Name : Chris Parker Test Taken on : 4 Oct, 2003
	Personalized Motivation Report

Chris, you are highly ambitious and are a go-getter. Typically, you are ready to take advantage of opportunities that help you to achieve their goals. You are generally more adept than other people at recognizing those opportunities in the first place, as well as appreciating their significance. Indeed, your optimism is such that you have a tendency to see a threat or setback as a challenge and hence as a chance to progress... Those individuals whose personal attributes include this kind of initiative are also prepared to persist when others are ready to give up. The old adage 'if at first you don't succeed try, try again' can be applied to them, and it is this kind of determination that underpins the ability to find new ways of solving technical problems or meeting clients' needs. Thus, when faced with established working practices and rules and regulations that are preventing them from getting on with the job in hand, these go-getters are skilled at devising and implementing creative ways of getting round them. For them it would seem that necessity is the mother of invention. Because their initiative, persistence and enterprise is often coupled with an enthusiasm for what they are doing, such people are usually good at winning the support and cooperation of others... Report Continues... Motivation Index An incentive is a reward offered to an individual or group in order to induce the person(s) to work harder, perform better or learn more effectively - in short, to persuade him, her or them to behave in a preferred way. Its objective, therefore, is to motivate. Praise, rewards, prizes, honours and bonuses are commonly used as incentives in a wide variety of circumstances ranging from the relationships between two people (e.g. parent and child) through to how a large corporation seeks to manage the performance of its workforce. In the short term, deterrents such as scolding, penalties and punishments may have the same effect, but the chances are that they will eventually induce behaviours that are the opposite of those intended - that is, they will demotivate rather than motivate. Using deterrents and incentives in conjunction with each other, as is usually done, is often referred to as adopting a 'carrot and stick' approach to motivation... A common feature of incentives and deterrents is that they are being used in an attempt to drive behaviour from outside, and not from within individuals or groups. It is important, therefore, to distinguish between motivation that is a response to incentives and inducements offered by others, and that which comes from within us. The former is normally referred to as 'extrinsic motivation' whereas that which is generated internally is known as 'intrinsic motivation'. In order to behave in an emotionally intelligent way you need to be able to recognize how, in any given situation, your behaviour, and that of others, may be being driven - sometimes in different directions - by the complex interplay of motives originating from these two sources... Report Continues... What do I want to achieve in life? Consider the following list of life goals. Pick out the ones that are important to you. Now put them in rank order starting with the one that you regard as being the most important. to become a famous celebrity; to fulfil my potential; to earn as high a salary as possible; to indulge myself and to have as much pleasure as possible; to enjoy friendship and good companionship; to be independent and free from the demands of other people; to help the disadvantaged; to reach a position of power and authority; to make my parents proud of my achievements; to be a good parent and partner; to have a satisfying and worthwhile career; to have a secure and trouble-free life; other goals (add your own). When you have made your list you should ask yourself a number of questions such as: Are you devoting your time and energy to achieving those things that you think are really important to you? If so, what are the consequences? What aspirations have you not yet fulfilled? Are you prepared to pay the price in order to achieve them? Report Continues... Report for: Chris Parker