The document discusses personal growth, emphasizing that while behavior can change, core beliefs and motivations are harder to alter. It highlights three primary motives—people, performance, and process—that influence individual behaviors and perceptions. Understanding these core motives and recognizing the motivations of others can improve interpersonal interactions and personal development.

1. Welcome
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2. Engaging for Change

3. Engaging for Change
Some elements of personal growth, especially
behaviour, can be changed quite readily but the
personal core of beliefs, purpose and motivation are
rarely open to change.

4. Engaging for Change

5. Your Core Motives
Are difficult to see – your
purpose, intentions and values.
They are who you are at the
core. Your motives anchor your
strengths. They are the reason
why you do what you do.

6. People
Performance
Process
Who
you are
Your core is the essential you. It’s the motives behind your behaviours. Everyone has a blend
of three primary motives...concerns for:

7. Your Core is a blend of three primary motives:
People, Performance, and Process.
We all share a desire to feel good about ourselves, but we
experience these desires and feelings in different ways.
Everyone has some Blue, Red and Green motives but these
motives are present in different frequencies in different
people.
Your Motivational Value System (Core) describes the motives
that drive behaviours and helps explain the way people
perceive things differently. It also gives insight into people’s
values and how they intend to use their strengths
productively.

8. Your Strengths
Are what people see – your actions
and behaviours. They shift based on
the environment. Like a buoy they
are connected to something deeper.

11. Engaging for Change
Know yourself and understand who you are and what makes you what you are.
Understand how your personal view can act as a filter to the way you see others.
Respect other people’s desire to be what they want to be even if it’s different from you.
Choose your behaviours appropriately and have responsibility for them.

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