
117 – The Big Turn-Ons
Purpose/Objectives: Unlike communication, motivation is often difficult to
teach and demonstrate in a classroom situation. This
thought-provoking exercise helps managers understand
motivation by discovering factors that motivate people
toward high achievement and performance. Participants
are first asked to talk about organizations and/or
activities where people devote time and energy away
from work. Then, assigned to groups, they produce
ideas about what motivates people to give their time
and energy to those organizations and/or activities.
When the groups reconvene for large group discussion,
they are asked to ...