Richard Joerges, our colleague from the German Merlin blog spotted a really wonderful, informative and entertaining presentation. Created by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA in short) explains the actual drives of motivation and the common practices; control behavior though reward and punish and mainly through monetary bonus.

In case you already know Maslow‘s theory about the hierarchy of needs, it won’t surprise you that when motivating people in your function as project manager, you can do wonders when providing self-actualization, esteem and recognition, the feeling for belonging to a team, and satisfy safety needs of your project team members. Project stakeholders don’t need extra rewards, they just love working together if the know it all has a purpose and their contribution makes a difference.

For all the rest but also those who just got curious why this presentation deserved being meta blogged, you will find it here:

Enjoy the presentation video. It worths all 10:48 minutes of your time 🙂