Leadership Motivation with the Reiss Motivation Profile®

Too many influencing factors create an environment that often leads to managers making decisions and pretending they know what the consequences will be. Managers often try to keep up this pretense, sometimes using enormous psychic energies. Thus, on the one hand, more and more feel visibly stressed and equally compelled to pretend that they are capable of assessing the consequences of their actions because of their ingenious strategic thinking. But we are also increasingly noticing that vacant management positions are no longer so easy to fill -perhaps the profit margin has become too tight: a lot of responsibility, many expectations placed on them, many problems from the company's past, difficult interfaces, employees in several locations or continents -and many opportunities to fail.

At the same time, the term New Work has been appearing in publications about leadership for several years now. Here we are told that the image of leadership, of the manager, is once again undergoing change. Today,managers are expected to be able to work with people in a useful way. Due to the dismantling of the old hierarchies and the need to constantly make adjustments -structural, cultural and strategic -the examination of who I am and what I can achieve by virtue of my strengths has become essential. In coaching it plays a special role to find out as a manager where I can start with my strengths. Reflecting on one's own personality, the resulting values, goals, drivers and individual behavioral possibilities, gives managers back room for maneuver. Room for maneuver in terms of possible actions, where at first there is perplexity, confusion or even powerlessness. Especially executives appreciate the work around the reflection of the expansion of their own fieldsof action -the Reiss Motivation Profile® is a door opener for this.