Know the team like you know yourself

“It’s great that you got the biggest room!” Do you know what is most important for your colleagues? Is it time, sta- tus, or self-determination? A research team led by Adrian Furnham has shown that different employees value the same resources differently. Knowing what gets a specific employee most motivated and continually targeting this specific type of resource to this particular person is a smart way to use the team’s common resources. So give the largest room to the one it will please the most, and distribute other limited resources in the same way.