Leaders often assume they know what motivates their team, but guessing wrong means projecting your own preferences onto people. Find out what each person actually wants to achieve, then align your leadership to their real drivers instead of assumptions.
When we don't actually know what drives somebody, and I'm not— I'd be careful about the term motivate somebody. It's more about what do they really want to achieve in a measurable way. We will end up adjusting our leadership with them when we know that about somebody. Otherwise, what we're doing is we're leading them the way we— we're making assumptions about what drives them, and we lead them the way we want to be led.
