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Ever notice how the same piece of feedback lands beautifully with one person on your team and completely bombs with another? Robyn Jackson is back, and this time we're digging into Will Drivers, her framework for the four things that motivate every human being: mastery, purpose, belonging, and autonomy.

Here's the twist. Each driver comes with its own core question running in the background of someone's mind: how, why, who, and what. Once you know someone's dominant driver, you stop guessing why they're not responding to your coaching and start speaking a language they can actually hear.

We get into:

• What Will Drivers are and where the theory came from
• Why the people you connect with most easily probably share your dominant driver
• How the same feedback needs to be delivered four completely different ways depending on who's receiving it
• Why some of the meanest, most aimless, or most struggling people on your team are driven by the exact thing they seem worst at
• The principal who couldn't get his staff moving because he was autonomy driven and they were mastery driven, and neither one understood the other
• Robyn's reframe for ditching the shoulds: be curious, not furious

This one will have you diagnosing your own driver, your partner's, and probably three people on your leadership team before the episode is even over.

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About Robyn Jackson: Robyn R. Jackson is the founder of Mindsteps and the creator of the Buildership framework. She's spent years helping leaders move from compliance-driven management to real ownership, and her Will Drivers work grew out of motivation research she originally applied to students before realizing it works just as well on adults.

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