IEP Fellow, Michael Högberg FIEP, is a psychotherapist specialising in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), a trained HR Business Partner, and has worked with people and change processes for most of his professional life.
During his career, Michael has been director of treatment homes, as well as director of private care and staffing companies in the social sector. In addition, he supervised staff and lectured on primary conflict management, leadership and conversation methodology at university level as well as with management groups within the private business world and leadership programmes with the Swedish Chamber of Commerce.
Within Manpower, Michael works with methodology and process management, as well as with special responsibility for onboarding and staff training.
Speaking about his IEP Fellowship, Michael said:
“I am passionate about motivation research, and strongly believe that the workload itself is not what we should primarily focus on – but on the degree of perceived meaningfulness. If the work doesn’t feel meaningful, even a small amount of work is too much. Meaningfulness is achieved by feeling that we have the right conditions to make a difference. For that, employees need autonomy, the right skills and, not least, a genuine sense of belonging (which you can learn more about via the theory Self Determination Theory – SDT).
“The IEP and its Fellowship are an excellent platform to increase precisely the affinity and knowledge sharing with competent colleagues from different but related fields. By learning and taking support from each other, we increase our conditions to develop and maintain motivation, create meaning and can thus be even more effective in meeting our various customers and target groups.”
