Motivation and Empowerment

ايه؟ هتعمل باللين، معاك

• 30 years from now a newspaper article is written about each of you.

• What would you like to be said about you?

• It should be the craziest ambition you can think of!

Exercise • Find 4 synonyms for the word

“Power”• In pairs >> groups of 4 >> groups of

8

What’s empowerment?

“It’s when an individual or group help another individual or group to get power.”

Whom can we empower?

• Our colleagues • Our fellow members in IFMSA/IADS or any

student organizations• People from our community • Disadvantaged groups• Our team!• Our patients

Why empower?

• I’m not the source of all great ideas• It Frees Me Up To Work on Bigger

Things• It Makes Me Attractive To Work/Work

For• It's More Fun

Why not empower?• Fear

• Empowered member’s error = costly error• Consistency

• More than one empowered member, may lead to lack of consistency

• Laziness• Too lazy to empower!• As empowerment needs good training, clear

guidelines and continuous monitoring

Definition of motivation

“Motivation addresses the degree to which you want to or are willing to complete the work necessary for you to reach your own goals”

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory

• Needs are categorized from lower to higher

• Individual satisfy lower needs before higher needs

• Satisfied needs will no longer motivate• Motivating a person depends on knowing

at what level that person is on the hierarchy.

Maslow’s Definition of a Self-actualized Person

• Mentally intact

• Satisfied in basic needs

• Creative

• Motivated by values

Exercise

Stand up please!

Motivated Vs Motivator

Or External motivation

Vs Internal motivation

What about a new experience?