Speaking at the Dominion Theatre last week I talked about the most difficult thing to deal with in business. The most difficult thing is of course people. Indeed I added by way of a sidebar that people were also the most difficult thing to deal with in life (whilst also acknowledging that they are paradoxicallyContinue reading “How in Management People Become Things”
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Organisational Change Blocker #2: Busy-Busy Management
I looked last time at the first major change stopper within an organisation – dependency culture – and how this related to Motivational Maps and how Maps can help unravel this problem. The second major change blocker is similar: it’s the Busy-Busy Management style that is so prevalent within organisations, including the organisation of theContinue reading “Organisational Change Blocker #2: Busy-Busy Management”
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?”
Get On Top of Time for 2013
One of the most frustrating things in life – consciously or subconsciously – is the sense that we have talent and skills and abilities, but somehow the universe doesn't seem to recognise them. And we know it doesn't recognise them because we lack the rewards that we feel we are entitled to. Haven't we allContinue reading “Get On Top of Time for 2013”
The Right People Need No Motivation
Jim Collins, the world famous management guru, has said that “if you have the right people on your bus, you don’t need to worry about motivating them”. As a friend of mine said, “Does this mean that employee motivation programs are useless?” It would seem so – if only we could get our recruitment right,Continue reading “The Right People Need No Motivation”
Why motivation is NOT often in the work place
It is not an original observation to say that in most work places we look we find that most people are not highly motivated. In many cases they are not motivated at all. They need to work and their commitment to and engagement with their employer extends no further than the next pay cheque. ThisContinue reading “Why motivation is NOT often in the work place”
Performance, Motivation and What Else?
We have long held at Motivational Maps that performance is down to three core components: direction, skills (including knowledge), and motivation. So far as the operational work goes at middle and technical levels, then we are really concerned with two aspects: skills and motivation, and this since the direction – strategy, plans, goals, objectivesContinue reading “Performance, Motivation and What Else?”
Thinking about appraisal 2
What then is appraisal? A good starting point for this is to understand what psychological principles performance appraisal is based on. William James, the founding father of American psychology, discovered that there were three conditions that always led to enhanced performance. The first was that people always performed better when they had or were givenContinue reading “Thinking about appraisal 2”
The power of politeness
As we start the new year it might be an idea to re-visit simple things in order to be more effective. Things like … being polite! What do you think of when you think of a manager? Often people think of the manager as being their key support to enable them to get the jobContinue reading “The power of politeness”
What’s wrong with the world?
If we ask the big question, What’s wrong with the World? We may come up with answers like – Greed, Power, Corruption or, looking at it from the other end of the spectrum, Poverty, Ignorance, Crime. The World is a difficult place. Wherever we are we have a duty to try to make the WorldContinue reading “What’s wrong with the world?”
The Mapping Motivation Series 