyday decisions. It explains how motivation develops over time and why the quality of motivation matters more than quantity. The book shares what it actually takes to build environments where people can flourish while getting their work done. Clear, pragmatic, and relentlessly grounded in evidence, The Motivation Blueprint replaces quick fixes with durable design principles. Motivation improves when work is designed to support it. With forewords by Richard M. Ryan and Jacques Forest. Published by LDA Press, an imprint of the Learning Development Accelerator.
