I took a look at some of the most popular blog posts on the Performance Management Company blog...
employee motivation
Year End Message – Make it Work!
A friend dropped me a nice note about our team building and a proposal we have going and I joked...
Bad Dream and Reframing – Improving one's outlook on things
I had written this down on a scrap of paper: "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a...
Perfect Play — How can an organization understand what it needs to accomplish to maximize success?
Thirty years of working with organizations may have taught me a couple of things. One is that a...
Santa Creates Motivational Issues among The Reindeer! Seriously!!
It all started out this way: On Dasher, On Dancer, On Prancer, On...uh..uh... stumbled...
A really neat set of inspirational cartoons…
Here are a really neat set of inspirational cartoons that can be used to stimulate engagement and...
The Origin of Engagement in the breakdown of Appraisal and Control
Simply put: We need stop doing such a lousy job of motivating people in the workplace. Stats show...
Happy Thanksgiving (to those of us who celebrate this here in the US)
Yeah, Thursday here is a national holiday, what we celebrate as Thanksgiving for the collaboration...
Nobody Ever Washes a Rental Car – some practical ideas about implementation, ownership and involvement
I just posted up some ideas on my poems and quips blog, which tend to be my short little ditties...
Thanksgiving, Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine, and poems for followup
I've been building up a series of illustrations to use for following up on training and many of...
Getting More Done with More – Managing Performers, Slinks and Zombies
In my experience, 30+ years of working with organizations the workplace tends to operate with a...
Followup, Followup, Followup — The Only Way to make Improvements
Guilty of it myself, much more often than I would like. We do some training and expect things to...
Enthusiastic People Accomplish MORE
This is NOT rocket science, but the general reactions of so many make it seem like this should be...
Square Peg, Round Holes and Motivating and Engaging for Performance Improvement
This is a little ditty that Joan cooked up for an email to our customers and prospects and I...
The words of Bob Dylan, talking about working
I was listening to Bob Dylan's old album, "Bring It All Back Home" (1965) and a couple of lyrics...