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Jason Mance Gordon
The Business Professor
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Okay so what I'd like to talk to you about today is the role of motivation in your career
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path choice and performance on the job. Well, we understand that engaged effort that is a conscious awareness of your effort and
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the objectives that you're trying to achieve that you're fully devoted to that effort yields
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higher performance. Well, not everything that we do is going to fully engage us
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When we're looking for career paths or types of jobs or positions that we may hold, one
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position may give us what we need. It may meet those internal or intrinsic needs or values or the environment around that position
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might in some way meet that. So when you're undertaking any career, position, task, etc., your level of engagement is going
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to improve your performance. Engagement itself like we just said is a cognitive state It your mental outlook towards that task that job that position etc Now motivation itself helps breed engagement
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That is, if those external factors in some way coincide with or meet your internal needs
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or values, that it will drive you in that way to fulfill or to complete that task or
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to undertake that series of tasks in a way that yields a higher level of performance
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What you should understand about this is that it's not generally what you're doing in your job
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It's the factors both internal and external that are going to motivate you and thereby
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achieve a greater degree of engagement in your efforts. That being said, if you look at prior management theory that a happy worker is a good worker
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well that largely been disproven simply for the fact that happiness may be one factor that engages an employee but what is because it is a motivating factor that hey if I can achieve a level of happiness in my position that will be more highly motivated
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or more highly engaged in the task. But what studies have actually seen is that employees
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who are engaged in the possibility of achieving success that there are these internal factors
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that you hope to meet or fulfill, whether it's more money, autonomy, recognition, whatever
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And then there's these external factors that give you that, whether it's your work environment
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your team, your supervisors, your subordinates, et cetera, that in some way fulfill that need
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or want. Now, your ability to work and continue to foster how that external environment meets your internal
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needs, that is what generally engages the employee and keeps them in pursuit of that
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state of happiness So in that sense it really is the journey but the journey is a constant engaged effort to achieve something that meets your internal needs
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What I hope you get from this is to understand that the external factors that affect your
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internal needs is what motivates you. If you're highly motivated, you're going to be more engaged in the task, job or career
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And, studies have shown that you as an employee, if you can find a career path that keeps you
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motivated or engaged in your routine or random functions on a daily basis, you will perform
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higher and it will urge you on to be more fulfilled by your position
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So with that in mind, the next step is start to identify what at your current state you're
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internal needs are and how external factors can affect those internal needs to motivate
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you and thereby engage you in your efforts
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