Every product, service and system has its difficulties, ranging from the sublime difficulty to the easy and the awkward. Awkward is the one we dislike the most; easy we can deal with, and sublime can throw us a challenge, so that when we prevail we feel good about ourselves. But awkward? Hmm, that's justContinue reading “What is difficult about Motivational Maps?”
Tag Archives: Motivation
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”
Getting to grips with performance
The subject of performance is one of the most important of our lives and of our business. The reasons are not difficult to understand. At one level we are constantly judging how people perform, consciously or subconsciously. This may be easy to get when we consider a leader or manager at work: we think,Continue reading “Getting to grips with performance”
Leverage and people
In organisations dealing with the people is always about dealing with all that is not secure! With all that is ambivalent and difficult to quantify– leadership, culture, values, management, motivation and morale, attitude, training and development, performance and so on. And the thing about these elements is that they are highly ambiguous. What is itContinue reading “Leverage and people”
Motivating young people
On Friday I drove up with Dr Dave Richards of Bournemouth University's Business School to Warwick University's Science park for the launch of Smart Development Solutions' Youth Map. This is a product that has been developed literally through 'public' demand. Over the past three years whenever I have had educationalists – headteachers, teachers, consultants –Continue reading “Motivating young people”
The Green House Hotel
I was invited last week by Mark Liddle of Middletons Insolvency Practice: http://www.middletonpartners.co.uk/south_west_region and David Foster of Winning Business, http://www.winningbusiness.co.uk/, to give a talk at the Green House Hotel, largely to financial and professional services owners and managers, over lunch. It seemed germane to me to focus on resolutions, intentions and goals for the newContinue reading “The Green House Hotel”
What is going on?
Everyone of us wants to know what's going on. What's going on with the Government – what are they going to do? What's going on in our neighbourhood – what's my neighbour doing? What's going on with my family – who's my spouse talking to? I guess it's because we are curious, but more thanContinue reading “What is going on?”
Motivation and the Bruges Group
I was invited to give a talk on motivation and the European Union at the Bruge Group’s annual conference this year at the Great Hall in King’s College, London. It was for me an unexpectedly lively debate – and I met some great people and learnt a lot of new stuff. I say ‘new’, butContinue reading “Motivation and the Bruges Group”
Establishing your purpose
Everybody has a purpose – another word for this would be mission – but not everyone knows what it is. Some people seem to instinctively grasp their purpose early on, and others find that it is slowly revealed to them. There is a third category of course: those who resist their purpose and die unfulfilled,Continue reading “Establishing your purpose”
Creating Teams
One of the most important skills of a true leader is the ability to create strong and effective teams. The reason for this is simple and can be summed up in the well known acronym: TEAM – Together Each Achieves More. What this means is that there is a synergy that happens when a trueContinue reading “Creating Teams”
The Mapping Motivation Series 