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Personally I find being asked to engage in introspection like "reflect on a time when you were motivated at your job" pretty demotivating. I'm terrible at it, a
by pm215 7y ago
Personally I find being asked to engage in introspection like "reflect on a time when you were motivated at your job" pretty demotivating. I'm terrible at it, and it's a huge timesink with negative associations to things like interviews and having to write up annual performance review text.
- t34543 7y agoSounds circular. Maybe you need to be motivated to think about what drives you. Catch 22.
- wjossey 7y agoAll the more to my point. You’d have a pretty crisp answer if I asked you in a 1:1, what motivates you. No need for the introspection. But, you can’t expect your manager or anyone to know that about you unless you’re willing to share it. A good manager will understand this is demotivating and work within those boundaries. But, unfortunately managers aren’t clairvoyant, so we do need to hear it from you :)
- pm215 7y agoYeah, no, I wouldn't. I might at best have a vague idea of what might be motivating. Like I said, I don't do introspection -- I could tell you if I'm happy or not happy at work, but if the answer's not happy that doesn't mean I know why.
- szatkus 7y agoFor me, talking with my client over Slack or Skype about the task works. Suddenly some uninteresting thing defined only by a JIRA issue becomes something more. Some feature which provides real business value with context. That's one of the reasons why I work where I work, because PMs don't stand between us and the clients.