# Personal Motivators and Responses to Change

### Decisions and planning

If you draw a horizontal lifeline that represents your journey from birth to the present day, and cross the lifeline with a vertical line for all your major decisions, you may discover how significant your decision-making process is. Here's an example.

The life creator: if you always do what you have always done, you'll always get what you have got!

Explore the idea of your life as a movie of which you are the director. If you were to write the screenplay for the rest of your life, what would it be like? What would you do if there were no barriers in the way?

### Values: put them in order of priority for you

How important to you are these work values?

1. | SECURITY | Freedom from worry; safety, certainty.
2. | STATUS | The state or condition of a person in the eyes of others.
3. | COMPENSATION | Equivalent in value or effect for services rendered; pay or remuneration.
4. | ACHIEVEMENT | Accomplishment of objective, task, project or goal; a thing done successfully.
5. | ADVANCEMENT | To improve or progress.
6. | AFFILIATION | Fellow workers or associates, desire to associate with like beings.
7. | RECOGNITION | Special notice or attention for individual or team effort.
8. | AUTHORITY | The power or right to command, direct, or manage.
9. | INDEPENDENCE | Freedom from the control of another.
10. | ALTRUISM | Concern for the welfare of others.
11. | CREATIVITY | Finding new, improved ways to do anything. The urge to innovate.
12. | ETHICAL HARMONY | Importance of moral values and environmental concerns.
13. | INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION | Mental electricity; encourages, supports, and promotes thinking.
14. | VARIETY | Diversity of activity, tasks and people; wide spectrum.
15. | AESTHETIC | Desire for beauty in work setting and surroundings.

### Personal qualities

What personal qualities do you admire?

What personal qualities do you not admire?

### Needs

What are your employment needs?

### Relationship worksheet

What do you expect from your employer?

Characteristics | Importance
--- | ---
| Very important | Important | Not important
Similarity in work values |  |  |
Mutual respect |  |  |
Openness |  |  |
Shared goals |  |  |
Cooperativeness |  |  |
Understanding |  |  |
Caring |  |  |
Helping |  |  |
Fairness |  |  |
Consideration |  |  |
Loyalty |  |  |
Trust |  |  |
Encouragement |  |  |
Flexibility |  |  |
Praise |  |  |
Reward |  |  |
Interest |  |  |

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