For some people, whatever their personality traits or their motivational profile, there is a bigger agenda that must be followed. Perhaps a good word for this would be obsession – an obsession that destroys reason, logic and all internal coherence.
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Teams Multiplying Motivation
At last – after five fascinating chapters (in my book, ‘Mapping Motivation’, from Routledge (http://amzn.to/2eqdSQq ) on motivation and then performance, we go in chapter six into the one of the crux issues – conundrums even – for all businesses and organisations: the issue of teams. Indeed, managing and leveraging the power of teams isContinue reading “Teams Multiplying Motivation”
Emotions, Risk, Change, Feel, Think and Know: geddit?
In my third blog based on, Mapping Motivation, from Routledge (http://amzn.to/2eqdSQq) I'd like to look at one fascinating aspect of Chapter 3. The nine-point summary at the end of the chapter says: "Speed of decision-making, attitude to risk, and desire for change are also aligned with the nine motivators – as are our orientation toContinue reading “Emotions, Risk, Change, Feel, Think and Know: geddit?”
9 Reasons to Attend the Leadership Showcase #3
For those of you who know your Motivational Maps you will know that if your number one motivator were Expert, then the primary reason for attending the Showcase: Astounding Leadership Insights on the 8th September at the Dominion Theatre (http://www.astoundingleadershipinsights.com/) would be the topic of the learning itself: namely, leadership. Of course, Expert is notContinue reading “9 Reasons to Attend the Leadership Showcase #3”
9 Fabulous Tips to Produce Great Teams
The person who has experienced real teamwork and been part of a team is always aware that something bigger than one self is being achieved, which is why it feels so great. Indeed, being part of a real team can be considered one of life’s greatest experiences: just under falling in love, great friendship (ofContinue reading “9 Fabulous Tips to Produce Great Teams”
Motivational Maps versus Staff Surveys
Your organisation’s ability to function effectively in today’s competitive market depends on a number of crucial factors. The most crucial of all is undoubtedly leadership and without it the organisation is doomed; and this leadership is not just one person – the ‘head honcho’ – for the truly effective leader always create leadership all theContinue reading “Motivational Maps versus Staff Surveys”
Motivational Maps and Selling
Our product, Motivational Maps, has many applications and some of them are pretty obvious: motivation, performance, productivity, team building, appraisal, and recruitment to mention the most obvious. But selling? How is Motivational Maps relevant to selling and increasing sales? The good news is that Motivational Maps is highly relevant to sales and there are threeContinue reading “Motivational Maps and Selling”
9 Top Tips to Tune Teams
Everyone who runs a business, or is in sport, or simply is involved with various types of charity or voluntary groups – hey, even who has a family! – wants to know how to tune a team and make the team more effective. So here are my nine top tips. I say tips but rulesContinue reading “9 Top Tips to Tune Teams”
Why Leaders Need Personal Development
What is leadership? As Dr Johnson observed about light, it’s easy to see what light is, but not so easy to say what it is; so with leadership – we can easily see its positive presence – and the dire consequence of its absence – but to say what it is proves more tricky.
Do We Really Believe in Teams?
One of the mantras of most managers is that teams outperform collective individual performance. There is lots of research that substantiates that, and in any case it is summed up in that well-known poster acronym: T.EA.M., or Together Each Achieves More. Put another way: teams produce a synergy in which the net output is notContinue reading “Do We Really Believe in Teams?”
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