What do your people really want?

The same things you do:

• Agency – to make their own ‘me-shaped’ dent in the universe.
• Mastery – to learn and master (even teach) new skills.
• Autonomy – to be free to choose how they make their dent.
• Purpose – to do this for something bigger than themselves, with meaning beyond the sale.
• Community – to do all this with ‘people like us’.
• Status – to know (and for others to know) where we stand in our communities.

If you escaped corporate life to set up on your own, you’ve almost certainly found that having these things at work didn’t just make you happier, it made your work better too.

Pass it on.   It will be worth it.