Drives are great for understanding why people do what they do, but they are also super for guiding group processes. Drives control behavior and have a great impact on the synergy and job satisfaction of people. Drives are not a goal in themselves, drives are a tool to get something done. By cleverly capitalizing on drives, you can change people's behavior and achieve a cultural shift.
Drives define who you are, how you see your environment and what you are looking for. By knowing your drives you learn more about yourself. What are your patterns and how can you break them, what do you really want, what gives you energy?
Lots of stress and often sick? It could just be because of the manager. Those who lead incorrectly create a negative atmosphere. Drives indicate how to motivate people.
Drives give a group a roadmap to start communicating better among themselves. Addressing each other at each other's value creates less noise and improves collaboration!
Drives define largely the match between person, task & team. A better match also gives higher retention rates!
With knowledge of drives, you can predict the direction of each individual or group. You can also reason out how to influence so that the route becomes different, more fun, nicer, smoother, more direct, more successful or more inclusive.
You can use drives to estimate what people as individuals or groups think of something or will do in a given situation. The predictive nature of matching and colliding drives - between a person and other people, task, assignment, purpose, setting or even a (new) product or text - provides leads for acceleration and improvement.
Think of applications such as assessing risks around compliance, putting together teams or during a merger where you want to "calculate" the degree of click beforehand, getting all the people involved in a change process, recruitment & selection. Drives logic has added value for processes where gut feeling can go wrong, because it makes them more data-driven.
Drives are rendered with six colors. Everyone is different and perceives the world through his or her own color glasses. Drives have enormous significance for people's behavior, energy and effectiveness.