Motivation and Performance 14 Weeks

Signature Assignment: respond to ten scenarios

1. Design an explanation for what motivates Alexis Dixon to struggle to be “normal like everyone else.”
2. Compose a paragraph to explain how both Rebecca and Cheryl Hines are “both risk-takers.” 
3. Create a list of reasons that LaSonya Moore did not allow the acceptance or rejection of her ethnic identity to influence her beliefs about learning and school.
4. Plan how you would explain to a high school class how Nicholas Formato (aka Nick Holes) is the personification of integrated task orientation. You will need to explain what that means as well.
5. Combine Principle #36 – “Past performance guides future motivation” with the story of Nick Lowery found in our textbook.
6. Formulate a theory of Jessi Colter’s possible egoistic or altruistic motives.
7. Invent a description of how Alec Torelli is the type of person described by the “broken and build” view of motivation.
8. Hypothesize how Darren Soto became a motivational leader.
9. Examine Robert Knowling, Jr.’s example of how core values, candid communication, and organizational alignment contributed to his work motivation.
10. Write a paragraph using Amanda Boxtel as an example of an evolution of someone’s behavior that occurred through belief change.