Factors are defined as the needs or desires which users would like to have in each one of the mentioned areas of the life cycle wheel to be happy and satisfied.
-Necessary or hygienic factors: are the requirements or minimal issues that should be fulfilled in order to avoid stress. <BR />
-Motivational factors or function factors: optional requirements if are not necessary but make things better.
The first step consists of listing those factors which the user would like to have, in each area of the life cycle wheel. In the beginning, a distinction between necessary and motivating factors will not be required. In order to create this list, the Autocoaching database will be the reference. It will be mentioned later in the variety coaching. The following figure shows an example of factors used for personal development.
In this second step we must point out whether each factor is either necessary or encouraging. Necessary are the essential and indispensable requirements that should always be present in each part of our lives but at this point may not be. By encouraging we refer to those elements that despite not being essential, do contribute in the improvement of the situation.
Finally, the most important part of all is the factors current fulfillment indication. When the factor is not fulfilled, this causes the individual stress (which increases if they are necessity factors).
It’s ok because the objective is not complete precision, but rather the configuration of options that allow each person to discover what they desire and are interested in. The user may include his/her new factor.
If the factor generated does not perfectly respond to the preference it can be left as a free quality that allows the person to shape the factor. However it is important to generate options that help the user to find his/her factors.
According to the lowest evaluated areas in the life cycle wheel or the ones the user may be interested in, the stages in the development of factors will be the following:
-Detect the different factors required for each area of the life wheel,
-Indicate if the factors are either necessary or motivating,
-Arrange them by order of importance,
-Show the factors that are fulfilled at each moment, studying the rules in order to know which ones should be fixed in the first place.
Listing the factors allows a grade of consciousness about what is desired and not desired in life to be happy.
These factors are based on the hygienic and motivating factors defined by Frederick Herzberg (North American psychologist and consulter. Professor at the University of UTAH) in order to explain people’s behavior at work.
They are personal and should never be generalized by race, religion or sex, although general conduct patterns can be found
Once the types of factors are pointed out, it is useful to arrange them from less to more important, in order to detect the grade that we assign each one
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