The Barrett and Maslow’s Models in Leadership
The Barrett Model
The Barrett Model is the breakthrough work of Richard Barrett. Inspired by Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and tested over more than two decades of real-world experience with thousands of organizations, the model identifies the seven areas that comprise human motivations. These range from basic survival at one end, to service and concern for future generations at the other.
The Barrett Model
It provides a proven and extraordinarily useful map for understanding the values of your employees, leaders, and stakeholders. Even better, it offers a means for creating more supportive and productive relationships between them, and a deeper alignment of purpose across your organization.
Barrett Values Centre’s Seven Levels of Consciousness services help an organization’s leaders to grow and develop by learning to master seven specific levels of personal consciousness and seven specific levels of organizational consciousness. Barrett Values Center also creates Seven Levels of Consciousness reports for organizations that guide them in assessing and comparing the leaders’ personal values, the organization’s current values, and the organization’s desired cultural values.
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Maslow’s Hierarchy
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs is an idea in psychology proposed by American psychologist Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in the journal Psychological Review. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. Maslow's hierarchy suggests that people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on to other, more advanced needs. Maslow argued that the most important needs are at the bottom, meaning that the upper-level needs only come into play when the lower-level needs are fulfilled. In other words, a starving person is more concerned with finding food than meeting her personal growth potential. But as the fundamental needs are increasingly fulfilled, meeting her personal growth potential becomes increasingly important; people are first motivated to fulfill basic biological needs for food and shelter, then to progress through higher needs like safety, love, and esteem.
Maslow’s Heirarchy
From the bottom up, the needs Maslow advances in this theory are: physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.
If you are a manager or leader of people, Maslow's theory will help you understand your employees' needs and provide you with a framework to motivate them toward positive discretionary behaviour. It is often applied to the workplace as a means to determine how to more effectively motivate employees and to make sure their needs are met. Understanding this psychological concept can help you determine whether your needs are met in your workplace and how you can better meet the needs of your team. In the Hierarchy, Abraham Maslow has given a great tool to ground our management of people according to their innate human needs. Leaders and managers can use the hierarchy of needs in strategic and operational planning to create a positive work environment and increase employee motivation.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs can help leaders hone their styles to suit the needs of their followers. In most situations, business leaders do not have to worry about the most basic needs like hunger and thirst, unless employee wages are so low or their individual financial situation so precarious that those concerns are paramount in the minds of your workforce. But on the next level up, helping improve worker safety, for example, fulfills important needs. On the level above that, promoting cooperation fulfills social needs, as does letting an employee know she is integral to the company's mission. Then, when a leader has done all she can to meet the needs of the lower levels, she can commit to fostering personal development. Career guidance, for instance, helps employees meet their potential, as does empowering them by offering increased responsibility and authority.
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