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How to Motivate Just About Anybody

24 July, 2012 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Good Samaritan

Possibly the world’s worst job… Outbound telemarketing Trying to sell something to people over the phone Cold calling It doesn’t have a single thing going for it. Adam Grant studied a group of students who did it for a living. Their job was to raise money for a University.  To phone its affluent alumni and […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: call centre, motivation, purpose

Do You Have a Job, a Career or a Calling?

21 July, 2012 by James Lawther 1 Comment

Bin Man

Dr. Amy Wrzesniewski studies people and their jobs. She has created a method of categorising people’s attitude to their work, defining three simple ways by which people see their employment.  Is your work… A job, a means to an end, a pay-check?  People who think about work this way show up, do what they are […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: motivation, purpose

Forced Fun: Is it Working Yet?

31 December, 2011 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Forced Fun at Work

You must have fun! I worked for an organisation that believed in having fun at work.  If you were having fun you were happy and if you were happy you were engaged and if you were engaged you were productive (or so the logic went). To make sure we were all having fun we had […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: forced fun, motivation

Which Instrument Would You Like to Play?

13 December, 2011 by James Lawther 2 Comments

For most people, their most expensive purchase is a house, followed, somewhat distantly, by the cost of a car.  I should be so lucky.  I live in an inner city.  The local free schools hand out certificates in drive by shooting and drug dealing (not strictly true, but let’s not let the truth get in […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: motivation, self belief, video

Monday Morning

31 October, 2011 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Monday Morning Bues

It is nine-o-clock on Monday morning, you have just sat down at your desk. What goes through your mind? Do you sit and think of all the ways you could out-do yourself? Do you work through and plan out ideas to improve performance? Do you worry about how you are going to be cheaper, faster […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: empowerment, motivation, performance management

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