Work Life Well-Lived: The Motives Met Pathway to Well-Being at Work

by Kelly Mackin

This book will disrupt how you think about creating your best work life and workplace and give you a no-B.S. road map to get you there.

What you’ve been taught about how to find health and happiness at work is inaccurate. Yep, it’s wrong. If you are fed up with the overwhelming and conflicting noise around creating a fulfilling professional life or being a leader people want to work for, this book will help you cut through the clutter once and for all.

Through years of research and truth-finding, Kelly Mackin and her company, Motives Met, have discovered a completely new mindset and approach around what well-being at work is all about, how to get there, and why it’s so important that we do get there.

This book is a transformative personal guide; but it’s also a call to action for a fundamental shift in our approach to work—a manifesto for a human-centered work world. The heart of humanizing work is honoring that we are human beings at work with human needs, and these needs—what Mackin refers to as motives—should be healthy and, ideally, thriving. Ill-being still drastically overshadows well-being at work, but using Mackin’s proven framework and 5-step pathway we can change that.

You will become empowered to

• elevate happiness, mental health, and well-being for yourself, the people you work with, and those you lead;

• learn to be mindful of, evaluate, and communicate motives, to ultimately meet them;

• create a people-first culture where employees thrive and business thrives;

• overcome well-being obstacles by eliminating the “dream killers” that threaten a human way of working;

• ditch surface-level connection and friction for more meaningful work relationships with psychological safety and trust.

And so much more!

*EXCLUSIVE HUMAN NEEDS ASSESSMENT CODE*

Are your motives met?

With your book purchase, you will receive your code to take the Motives Met Human Needs Assessment to uncover your top 5 motives, the psychological, emotional, and social human needs driving your ability to thrive at work today. The assessment reveals the unique truth of well-being for yourself, your team, and organization.

This book is a breath of fresh air that isn’t about chasing perfection or some unrealistic ideal; it’s about embracing what is genuinely possible. It’s about the attainable dream of a work life well-lived for all.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Health

330 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 2, 2024

Reviews

[Tam Wallace · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an interesting book guiding people to find their "why" in the workplace. It also offers a link to take a test to determine your motivations in work. The author then discusses how each individual can share their motives and learn how to work with the motives, often the reversed of yours, for others in the workplace.

[Nicole Never Reads Too Much · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received a copy of this book from a giveaway:

As an HR leader, I found this book to be a breath of fresh air with its thoughtful approach to improving the workplace for individuals, teams, and companies. It's not just a book to read; it's a book to put into action! Kelly Mackin provides a clear guide to creating an actionable plan for yourself or your team, leading to real, tangible outcomes. I honestly think this is a book I can recommend to anyone at any level in an organization.

The use of real-world examples makes the content relatable and far from boring or overly academic. Kelly's personal story of moving from "ill-being to well-being" resonated with me and drew me in from the start. I hope that I can apply these techniques to become the best employee and leader! I have not done my assessment yet, but can;t wait to see the impact it has on me!

Overall, this book is a valuable resource for anyone looking to make meaningful improvements in their work life.

[Jenna Langel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I nearly finished this book but honestly I don’t think I’ll come back to it.

It’s funny because early on in my read, I was recommending the book to a few people I know were struggling. As I reflect, I’m not sure this book would even be helpful for them.

I did take the quiz one time and didn’t like my results and then took it again to get three things the same and two things that were different. (I agreed with my results the second time more.) It’s interesting because I was hyper focused on a particular topic during the first time I took the test, and I think that showed in the first assessment. I wonder about the validity of the test if things could change so drastically, however I will say a lot of it did make sense.

I think the ideas in and behind this book are excellent. Mackin was a keynote speaker for a virtual learning conference I did. I was mesmerized— the idea of work life motives. Brilliant. Hence, I suggested this book to our work book club. Most of us who gathered for discussion didn’t much care for it.

Mackin said so many great things separately but strung together in a book, these things just didn’t feel like they gelled together or made sense.

I really wanted to like this book and use it, but I just don’t think it’s happening.

[Marianne · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book helped me discover, through a personalized test, the MOST important factors I need to live my BEST life at work.

It starts by addressing a profound question: why do so many people, despite achieving traditional definitions of success, remain unfulfilled at work?

Kelly’s research reveals that only 16% of people truly thrive at work.
That’s incredibly low 😥 !!

This alarming statistic highlights a deeper issue in how we define and pursue well-being in the workplace.

In her book, Kelly identifies 28 core human needs, grouped into ten domains, that determine whether individuals feel fulfilled at work. What makes her approach unique is the focus on individual needs—what drives one person may not resonate with another.

Inside the book, you’ll find a code to take a test that reveals your top 5 motives—what you personally need to live your best work life.

Reading it could help you better understand what truly matters to you—and guide you toward a role and company where those needs are met.

[Christine Souza · Rating 2 out of 5]

This took me forever to get through. It might have been because the author name-drops her company so much I would roll my eyes and lose my place. I am always grateful for a new book and I received a digital copy of this one. I felt this was just promotional material for her company. As someone who has had their work-life balance flipped upside down over the past few months due to a very large project on a tight timeline, I don't think identifying my motivation would have helped to rebalance things. I understand that emotional intelligence and human connection is important but sometimes you need to power through and get stuff done for a sprint and then you can go back and review how to improve for the next round. Do I think there are things that can be learned in this book? Absolutely. Can I work on sharing these ideas and concepts with my team? Yes. Will it change our Work-life balance? Not so sure.

[Paige Medynskyj · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this was insightful. I got this from a Goodreads giveaway-I am glad I was able to take the assessment, otherwise It would not have been beneficial. I will take back some of the things I learned to my group.

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May 13, 2024.