Moving Motivators
Moving Motivators is a card-based exercise that helps individuals and teams explore their intrinsic and extrinsic motivations in the workplace. By ranking and discussing these motivators, participants gain a deeper understanding of what drives them and how change impacts their motivation.
Use this method when you want to foster self-awareness within a team, understand individual responses to organizational change, or facilitate more informed decision-making based on motivational factors.
Solves: Lack of understanding of individual motivations within a team, difficulty navigating organizational change, misaligned priorities.
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Step 1: (5 min) Introduce the 10 motivators (CHAMPFROGS: Curiosity, Honor, Acceptance, Mastery, Power, Freedom, Relatedness, Order, Goal, Status). Briefly explain each one.
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Step 2: (10 min) Individually, have each participant rank the motivator cards from least important (left) to most important (right).
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Step 3: (15 min) Present a hypothetical change scenario (e.g., new project, role change, company restructuring).
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Step 4: (15 min) For each motivator, ask participants to move the card up if the change positively impacts that motivator, and down if it negatively impacts it.
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Step 5: (15 min) Facilitate a group discussion about the results. What motivators are most affected? What does this tell us about the change and its potential impact?
- Encourage participants to define what each motivator means to them personally before ranking.
- Emphasize that there are no right or wrong answers; the goal is self-discovery and shared understanding.
- Use the exercise to explore team values instead of individual motivations.
- Apply the method to personal life decisions outside of work.