Increasingly, organisations are beginning to wise up to the idea that change management is one thing. Let’s improve the structure, the strategy or the system, or all these things in tandem. But unless the people can ‘perform’ all their labour is in vain. And frankly, people performing begins at the top. As the great QualityContinue reading “Engagement – What about Encouragement?”
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Becoming a Business Practitioner of Motivational Maps
At Motivational Maps we have two levels of Practitioners or licensees and sometimes I am asked what is the difference. Clearly, you get more for the more expensive license, but is it just that – you get more? Not really, there is a fundamental difference in thinking between the two levels and they are correlatedContinue reading “Becoming a Business Practitioner of Motivational Maps”
The Enneagram and Motivational Maps
I sometimes get asked what is the connection between the Enneagram and Motivational Maps? This is a great question since the Enneagram is one of the three foundation blocks on which I constructed Motivational Maps. Before answering, then, the question directly, let me detour to explain to those who have never heard of the EnneagramContinue reading “The Enneagram and Motivational Maps”
Introducing Motivational Maps to Staff
Motivational Maps is a very flexible product and its many practitioners have their own various ways of introducing it to their clients and the staff. But is there a best way or a preferable way? I think the answer is yes, although I freely concede that I myself have not been consistent in how IContinue reading “Introducing Motivational Maps to Staff”
3 Business Lessons I learnt from Cancer
Some of you may remember the story of Noah’s Ark. Noah was building an ark and while he did so people were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage. Then, one day, he entered the Ark, battened down the hatches and it started to rain. It rained for another 150 days andContinue reading “3 Business Lessons I learnt from Cancer”
Why Switch to Motivational Maps?
We often with Motivational Maps find that when we talk about them to potential clients and prospects they often comment that they ‘know about that’. ‘That’ meaning the Maps themselves; of course they often know nothing about the Maps but they do know about personality tests and psychometrical profiling tools and the assumption is thatContinue reading “Why Switch to Motivational Maps?”
Very Good or Perfect?
God, it says in Genesis, created the world, the cosmos, the universe, and the interesting question is: what is the first thing He (speaking anthropomorphically here of course) does after the creation? Well, quite naturally, he does what I did on the birth of my son: I wanted immediately to look at him and thenContinue reading “Very Good or Perfect?”
Quiet Gardens and our Life
I have long thought that it would be a good idea to teach young and old people through metaphors, then at least they might understand something and be in a position to act on that understanding. Instead of which we barrage people with facts and figures and often useless data masquerading as educational material. Also,Continue reading “Quiet Gardens and our Life”
Motivational Maps and Axioms
It was the great GK Chesterton who observed: "In so far as religion is gone, reason is going. For they are both of the same primary and authoritative kind. They are both methods of proof which cannot themselves be proved." What this powerfully reminds us of in the modern period is that it is notContinue reading “Motivational Maps and Axioms”
Improving Productivity
Productivity is a people issue. People make things happen, or not. This seems to be a revelation to some managers, as if merely pushing people around and simply paying them a wage leads to high productivity. The reality is that this approach leads to subtle sabotage and non-vocal resistance: lip-service to the organizations and itsContinue reading “Improving Productivity”
The Mapping Motivation Series 