Motivation


EGO and Pride Squash Productivity

19

Jan 2018

EGO and Pride Squash Productivity

When we can’t tell the client we don’t quite get what they want, so we plough on half cocked – they might think we are dumb? When we can’t ask the team for help as they’ll think we are a weak link. When we can’t mention someones great work, in...

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Freedom Creates Risk

22

Jul 2015

Freedom Creates Risk

There is a sign in the Care home that my mother resided in that read ‘Everyone has the right of freedom and with freedom comes risk’. To attempt to give the residents a good life, many with dementia, it was understood that trying to protect them from every risk would...

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18

Dec 2012

Look How Far You’ve Come…

Measuring your progress against what is left to be done and what’s next can be uninspiring and downright demotivating. Notice how the horizon always moves away from you as you walk or sail towards it? It is far healthier, accurate and spirit lifting to measure progress against how far you...

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30

Oct 2012

Creating the Conditions for Optimism

When was the last time you told a story about the way things will be? Difficult to recall? When was the last time you pointed out the problems that exist or the bad things that have recently occurred? Not so difficult to ID that one right?! I don’t normally do...

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27

Sep 2012

Chasing Security…

You need to be pretty fit to chase security. Most of what is considered secure is transient and a moving target: A secure job (one where you won’t get sacked, moved, overlooked or transferred) Secure relationships (those where you know exactly where the other person is heading, thinking or that...

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21

Sep 2012

Ambition Is Fueled By Possibility

People who are forced to make it on their own have drive. People who receive a lot of support and direction have dependency right?  This is the view some politicians push when it comes to whether or not it is a good thing to support the individual (grants, benefits, programmes...

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25

Jul 2012

Adult Onset ADD: Adventure Deficit Disorder

Big news item today on the latest survey results of the nations ‘happiness index’. Some would say there is an element of the blinking obvious; people are happiest as teens, go downhill in midlife and then get happier again in retirement. Why the midlife can be less happy is not...

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02

May 2012

The need to motivate others is a sign!

  The moment you feel the need to motivate someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake or you’ve put the right person is in the wrong role. The’ right’ people don’t need to be motivated. Challenged, lead, taught, acknowledged – yes. But not motivated. The right people in the right job...

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19

Dec 2011

Wrapping Up 2011

Bring your year end to a definite conclusion and start 2012 with a clear direction. (Why wouldn’t you?) Myself and Mrs. Fox sit down every year about this time with a glass of sherry and a mince pie and run through the following ‘completion exercise’. In doing so we have...

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21

Nov 2011

Force Generates Resistance – Excellent News!

Everyone’s heard of resistance training right? You get on a machine in the gym, load it with with weights and will your muscles to move the stack. The resistance of the load is what make your muscles scream in objection, break down and ultimately repair and become stronger. Resistance to...

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