For a long time, I have played with a couple of cartoons that reflect my thinking about training...
motivation in the workplace
A Comparison Chart of PMC’s Team Building Activities
We're supporting an ever increasing variety of impactful team building games these days and I am...
Marketing, Customer Service and People
One of my friends in India emailed me this morning, asking me for my thoughts about why companies...
Innovation – Myths versus Continuous Continuous Improvement
James Gardner, in his book, "Sidestep and Twist," talks about innovation and spending and the fact...
PRIDE – Issue or Opportunity?
One of the illustrations I have used over the years to focus on organizational paradoxes is this...
The Elephant in the Room – Line Managers are the Trainers (All others fail)
More and more, I am convinced that the KEY training people in organizations do not reside in the...
In The Beginning – Thoughts on strategies and motivation
I am just back from a great trip to India, part of which focused on themes of strategy...
Stress as a Motivator?
In the LinkedIn discussion that I mentioned in the previous post, the question arose as to whether...
Innovation, Strategy and Motivation
I am sitting on the bed in Mumbai, looking at emails and thinking about how well the strategy...
Motivation? It is feedback, not extrinsic motivators, the drive performance
I think the biggest opportunity to improve performance is through good, positive, immediate...
Biggest Mistakes in Motivating People
I think the biggest mistake we make is in thinking that you can add THINGS to motivate people....
Beware Best Practices, They Can Kill Productivity, Innovation and Growth – Adopt Facebook, Linked-in, Twitter
REALLY?? Best Practices can KILL productivity, innovation and growth? Someone wrote that as an...
Ideas, Innovation and Strategy Implementation – Getting Things Done More Better Faster
I have loved this quote since I first heard it 15 years ago at a conference: If we're not getting...
On Brainstorming and workplace productivity improvement
I recently responded to a LinkedIn post on the theme of Brainstorming. And I am reminded about how...
Motivating People, Motivating Teams
Extrinsic Reward Systems are Perpetuating Workplace Problems There! I said it as clearly as I can....