If you’re just starting out in your career, or you’re in the middle of changing careers, then one of the most important things you can do is to understand your own motivation. Not just to accept the things that you’re told you should find motivating, whether they’re...
“Words can change the world.” – Terry Pratchett The words that we use matter. They shape our attitudes, shape our behavior, shape the very way that we think about the world. Words can inform, empower and inspire. But in an age of commerce, where the language of...
Demanding the impossible “Be a realist, demand the impossible.” – Protest graffiti, Paris, May 1968 It is all too easy to accept others’ definitions of achievement. To get caught up in other people’s aims and ambitions. To take others’ priorities as read. This...
Employee motivation – what’s holding us back? (Final post in the three post series) We know from the principles established by Herzberg, and from the work that has followed since, that it is important to differentiate between actions that will decrease demotivation...
Employee motivation – Remember my name (where’s the Herzberg)? Title is for the Breaking Bad fans out there… As previously discussed, as far back as 1968, Frederick Herzberg drew a distinction between factors which remove demotivation from employees – what he...
