I have been in the training, coaching and consulting business now for 18 years; and a fine business it is. At its best, its practitioners add massive value, make a difference and help people and organisations solve complex problems. Furthermore, its hourly or daily rate is good. What is there not to like? You setContinue reading “Coaching, Consulting, Training for Residual Income”
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The Superiority of Energy over Personality
We have long held that in terms of work performance it is far better to consider what motivates a person than to ask what is his or her personality type. As my friend Steve Jones likes to say, ‘Nobody goes to work on a Monday morning because of their personality type; they go because ofContinue reading “The Superiority of Energy over Personality”
9 Top Tips to Tune Teams
Everyone who runs a business, or is in sport, or simply is involved with various types of charity or voluntary groups – hey, even who has a family! – wants to know how to tune a team and make the team more effective. So here are my nine top tips. I say tips but rulesContinue reading “9 Top Tips to Tune Teams”
The Works of Man and the Works of God
Often it is difficult, superficially, to distinguish between the works of man and the works of god. By god here I don’t necessarily mean – although I don’t exclude either – the God of religion or of a particular scripture; I mean the god whose presence we detect when we sense true inspiration and genuineContinue reading “The Works of Man and the Works of God”
Finding Diamonds Before You Go a-Marketing
Marketing, as Peter Drucker observed, was one of the two functions that alone made money for a business – all else was a cost. Thus it is PDI – Pretty Damned Important! It’s a shame, therefore, that it only does – usually – half the job. True, that half it may do spectacularly well, butContinue reading “Finding Diamonds Before You Go a-Marketing”
Motivation and the three Es
Motivation is an exciting topic; apart from leading to the three Ps of Performance, Productivity and Profit, motivation is what we need in life independently of whether we perform better. I like to say that my two cats have low IQs, small knowledge and a limited skills repertoire that always seem to remain the same.Continue reading “Motivation and the three Es”
Motivation and the 3 Ps
Motivation, as I like to say, is not a benefit, rather it is a feature of the work experience. What does this mean? It means that it is quite difficult to sell motivation either as a product or a concept to senior people who buy training and people development stuff. Yes, of course, everyone wantsContinue reading “Motivation and the 3 Ps”
The Beauty and the Banal
Today my wife and I visited the Southampton City Art Gallery and had a wonderful time; it’s a place, if you like art, I strongly recommend you visit: http://www.southampton.gov.uk/s-leisure/artsheritage/sotonartgallery/. The Burne-Jones Perseus collection is absolutely fabulous (and fabulous in the real sense of the word from fable) and reminds me of the essential characteristic ofContinue reading “The Beauty and the Banal”
Motivation and Social Media
Whatever our motivators are, they require we have rewards strategies to feed them. A motivator unfed produces a very unhappy person. In our Reward Strategy packs for the 9 motivators we have a small number of suggestions for feeding a motivator via Social Media. Recently one of our Practitioners asked me, How does that work then?Continue reading “Motivation and Social Media”
Getting Strokes, Giving Strokes
One of the most overlooked aspects of persuading, influencing and ultimately loving people – and to love them is to exert the greatest influence we can ever exert – is to meet their deepest psychological need. Which is what? Probably to respond to the great question everybody is asking, consciously or subconsciously, whenever they enterContinue reading “Getting Strokes, Giving Strokes”
The Mapping Motivation Series 