Negative Motivation: It’s Easy to Demotivate Someone
I see this happening in organizations where I consult: instead of encouraging, management inadvertently uses negative motivation. Unfortunately, it’s really easy to demotivate performance. In
I see this happening in organizations where I consult: instead of encouraging, management inadvertently uses negative motivation. Unfortunately, it’s really easy to demotivate performance. In
I’ve been reviewing the latest employee engagement survey results publish by Gallup that show only slight improvements over the last decade. With so many organizations
The annual statistics on employee engagement have been released by the Gallup Organization, with only slight improvements in what is considered to be an important
Every year it seems we read the same dismal results on employee engagement surveys: only about a third of our work force show up with
Why aren’t employee engagement levels across the world increasing? Only 32% of U.S. workers were engaged in their jobs in 2015, compared to 31.5% the
With so many organizations focusing on Employee Engagement, why aren’t engagement levels across the world increasing? According to Gallup’s January 2016 article, The Worldwide Employee
Some experts claim that in the future, work in organizations will be done by self managing teams. In my previous post, I mentioned that some
In reading Dr. Hallowell’s book Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People (Harvard Business Press, 2011), his third and fourth items
Whether you’re giving difficult feedback to an employee, approaching your supervisor with a problem, or having an uncomfortable conversation with a peer — handling difficult
Imagine a workplace where people are scared to voice their opinions, where the fear of failure is so intense it paralyzes action. Such a work
The term “glass ceiling” evokes an image of an invisible, yet unbreakable, barrier that prevents women from advancing to higher levels of leadership, especially in
The world of quantum physics with its electrons, quarks, and uncertainty principles may seem far removed from the art of leadership. However, the quantum world