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The happiness advantage
Tying into the video from yesterday, this presentation by Shawn Achor, author of “The Happiness Advantage” reminds us that we are fulfilled and happy, not because we are successful, but we are...
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Are you spending more on office cleaning than staff motivation?
Are you spending more on office cleaning than staff motivation? A recent article makes that claim (to which I can't claim the accuracy of), however, the bigger point is you get what you pay for - so...
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Making Change Happen
Change is hard. In fact, it is damn hard. Yet we are being asked (or forced) to change more frequently than ever – in both our personal and business lives. The world is moving and changing faster...
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How We Are Developing a Reward and Recognition System using the 4-Drive Model
I’m consulting with a 12 Billion dollar sales division of a Fortune 500 company regarding the future of their reward and recognition system. Without going into much detail, they are trying to take a...
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Improving performance in uncertain times using non-cash incentives
Change creates an emotional response Even in the best of times, companies experience different competitive and environmental factors that can lead to organizational change and thus employee...
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Labels – why they “are” and “are not” important
The 9th Planet Growing up in the 1970′s I had a fascination with Pluto. It was cool. It was the farthest planet from the sun. It was the smallest planet. It’s orbit intersected with Neptune’s and...
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Ignite your motivation
This blog has been kind of quiet lately – partly on purpose and partly because life is busy. The on-purpose part of being quiet was brought on by a post I read by Derek Sivers blog...
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We need your thoughts and experiences on change
We are looking for input from people like you to answer some questions on how you were able to change something in your life. We want to understand how you were able to lose weight, get a promotion,...
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It’s all about people
“ The bottom line in all of it is that, in life, it’s all about people.” Colin Powell I saw Colin Powell speak way back in the 1990′s and I can still remember one part of his speech. He talked …...
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We need YOUR help in understanding how purposeful change happens
We’re getting serious now! We are looking for input from people like you to answer some questions on how you were able to change something in your life or achieve a goal. We want to understand how...
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Never Quit!
the following words were from a father to his son – written in a letter as the boy went off to university in 1908. “That is all the secret of success. Never quit! If you can’t win the scholarship, …...
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The first step to purposeful change
Change is hard…but it is possible. As noted in other posts here, we are researching how people change (find out more here). What we’ve found from our initial research that there are five key steps...
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Purposeful Change – 6 steps to help keep you motivated and achieve your goals
Based on new research from behavioral economics, neuroscience, motivation and habit formation…six steps that can help you get and stay motivated to achieve your goals. Igniting your motivation – how to...
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How our brain tricks us and fills in the gaps
The McGurk effect shows us how conflicting cues from our visual and auditory senses are interpreted by our brain – the result: our brain tricks us. We know that this is also the case in many optical...
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Behavioral Based Incentives: Do’s and Don’ts
Behavioral based incentives (incentives that recognize behaviors and actions instead of results) can be very powerful motivators inside of a company’s overall reward framework. In many instances,...
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Love this – we are not always as attentive as we think…
Let me know your thoughts…Filed under: Employee Motivation
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$100 bill bought for $150 – how we are not so smart.
Derek Sivers writes a wonderful post on a great behavioral economic study (a version of the “dollar auction). Too often we get caught up in “the game” and lose sight of the larger picture. It is the...
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How the internet took me to Malaysia
So on Friday night, around 7:00 PM, I will board a plane and fly for over 20 hours to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to conduct a workshop on Sales Incentive Management for a group of various executives from...
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Change is hard (4 ways I defeated my own change process)
For the past two years, in addition to my regular day job, I’ve been researching what it takes for people to make meaningful and purposeful change. It has been fascinating. I’ve talked with a number of...
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