Mapping Motivation for Top Performing Teams

Chapter 2

Reward Strategies

In Chapter 1 we looked at the four properties of a team, and also whether a team Map might indicate, without having to look any further afield, whether a group of people really were a team or simply just that, a group. The answer is yes; Motivational Maps can quite clearly show whether a group of people is functioning as a team or not. Clearly, this is very valuable. For one thing, from a consultancy, training or coaching perspective, an external support agency can almost immediately get a handle on some of the issues that are besetting a particular group within an organisation. Furthermore, internally an organisation might well suspect or know that a particular group or ‘team’ or department is not functioning as ...