Okay.
In our last video, we talked about the internal factors.
Our internal personal needs or wants that drive us.
That can relate to some way that a position or career path can fulfill in us and that
what is going to motivate us and create engaged effort in our task or in our job or in our
career path.
So, let's look at the external factors.
That means basically what is it that the job itself.
The actual position or the career path, the series of jobs that wait in the future that
drive you, the one that meet the internal need or want that you have at this point in
time in your career or that you recognize that you will need to be fulfilled.
So, again, that it motivates you to increase that level of engage implement.
So, we will be going to focus on, like what I say, the independent variables out there.
The factors that the job force, that the job environment can offer and the three big categories
or those are the organizational scheme that is how your team structure.
How your reporting is.
The level of autonomy versus how closely you're over staying on the employment.
The social factors that is how the position itself for your duties or is it seen by others?
So, again, how others see you in the position at your ability to interact with others.
Are you isolated?
Are you a person who can deal openly with customers, clients, co-workers, etc.?
And then, the leadership structure.
How, what is it like, what type of position you are in, does it have leadership, responsibilities?
What is your again, relationship and leadership structure like with report, direct reports
or subordinates and likewise.
The individuals who are leaders to you.
Leadership is the ability to inspire and motivate.
So, leadership is not synonymous with management.
Different management styles may have a leadership function that is that is through their management
techniques.
They, individuals can also be leaders.
So, through that, you as well can be motivated yourself and the way that individuals look
towards you as a leader and how you employ your management techniques.
Again, can be a factor, therefore, how you're motivated in the workforce.
So, let's look at some very specific or very well understood or known external factors
that of how the job place or how the job environment or career path motivates you.
So, there's always the demotivational aspect there of the negative consequences.
You do this or there's negative consequences associated with it.
You're fired.
Right?
And then there's a converse, the converse to that, the other side of that is, if you
do extremely well, we'll give you more benefits, more resources for your efforts.
Now, some may like this, maybe in sales or you know, sales commissions or bonuses or
things like that are common but also, that if you do well, you'll move up, you'll get
more money, but these are the most common understood but there are so many other factors
again like what we discussed before.
Such as your reporting environment, the level of autonomy you have, etc. that could motivate
you far more than simply focusing on the stick.
The taken care approach.
You know, don't do well, you're fired.
Hey, you did well, I will give you more resources.
So, work-life balance is huge when the ability if you get your work done, to be done with
that project, to cut off, to leave early, to be able to balance your work with your
personal life.
To have time with friends and family or outside of the workplace means so much you.
Could it be that you undertake or allowed to undertake enjoyable activities at work
and that\'92s somehow motivates you?
Musicians, it's an enjoyable activity for them generally.
Now, does it require engaged practice again?
Yes.
But it's this environment, the ability to undertake or do what they love that causes
them to practice so hard to be engaged in a constant effort to improve what they do.
Okay, so the enjoyment activity, your reporting structure.
Do you have autonomy or is there straight hierarchical structure in place and how do
you respond to the structure?
Recognition.
Okay?
Is there an award system or some level of notoriety that comes along with what you've
achieved?
Right?
Are you the salesperson of the month?
Employee of the month?
Are you, in some ways, is your name attached to the work so you the recognition associated
with it?
Is it creative output?
You need some finished product that you can be proud of.
A publication, a scientific experiment, a building that you created, a piece of artwork
that you created.
Anything in that nature, that okay, there's the finish product and again, that creative
output.
Your ability to move up.
This is the most common to five people seek.
Retracts.
Even when they're not totally motivated by their task or their reporting structure or
their particular life or whatever.
The ability to move up for the future that sits on the other side of a level of effort
sometimes motivates individuals sufficiently that they will stay engaged in their task.
Tamer group work assignments, do you work individually?
Do you work in group routines?
And which one of these motivates you more?
Which one is going to keep you engaged in the effort and then purpose or mission, right?
What you're trying to achieve if the objectives that you have for your goals.
This is super common sense, without premiers or say activists or in certain non-profit
type ventures.
Where is the goal or objective in the understanding that you'll never, that you may never solve
it but the fact that you worked towards it or this so called objective, that you hope
to achieve or hope to make an impact on and in some way continues to motivate you.
So, in summary, if you understand a position that stay or career track that exists in a
given career field, that you understand how it's how those external factors whether that's
money, education, benefits, health benefits, travel, time off, etc. how that company attempts
to motivate you and then understand what the work environment is like.
The day-to-day structure, the overall environment and things like that and how that will affect
you and understand the future potential of that position or future positions to the benefits,
autonomy, recognition, etc. and how all these interplay along with your traditional understanding
of additional resources etc.
All of these things will go in making the determination of what position you pursue
and what career track you follow.
So again, if you understand this extremely well, you will set yourself off on the right
foot in looking to working towards choosing a career, career path to pursue.
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