Motivating Your Team Across Generations: Keeping Baby Boomers to Gen Z Engaged – Brian Cohn

We tend to think about motivation in terms of carrots and sticks – forms of external motivation. Motivating knowledge workers requires tapping into their internal motivators – striving for autonomy, mastery, and purpose. We’ll describe ways of engaging those often hard-to-identify motivators and talk about how the focus for intrinsic motivation changes across generations and experience levels.