Ask each team member to rank their motivators into one of five levels or "swim lanes" from bottom level (score = 0) to top level (score = 4)
Add the total number of points for each motivator for the team as a whole.
Use this data to build a radar chart. Discuss the outcome: was the chart what you expected?
Publish the chart in the team workplace, in a visible place.
Optionally, you can also publish the moving motivators made by each single team member.
- Share what drives every member of the team
- Visualize how these motivators sum up to create "the motivators" for the whole team
- Spot new coaching opportunities
(large credits to Rich Atherton)
- Explain the game and the ten motivators to the team. Answer questions and ensure a good clarification in the beginning.
- Play Part I – ordering the ten motivators by their importance
- Team sync activity – every team member explains to all others his/her ordering of the ten motivators.
- Play Part II – ranking each motivator in a scale from 0 to 8 (0 – completely not motivated to 8 – Very high motivation) to express his/her current level of motivation
- Team sync activity – every team member explains to all others his/her ranking of each motivator.
- Let the team discuss about their observations and experience with the game.
- Explain the team, that you’ll summarize the teams output and send it to everyone (like this one https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AQVsiof0WWy0lATvKSfjMWnwskFctxhdZOG8dqEEzJw/edit#gid=1)
http://agilethings.nl/what-thrives-a-team-and-each-individual-member/
Hold a retrospective, where the moving motivators is the core part.
- Explain each of the ten motivators plenary
- Ask to each participant "What do you find important in your job?". Let them order the ten motivators by their relative importance in their job.
- Together, ask these questions
- "What motivates you the most and can you explain why?"
- "What motivates you the least and can you explain why?"
- Ask to each participant "How does your daily work reflect into the motivators?". Let them think whether to shift up or down their motivators.
- Together, ask these questions
- "What happened with the most important motivator? Did it shift? Which way? Why?"
- "What is the most important motivator that shifted up and why?"
- "What is the most important motivator that shifted down and why?"
- Plot the data into some graphs, like a team radar chart and a bar chart
- Print the results for each team member: both individual and team results.
- Put the team results on the wall and discuss them with the team.
- Pay extra attention to the most important motivators that didn’t shift or shifted downwards.
