motivation
Want to Motivate your employees? First, Break this rule!
We’re 2 hours into running our guts out at our nightly basketball practice; fast breaks, full court press, and running endless sets of lines. Someone missed a layup and the coach yelled ‘STOP!’ As he berated the unlucky player we all ashamedly...
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5 Tips to make your Performance Planning more powerful and motivating this year.
It’s that time of year when leaders are getting ready for the new year, and the Performance Planning Cycle, and setting new goals. For some, it’s about as inspiring as mowing a lawn that’s been ravaged by crows looking for chafer beetles (you have...
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How the Pina Colada song can help manage Performance.
4 practical steps that will improve employee performance and maybe your love life too. Have you ever found yourself wondering why an employee is not performing a certain task consistently? Or you’ve been in a relationship where you found yourself pining...
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3 reasons why you should STOP using positive feedback. No, really.
It seems that over the past 20 years, positive feedback has fallen from grace. Whether we call it constructive feedback, or Kudos it can be seen as ‘touchy feely’ or even placating. Maybe we’ve received feedback ourselves that just didn’t land right or felt...
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We need to hold people to be more accountable…or do we?
When I work with senior leadership teams I’ll often hear; ‘We need to hold people more accountable around here…’ Behind these declarations are good intentions. We want people to deliver on their commitments and to do so without us having to...
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