My goal is helping others. Helping others makes me feel good, and I work at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. When you go to the main hospital and see the patients' faces, you get motivated that you are apart of a larger community that is focused on helping others and making a difference. The biggest motivator for me is making a difference for patient's experience and PI's experience at MSK. My second motivator is that my work is both exciting and challenging. I'm also ambitious, I've been at Sloan for 5 years and have had 3 different roles. I love the people and as Dr. Simon mentions in lecture you spend most of your day at work and it can be a "social" club. Working in a great environment with people you like makes going to work very enjoyable. I'm very engaged with work and look to improve process and will put in extra time to get more done than just the minimum. I think if you love your job, there will be a direct, positive impact on the performance of the departments projects/deals. If you're surrounded with other motivated people, they will help increase the departments productivity.
In WSJ Article The Secret to Motivating Your Team I found as mentioned in lecture that everyone has different motivations. In the article it goes on to say, "That's the magic of managing talented people – making them feel they are participating in something valuable, something unique, something out of the ordinary. The manager's job is to get his team to make a commitment – to each other, to the goals of the group, to a cause that is greater than themselves. That commitment, it turns out, is worth more than gold" I do think having motivated people is key to having a successful project/business, but as we mentioned in lecture it is the manager's responsibility to develop their employees.
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I like the way my company motivates each team of us. We have 5 different full teams, each team consists of sales engineer, technical engineers, and PM team. At the beginning of the year, top management distributes the cotta of the year on the five team. which motivate each team to get their goal on monthly bases, quarterly bases, and yearly bases. So, it creates an internal challenge between the teams. Also, the company created a rewarding program for each team get their cotta. and have a monthly team build. with team members and their families. It creates a nice family working environment, and improve the communication between team members.
Despite the objectives, age and at what arrange you are at in life, the factors that motivate one will be different, which includes:
Money
Independence- To feel in charge of your own life
Security- job security, financial security, peace of mind
Status/Power/Prestige
Self-esteem/The good feeling you get from getting the task done
Despite what keeps you energetic and what moves you to make a move, the primary concern is an inborn desire to be better, to accomplish what you have characterized for you just like "your best". Regardless of whether you will likely be a more beneficial individual, or enhance your business, you are striving for improvement in your personal or professional life.
I stay motivated by setting and reaching goals. Short term and long term goals are a good way to stay motivated for the long haul. Setting a short term goal and achieving it requires someone to stay on track and make day to day decisions that keep them on track to reach their goals. This includes small decisions and large decisions that come up on a particular day that a person has to make to stay aligned with their goals.
What motivates me to work the hardest and put my best foot forward is my desire to learn new things. I work the hardest on a project and like doing everything from scratch because I love how much I learn along the way. The success that comes along with that gives me a sense of independence and accomplishment. Every little win counts toward building my self esteem and confidence. MY work ethic makes me want to give my best and the success in return motivates me to take up new challenges that leads towards an overall positive growth.
My motivation is the people around me. If I know that I will be able to have fun and be able to talk to them freely, it helps me do the work and enjoy it also. I remember my first internship I had, I did not like working there because I couldn't interact with the people there. But after I had my second internship, I loved it because of the environment around me.
The main motivator for me is the opportunity to create something new. I also enjoy finding solutions to the various problems that occur during the course of a project. Seeing the end result of months of work is also a major motivating factor and gives me the desire to start new projects.
As previously stated in another post, During my capstone project this year, my project manager (the class’ professor) let my team know ahead of time that our customer (the professor we were working for) was disappointed in the past by their capstone group. He told us to make sure we apply significant effort into the project at hand because he didn’t want our customer to be disappointed a second time. This heads up motivated my team and I intensely, and as we come to the end of our project, our customer is extremely happy with our progress.
