It's important to keep track of motivation. For individual employees, reflecting on motivation can help them recognise their attitude to work. For teams, it can be an indication of how well individuals on the team gel, and for companies, it can show how resilient individuals are to company-wide events, such as an office move.

That's why, at the end of every Motivii Update, Motivii asks you to rate your motivation. 

This data is anonymised and aggregated with your teammates to provide a team score, and aggregated with the rest of the organisation to provide a company score. As an individual employee, you'll be the only person able to see your own motivation.

If you miss an update, the motivation score from your previous week will be carried forward.
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What is Relative and Normalised Motivation?

The normalised motivation graph shows motivation recordings in relation to your team's past recordings. You can see how team motivation levels change week-on-week and month-on-month. This can be a useful way of identifying causes for changing motivation among your team: such as new people joining, away days or seasonal holidays. 

Relative to desired:

The Relative to Desired Motivation graph shows your team's motivation in relation to their desired motivation. Their desired motivation is the motivation that they enter when they first joined Motivii, which represents their ideal motivation that they would like at work. 

Users can calibrate their desired motivation at any time by going to Profile & Account from Settings.

How to interpret motivation

Motivation can change quite a lot, and if you have a smaller team you will see differences week-on-week, depending on how they are feeling.

One bad week for motivation may not be something to worry about. However, a persistent downward trend could highlight more serious issues.
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Dipping motivation can be a great conversation starter in weekly team meetings, where you can ask your team if there are any reasons why they are feeling demotivated. Likewise it can be useful to discuss this data in 1:1s. Sometimes low motivation levels as a team can be useful as a cross-reference with sentiment analysis and the Motivii Update entries. 

Similarly, if normalised motivation alongside motivation relative to desire, then it should be celebrated as a team to drive momentum.

We give you the percentages for the highest and lowest weeks, to give you a broad overview of your progress and and to give an indication of the scale of changes.