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Communicating Culture with Positive Reinforcement
XPLANE's Culture Map, Courtesy of Dave Gray A lot of big words for a simple theory. Or as Boyd so eloquently puts it in the recent Fast Company article, “People want to be inspired, not lectured. They...
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Intangible Rewards Motivate Better than Hard Cash
Photo by William Deresiewicz, NY Times Intangible rewards are often the best kind of reward. That’s where we left off on the last blog. Positive reinforcement is a way to remind employees of the type...
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How Small Wins Improve Employee Motivation
Often teams focus solely on the end result, or task they are to achieve. Why? Because senior-management generally focuses on long-term strategy, scaling and budgeting, so they delegate these type of...
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6 Tips for Encouraging Employee Progress
Flickr Image User Will Vanlue In my last blog, I discussed the Progress Principle, which theorizes that the more frequently people experience a sense of progress, the more likely they are to be...
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Burnout: Myth or Reality?
I’ve blogged before about the possibility of work-life balance. Recently, Inc.com featured an article concerning Marissa Mayer, the much blogged about new Yahoo CEO who recently had a baby. Mayer...
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Gamification in Business: How Gamification Helps the Bottom Line
Most people think that games are just for kids. According to Jane McGonical’s TedTalk, embedded below, three billion hours a week are spent playing games. Gamification, the underlying mechanics that...
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Gamification in Business: Using Gamification To Engage Employees
This is the third post in my series exploring the concept of gamification in business. First, I covered how gamification is used in business to increase employee engagement and innovation. Next, we...
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Using Coaching to Motivate: Freddi Donner Interviews Anne Loehr
Freddi Donner is a seasoned executive coach who invited me discuss how coaching can impact motivation. She founded Business Stamina in 2004 after more than two decades as a corporate marketing...
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Five Business Culture Books To Add To Your Fall Reading List
Some people like to read. Some people like to read a lot. Then, there’s people like Doug Hensch who are not happy if they are aren’t consuming research-backed literature on well being, resilience,...
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Opening Pandora’s Box of Emotions Is Actually Good for Work
Let’s talk about managing disappointment. I don’t mean disappointment in a movie or new restaurant. I mean bone crushing, can’t get out of bed disappointment in achieving a big dream. When you try...
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