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• Magic Formula with Seth
Seth Preus, explains how the Magic Formula can help you increase sales and motivation for your agency.
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• Seth Preus - Coffee Chat with Catalyit
Steve Anderson has a coffee chat with Founder of Mivation, Seth Preus
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• Ignite Spotlight with Mivation
View the video interview with Ignite Northwest and the Mivation team.
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• Exclusive Round Table Event
Watch the exclusive round-table event with insurance industry leaders.
Podcast & Video
Seth PreusThe Motivational Formula - Revisited
We explore the Motivational Formula again.
Blog
Seth PreusContribution - My team needs me
Next up on our round-the-mind tour of intrinsic motivators – Contribution. We are social creatures who thrive in an environment in which we can interact with others in a group.
Blog
Seth PreusAutonomy
Autonomy. In the simplest terms autonomy is the ability to do what you want, the way you want to do it. Various dictionaries define it using the term “self-governing”. Autonomy is a powerful intrinsic motivator because human beings want to make decisions for themselves.
Blog
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• Not so Fast. Why Work From Home is not necessarily a great new paradigm
It was inevitable. Enterprising managers would notice some of the benefits of a work from home (WFH) team and declare it the “New Paradigm” going forward.
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• Mivation helps Contact Centers
How Mivation Helps Call Centers Increase Engagement, Drive Consistent Results, and Improve Morale
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• How Mivation Helps Captive Insurance Agents
Perry Olson has been an agent for 16 years during which he grew one location from scratch to three locations, over 10,500 households, and over 25,000 policies. He currently employs 30+ team members. and is one of the most decorated agents at his carrier boasting just about every award that can be earned, many of them simultaneously for each of his locations.
Case Studies
Seth PreusHow to Invest Your Sales Coaching Efforts
It can be tempting to think that the key to better sales team performance is to invest in coaching your top performers (because they are awesome) and your lowest performers (because they can only get better).
Press
Henry DevriesGamification, like Minecraft and Angry Birds
Gamification in the office is just like playing Minecraft, Angry Birds, and Madden NFL.
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Seth PreusLost because you know the way
I recently wrote a blog about Autonomy that describes the importance of giving your team latitude in how they complete their jobs. By granting that latitude you make it possible for them to find faster, more efficient, and more effective ways of accomplishing their work.
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Seth PreusGaming makes work fun
Each year, insurance agency managers spend countless hours designing compensation plans that are intended to motivate their teams to do more. The problem is, the vast majority of these plans are focused on one method of motivation: money.
Article
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• Make every day Motivation Monday
Listen to the podcast with Seth Preus discussing motivation and its driving forces.
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• How to invest your sales coaching efforts
It can be tempting to think that the key to better sales team performance is to invest in coaching your top performers (because they are awesome) and your lowest performers (because they can only get better).
Blog
Cyril TuohyThe benefit of turning sales into a game
Leaderboard Legends is the latest to try by turning sales into a game. Its software tries to motivate agents, boost productivity and help insurers improve customer engagement and employee collaboration.
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• Proud to be part of Ignite
Read in the Spokane Journal of Business about Mivation becoming one of the top 25 compelling and emerging tech companies.
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• Racing Snail Expands Brand to Become Mivation
Racing Snail has changed its name to Mivation.
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Seth PreusMotivation
Motivation is a broad term that encompasses many different types of motivators (also referred to as “rewards”). These motivators can be loosely grouped into two categories, Extrinsic and Intrinsic.
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• Harness the motivating power of the Peloton and Apple Watch
Read how motivation is just like using a Peloton or Apple Watch.
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Seth PreusExtrinsic and Intrinsic Rewards
Motivation is a broad term that encompasses many different types of motivators (also referred to as “rewards”). These motivators can be loosely grouped into two categories, Extrinsic and Intrinsic.
