How the Progress Principle Motivates Your Team | Dr. Teresa Amabile

Do Good To Lead Well with Craig Dowden

What makes you excited about your work? How can managers encourage creativity within their teams? In this episode, Dr. Teresa Amabile answers these questions and more.

What You’ll Learn:

1. What is inner work life and how does it affect your creativity and innovation?

2. How positive emotions lead to creativity.

3. What makes small wins so important to a healthy work life?

4. Setbacks have a negative effect 3 to 4 times stronger than the positive effects of progress.

5. How can you get a positive spiral moving?

6. The importance of meaning in our work.

7. How to include setbacks in your positive work environment.

Who is Teresa?

As Director of Research at Harvard Business School, Dr. Amabile has had the opportunity to interact with managers at all levels from a variety of industries. Most recently, Teresa collected over 12,000 diary entries from over 200 people working on 26 project teams. These diary entries gave Teresa insight into the inner work lives of the employees, allowing her to parse out what fosters creativity, progress, and ultimately a successful project. The results of this research can be found in her book: The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work.

Mentions:

The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile: https://www.amazon.ca/Progress-Principle-Ignite-Engagement-Creativity/dp/1491514353

Amy Edmondson: https://amycedmondson.com/

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande https://www.amazon.ca/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/dp/0312430000/ref=sr_1_1?hvadid=208307794507&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9001326&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=5539261850166569313&hvtargid=kwd-295612719286&hydadcr=2438_9638418&keywords=the+checklist+manifesto&qid=1698867545&sr=8-1

Follow Teresa:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresa-amabile-8542727/

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