The Talent Development Hot Seat podcast - The Top podcast for L&D Professionals Understanding What Motivates People with Will Mahon
In this episode of The Talent Development Hot Seat, Andy welcomes Will Mahon to the show. He is a self-described training nerd, people developer, and a happy human. Will Mahon’s passion is in helping people unlock their personal and professional potential. He’s worked in L&D for more than 15 years and has a background in the retail and technology industries., working with companies like Clarks Footwear and Draft Kings. Will Mahon is currently the senior training manager at Index Exchange, an ad tech company that works with publishers and media companies to monetize the internet.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- How Will Mahon landed a career in learning and development and why this particular path was a great fit for him.
- His philosophy surrounding motivation and why it’s different than employee engagement.
- How to discover what motivates people in your organization and why employee engagement is so low.
- What leadership can do to discover what motivates their employees and the 7 types of motivation based on the framework developed by German philosopher Eduard Spranger.
- Will Mahon’s recommendations for discovering what motivates your employees and the systems you can put into place to make this process easier.
- The ROI your organization can get from having truly motivated employees.
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