Blog
Seth PreusMeaningfulness
How do we motivate our teams to do the best work they can by using an intrinsic motivator? I’m going to start with what seems the hardest, but really is just a matter of communication -- Meaningfulness (wow, what a fluffy word!). A person who believes that their work is meaningful is much more likely to have a passion for their job than a person who believes their job is a meaningless drudgery.
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• Utilizing Intrinsic Motivators
Remember, motivation is just a fancy word for wanting, so whether it’s an intrinsic or extrinsic reward, you can’t make somebody want something. However, there are ways that you can move the intrinsic motivations (feed the fire) that already exist within a person.
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Seth PreusAccountability
Accountability is a very large part of a person’s self-image. Nobody wants to say, “You can’t count on me.” Accountability is also strongly associated with trust. The more accountable a person, the more they can be trusted. Each time that a person lives up to an obligation, they prove that they can be trusted.
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• Motivate Your Agency's Team
Learn in this Podcast how to motivate your agency to get world class performance results.
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Seth PreusA Fish Story
Let me share a story illustrating how the same action can be driven by an entirely extrinsic or intrinsic reward. First, let’s all be adults here and recognize that every one of us probably did something “unwise” in our childhood. If you don’t believe me, check out the hilarious Twitter hashtag #wheniwas16 to find a plethora of examples of adolescent foolishness.
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• Test Post - A Fish Story
Let me share a story illustrating how the same action can be driven by an entirely extrinsic or intrinsic reward.
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Seth PreusMastery - I'm good at my job and getting better
The intrinsic motivator of Mastery relates to our desire to be awesome at something. It feels good to know that you are a “rock star” at a skill. But it’s not just about being good, it’s about continuously getting better.
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Seth PreusGamification
The key to gamification is in providing real-time visibility to current performance data to maximize these natural intrinsic motivators. In short, gamification isn’t about making work more fun, it’s about making it more motivating.
Blog
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• Chief Executive Game Changer
There’s a difference between making work fun and making a game out of work. Fun is “Bring Your Pet to the Office Day” and factory-wide ping pong tournaments. “Gamifying” work is integrating elements of play, competition, and digital technology directly into jobs to engage employees, communicate effectively and save time and money, or all the above.
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Seth PreusSee and Be Seen - The impact of "work visibility" on remote productivity
I’m a work-from-home veteran; I’ve been working from home for about a decade. Are people more or less productive when they work remotely? Like most things in life, it depends. It depends upon a lot of things.
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Seth PreusManaging and Metrics (with a Tiger Analogy)
If you are a manager and you are freaking out right now because you can’t see what your working-from-home team is doing, it may have nothing to with remote workers and everything to do with how you manage performance data. The current anxiety is the overdue result of two critical failures relating to performance data management:
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Seth PreusThe Movable Middle
Many leaders are challenged with improving business performance by increasing their collective team members’ productivity. Where is the best place to focus? Intuition typically points to either the bottom or top performers. It makes sense, your bottom performers have the most room for improvement and your “Stars” are usually where we focus when we need to achieve more.
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Seth PreusProgress: I'm on my way
We are always looking for ways to motivate our team. Learn about he effective strategies to boost productivity while reducing costs.
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• Mivation Partners with Hawksoft
Read about Mivation's strategic partnership with Hawksoft which is a leader in insurance agency management.
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Seth PreusThe Magic Formula
Review Mivation's Magic Formula. Though there’s nothing magical or mysterious about it all; it’s based upon the psychology of individual and team motivation. The formula consists of 4 “ingredients”: This will help you increase your insurance business productivity.
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Seth PreusThe Motivational Pathway
Discover how the Motivational Pathway uses data to drive action.
Blog
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• Contact Center, A Case Study
Discover how Mivation's case study reveals strategies to reduce costs and boost productivity effectively. Download the PDF for insights.
Case Studies
Seth PreusMastery - I'm good at my job and getting better
Mastery fuels our innate drive to improve and excel at what matters. True success isn’t about perfection or possessions—it’s about the ongoing pursuit of growth, challenge, and purpose.