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”
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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”
Chess and Motivation
Chess can be a very motivating game – at least, I find, when you win! But it’s very painful when you find yourself being ground down and inevitably in a position where you are going to lose. You know it – you can see it from far off – you try to stop it –Continue reading “Chess and Motivation”
My 3 Top Business Tips
I have been in business now for over 17 years and I think I have learnt something. The usual statistics are that somewhere between 60-80% of all businesses go out of businesses within the first five years; and over the next five years a similar number drop out. What then are the three top tipsContinue reading “My 3 Top Business Tips”
Outside In or Inside Out Poetry?
I read a poem recently that was written by a well known – famous even – English poet. The poem had been specially commissioned for a leading charitable organisation that was dealing with poverty and homelessness. To be fair, the poem was interesting – on its own terms. What he had done was artfully constructContinue reading “Outside In or Inside Out Poetry?”
Motivation, teams and Woolworths
Back in December 2008 I remember walking down from Glastonbury Tor into the main town with my wife. We had taken a short break in Glastonbury and were enjoying ourselves. As we came into the main town I spotted a Woolworths store on the right side of the road and crossed to have a look;Continue reading “Motivation, teams and Woolworths”
Motivation and the wild wild sea
Finally, I launch myself in – into the gentle waves and I am immersed in the freezing cold. My hands especially feel it – my core tries to resist. But what joy as the current takes me, and as I flip and flop and attempt this stroke and then that, and know I am back. Yes, back from the sunless rooms and corridors and into the light and into the sea. The wild, wild sea – turbulent as all my motivations, inspiring me to live, provoking me to embrace the wholeness, the wideness of every uncontrollable atom of existence.
