One of the reasons why I especially wanted to write Mapping Motivation for Top Performing Teams for Routledge was because of the productivity problem that afflicts the UK in particular, but the Western world in general. Indeed, productivity is a concern for everybody everywhere; ultimately, if we are not productive we wither, and then we die.Continue reading “MOTIVATION FOR TOP PERFORMING TEAMS”
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MOTIVATION & TEAMS: MEASURING YOUR TEAM
In my last article, we explored the four characteristics of real teams and how teams can achieve exponentially more than just a group of individuals. In this article, I want to give you a helpful way to measure just how strong your team is, as well as identify any potential weaknesses.
MAPPING MOTIVATION FOR ENGAGEMENT: THE IMPORTANT INVISIBLES
Engagement is an important topic, and becoming increasingly more important as a greater portion of the world becomes part of the province of big business. Mapping Motivation for Engagement promotes a new model for engaging and motivating employees which takes a bottom-up, people-centric approach.
MAPPING MOTIVATION FOR ENGAGEMENT: THE PEOPLE-CENTRIC APPROACH!
Time is flying by us as we draw ever closer to the Mapping Motivation for Engagement book launch, with authors Steve Jones and James Sale! This book, and the launch itself, marks a key evolution of thought on employee engagement.
MAPPING MOTIVATION FOR ENGAGEMENT: MEET OUR SPONSORS!
On the 24th October, we announced the Mapping Motivation for Engagement book launch at The Judge’s Court, Brown’s Covent Garden, in London, on the 29th November. We also introduced our two authors Steve Jones and James Sale. This launch promises to be a galvanising event: full of ideas, energy and expertise, opening up the wider discussions of how we solve the problems of engagement, employee moral, and motivation in our modern world.
Mapping Motivation for Engagement: Book Launch!
Mapping Motivation for Engagement is a stimulating and thought-provoking read for a wide audience including, but not limited to, trainers and coaches working in management and motivation, experts in human resources, internal learning and development and organisational development as well as change and engagement consultants and specialists.
EXTRACT FROM “MAPPING MOTIVATION FOR COACHING” PART 3
We are happy when we are in harmony; according to the Tao Te Chingi, in harmony with the Tao. The Tao is the Way – essentially, the natural flow of the universe and how it operates. It is an impersonal force according to the Tao Te Ching, but there is no problem in calling this ‘God’ if one wishes to. The point is that the universe conforms and complies with certain rules and principles and when we violate these we suffer.
EXTRACT FROM “MAPPING MOTIVATION FOR COACHING” – PART 2
Coaching starts with considering the issue of self-awareness for the simple reason that the person who is not self-aware has – by definition – no awareness, or consciousness, that there is anything on which to work within one self. This applies as much to self-development as it does to coaching a client. If a cat scratches its fur going through a barbed wire fence, we know it has become ‘aware’ of the injury because it will start to lick the wound relentlessly in its efforts to heal the scratch.
COACHING QUESTIONS: EXTRACT FROM MAPPING MOTIVATION FOR COACHING
Underpinning coaching, and great coaching especially, is the issue of asking useful, relevant and sometimes intuitive questions. In later chapters we consider in more detail other core skills that make up the tool-kit, as it were, of the effective coach. But keep in mind that it is not the function of the coach to provide answers for the client; mentorsi may do that; however, coaches enable the client to find the answers for themselves.
Wolfe and Other Poems by Donald Mace Williams
Wolfe and Other Poems is an extraordinarily good collection of poems, clearly written by a veteran writer. The underlying credo of the collection is very aptly summed up in the opening poem called, appropriately, 'Credo': Step out under the stars on a dark night Or open Rilke, Frost, or Dickinson. Like that, all poems (mineContinue reading “Wolfe and Other Poems by Donald Mace Williams”
The Mapping Motivation Series 