Archive for motivation

Webinar Wrap-Up: If you have a brain, you have biases. How do we manage them?

In last week’s webinar, we explored the neuroscience of bias, helping us understand how to recognize the many ways it influences our responses and actions. More importantly, we identified several actions you can take to help to mitigate its impact in our lives. You can watch the complete…

Leveraging Self-Awareness to Support Self-Regulation

Each of us takes a unique approach to the world; we have things that drive us, energize us, and attract us, and things that drain us or even repel us. In this moment, while we are all navigating an unfamiliar and challenging set of circumstances, these motivations feel…

Don’t Wait for an SOS – Teams that Need Help Aren’t Always in Crisis

In an increasingly collaborative working world, healthy professional relationships are often the key to getting things done efficiently and effectively. Yet when it comes to development, many organizations focus almost entirely on individual development – of leaders, of high potentials, even of at-risk employees – and leave team…

Changing Course: How the IDI Changed my Path at MRG (part 2)

In part one, Christine described her arrival at MRG and her slow realization that her motivations weren’t aligning with her job description – and it was draining her every day. Read on to find out how she sought to better sync her drivers with her task. There I…

Changing Course: How the IDI Changed my Path at MRG (part 1)

When I coach, one of the things people have a hard time reconciling is their self-perception of what they’re good at vs. what gives them energy. People can spend years toiling in a position, maybe even delivering great results and being successful, but wondering why they’re still so…

Independent and in Control: a New Twist on a Familiar IDI Score Combination

The Individual Directions Inventory (IDI) is a tool that never ceases to amaze me. One of the primary reasons for this is the fact that it continuously allows me to learn about people’s complexity and how motivational drives manifest themselves in seemingly infinite combinations. Even more fascinating is…

Webinar Wrap-Up: Q&A and Key Takeaways from our Inside Look at the IDI Team Development Report

The IDI Team Development Report was released on May 31, and in those few short weeks it’s generated plenty of buzz. Few people know, however, that this solution was actually road tested well before its release – not just internally at MRG, but in 10 different projects facilitated…

Seeing Each Other in a New Light: Experiencing the IDI Team Development Report

The “Growth & Outreach” team at MRG recently began working through a process with the new IDI Team Development Report. As it is a new product developed from the storied Individual Directions InventoryTM, we were all excited to see how this new tool would be able to provide…