Praise–A Powerful Tool for Enhancing Performance
Everyone wants to feel important. That is the highest need we all have. Making people feel important is an essential…
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Tag: Workplace Motivation
The Chicken or the Egg?
Even before I checked my calendar on Monday morning, I knew the appointment would be there.
Break the Golden Rule: How to Retain Your Best People
It seems so simple, doesn't it? "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." The Golden Rule…
Bad Career Habits: Why Great People Have Not-So-Great Careers
Working in the career industry, I see literally hundreds of resumes and hundreds of people on a regular basis, and…
Walk the Elephant: Motivating with Humor
In "The Light Touch," Malcolm L. Kushner tells the story of Adelle Roberts, a police officer called to the scene…
Benefit from the Hawthorne effect
This is a phenomenon first noted way back in 1924 - several years before the era's leading "can-do" guru, Herbert…
Informal Rewards
Believe it or not --- while money is important to employees, it is not the top motivator. What tends to…
The Four Qualities of Work Team Coaching
Work team coaching differs from other forms of coaching, and it's more challenging in many ways. Business executives, athletes, and…
