to be optimally motivated

Leaders cannot motivate anyone, but what they can do is create a workplace where it’s more likely for people to be optimally motivated. They do that through leadership behaviors that satisfy people’s three psychological needs for autonomy, relatedness, and competence (ARC) and facilitate people’s quality of self-regulation through the MVPs of mindfulness, values, and purpose:

1. Encourage autonomy
2. Deepen relatedness
3. Develop competence
4. Promote mindfulness
5. Align values
6. Connect to purpose

Bonnie Marcus

"The Science of Motivation." Women Success Coaching blog. 7/20/2015