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Practical activities from Mapping Motivation… Welcome back for the second instalment of a new series of articles in which we use practical exercises to explore motivation and more. If you missed the last article, which explores the Roots of Motivation, you can find it here. Today, we’ll be discussing leadership! In times of rapid changeContinue reading “Roots of Leadership”

Most psychometric, personality, survey or self-perception inventory tests have a fatal flaw that is almost impossible to erase, and that is the problem of honesty. An employee who is afraid of being made redundant is unlikely, for example, to answer a question that measures their abilities as a “team player” honestly if they think thatContinue reading “Understanding the Three Motivational Levels”

Welcome back to our motivational analysis of the Generation Gap. In the previous article (3 of 4) we covered Millennials. Today, we’re looking at the youngest generation, Generation Z. Generation Z: born after 1996 WHAT GEN Z CAN OFFER: Whereas Millennials grew up as the technology continually evolved and changed, Generation Z have always hadContinue reading “THE GENERATION GAP: Motivation & What Employees Want – part 4 – Generation Z”

Welcome back to our motivational analysis of the Generation Gap. In the previous article (2 of 4) we covered Generation X. Today, we’re looking at Millennials. Millennials: ‘80 – ‘95  WHAT MILLENNIALS CAN OFFER: Millennials are an unusual generation, perhaps one might even say unique, because they grew up at the intersection of an analogContinue reading “THE GENERATION GAP: Motivation & What Employees Want – Part 3 – Millennials”

Welcome back to our motivational analysis of the Generation Gap. In the previous article (1 of 4) we covered Baby Boomers. Today, we’re looking at Generation X. Generation X: ‘65 – ‘79 WHAT GEN X CAN OFFER: The first trait identified by the study as belonging to Gen X is independence. This is an almostContinue reading “THE GENERATION GAP: Motivation & What Employees Want – part 2 – Gen X”

One topic that I frequently see discussed by top-level management is how to bridge the “generation gap”. It’s a very valid question, because even if there weren’t studies and surveys telling us there has been a dramatic shift in what people want—and expect—from work, most of us have observed this change in action in theContinue reading “THE GENERATION GAP: Motivation & What Employees Want”

In the words of the rapper NF, “If actions speak louder than words, it’s pretty quiet, isn’t it?” There are a million and one theories about how best to improve your bottom line whilst simultaneously engaging and motivating your people, but the problem is just that: most of them are academic theories with no practicalContinue reading “THE IMPACT OF USING MAPS”

  One word that I confess I did not expect to see in discussions around psychometrics, personality profiling, motivation, employee engagement, and the general science of people in business, is hope. That may sound like a quite bleak statement, so let me clarify: hope as a word has many powerful associations—religious, philosophical, spiritual—in short, associationsContinue reading “Why Motivation Is Better Than Hope”

  Motivation is such a vast topic that it cannot belong to one author. Thankfully, awareness of the importance of motivation is growing, and there are many fabulous authors contributing to our understanding of what motivation is, why we need it, and how we can harness and improve our motivation levels.  In Motivated by MarkContinue reading “MOTIVATED by Mark Terrell (2021)”

In part 1 of this blog series, we discussed the importance of employee retention, and how the most common strategies for achieving this: one-off events or “lifestyle” improvements to the office environment, usually only last in the short-term. We also hinted at how the true secret to employee retention is ensuring high motivation levels inContinue reading “Nine Ways To Sustain Team Commitment Part 2”