Essential Motivators™
Boost collaboration by better understanding what motivates yourself and others. Essential Motivators™ provides a framework to help learners identify their core psychological needs, values, talents, and behaviors.
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Uncover core strengths and needs
Essential Motivators teaches an easy-to-apply system of four patterns—Air, Earth, Fire, and Water—that helps people become more comfortable with themselves and more collaborative and effective with others.
- ✓Discover their superpower—who they are at their core and their special skills
- ✓Understand themselves at a deeper level and how their core needs influence them
- ✓Learn to accept others for who they are and what they need
- ✓Work more effectively with others, improve communication, and resolve conflict
Understanding employee motivators equips you to meet their needs
higher capacity to focus when employees feel their needs have been met
higher level of engagement
greater likelihood to stay at the company
1. Harvard Business Review
Understand Different Perspectives To Fuel Deeper Collaboration
The Essential Motivators framework was developed by author and expert Linda Berens, who has over forty years of experience in teaching people to recognize their strengths, transcend their weaknesses, and work together better.
Increase Effectiveness
Organizational effectiveness rises as people learn to recognize others' core needs.
Improve Employee Engagement
Learn how core needs influence motivation, career satisfaction, and communication.
Boost Empathy
Increases appreciation for diversity and inclusion as people shift perspectives.
Deepen Collaboration
Strengthens relationships and understanding of each other's perspectives.
Delivery Options to Meet Your Needs
Essential Motivators can be delivered in person, as virtual sessions, as part of a learning journey, or in a self-directed online or moderated online version.
One-Day Instructor-Led Course
Essential Motivators is a one-day in-person session based on an easy-to-understand theory of temperament.
- Pre-Work: LAUNCH — Participants engage in a self-study eLearning module (about 25 minutes).
- LEARN & PRACTICE — 8-hour in-person session with interactive group exercises and videos.
- Learners dive deep into the four patterns: Fire, Earth, Air, and Water.
Ready to understand what motivates your team?
Contact us today to learn how we can help your leaders learn the skills they need to be more effective.