In addition, I also took the course with Dr. Mantilla that djr32 mentioned in the beginning of the post. That course was one of the most challenging and rewarding courses I've taken at NJIT. It took me a few weeks to realize that the more you prepare for the course, the more participation points you receive. This knowledge motivated me to constantly read the material before class so I was able to answer Dr. Mantilla's questions. Within this class Dr. Mantilla could be viewed as the PM. At the end of the course he wanted us to make two boats that we powered with electrically stimulated frog legs. Throughout the semester he provided us with the knowledge and productive criticism we needed to get to that point. We learned about different parts of the body, how to read EMG and EEG data, how to write a structured lab report, and how to dissect a frog and isolate the important muscles and nerves. He was constantly motivating us to use the engineering knowledge we required to make a functioning boat.
Typically what motivates me is that my work can directly effect a patient so taking that into mind it helps me be motivated. This thought helps me maintain a standard of work and also use a strong code of ethics especially on the quality side. I used to work with insulin pumps at a previous job and my manager actually brought in a young girl that was used the insulin pumps that my team and I were directly involved with. Seeing how her life has changed for the better really helped keep my head up in times when work seemed to overbearing or when I was not so sure if what I was doing was worth it. Seeing the direct impact of the work I do really helps keep me motivated in my work.
My motivation depends on what i'm working on. If it something that is not exciting or of interest to me then a deadline is probably the most motivating. If it is something I just need to get over with I might put it off unless it is due by a certain time. If there is something I want to work on I might use that as my reward for doing the work I don't really want to do. Another long term motivating factor is the future I want to have for myself and my family. I am also motivated by positive reinforcement, it is nice to feel useful and valuable during a project or assignment. I am also motivated when I feel like there is a good purpose to the work I am doing or that it will be useful or appreciated. When there is busy work or something is assigned just so a grade can be given for a course I get it done but don't put my best effort.
Many of the things that motivate others are similar to what motivates me. Taking up challenges and surviving those challenges to feel satisfied in my work motivates me to continue further. The satisfaction feel is one thing that one cannot simply earn by sitting and thinking of what to do. It requires thinking process but most importantly it requires hard work and putting the thoughts into action. Other things that support as a motivator for me is getting credit or appraisal for the work. That helps an individual to boost their self-esteem and confidence. Thereafter, one can feel satisfied after achieving that goal. Certainly, there isn't just one goal. Every goal begins after the completion of the previous one.
What motivates me is the desire to make products for those less fortunate and to know that I have made a positive difference in someone’s quality of life. An example is my current job in which I am part of a team that develops devices for combination products. It is rewarding to see comments in the internet about how the product helped improve people’s lives.
The things that motivate me are the urge to bring a new change, the want to move ahead in life, to make progress and bring in new changes that will make a lot of positive difference that would not just help me but the people living in the society in a wide variety of ways, rather than being stuck with the same old things. This in general involves taking up challenges, successfully completing those challenges and also having completed them before a deadline is what pushes me ahead/ motivates me for a majority of the times.
My motivation is the satisfaction that I experience after I have completed a certain task that is outside my comfort zone as when I handle such tasks I learn a lot of new things and that gives me a sense of satisfaction and I feel motivated to do more.
One motivation for working on designing a medical device project is to finally get a chance to apply all that you learned in the years of being an undergraduate and going through grad school. It is also known that a good amount of college students today are not capable of pursuing a degree in BME as they may have trouble keeping up with course content or workload. Since there are actually many students who lack interest in pursuing a career path in science, it motivates me, and perhaps others to do what not everyone else is cut out for. Competition also works as a motivator for me, as I have taken Dr. Collin's Biomaterials course, which some consider to be one of the most difficult courses in the institute. This course was most well known for always having at least one student drop out of the course before the mid-semester mark. Instead, the course motivated me to educate myself with everything presented (which was enforced by the extremely difficult exams), which in turn, improved my study ethic allowing me to succeed in my classes to come.
In terms of an academic setting, are class grades and overall GPA an adequate means of measuring one's academic motivation? In terms of an industrial setting, an individual's performance is reviewed annually through both a self-evaluation and a manager's evaluation that results in the employee being ranked with a numerical value. Can a low review score in this case serve to help or hinder one's motivation in company performance? Can a high review score take away incentive due to lethargy?
