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Developing Survival Skills
Peter Quarry and Eve Ash sympathize with the pressures faced by teams and their leaders. Survival skills are called for – including being open with others about how you cope, the ability to look for the silver lining (seeing the positive in a negative), asking for help, being clear about what you ne... read more
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Emotions: A Powerful Tool at Work
We are all good at recognizing negative emotions. These tend to narrow people's focus. Kylie Bell explains to Eve Ash Barbara Frederickson's "Broaden and Build" theory which examined the top ten positive emotions and how they each brought benefits to the workplace. By (for example) enabling people t... read more
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How Leaders Can Develop Self-Motivated People
Most leaders want super-engaged workers who don't require constant supervision. For this to occur, Kylie Bell says, they need to ensure a good supply of three nutriments: relationships (knowing each builds trust), competency (giving feedback, goals and key performance indicators) and autonomy (allow... read more
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Identifying a Sense of Purpose
Improving team motivation begins with (re)igniting a sense of purpose. Peter Quarry suggests using the Five Whys with the office team: why this team exists, what the purpose of it is – drilling down on various “whys” until the team agrees on a purpose statement that best fits and sparks their reason... read more
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Improving Team Leadership
79% of people quit their jobs because they don’t feel appreciated. 58% of managers don’t receive any management training. No wonder teams aren’t motivated! Peter Quarry and Eve Ash canvas ways to improve team leadership through learning flexibility, demonstrating appreciation, providing constructive... read more
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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
Kylie Bell talks to Eve Ash about the extrinsic-intrinsic continuum, which ranges from "I have to do this" to "I enjoy doing this!" She nominates Ryan and Deci's study which made an interesting discovery: that people are not necessarily motivated by either extrinsic (external) or intrinsic (internal... read more
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Motivate People with Visual Results
Colin McLaren and Eve Ash discuss the benefits of seeing results. Teams love visuals, says Colin, who uses large white boards, graphs and images to communicate a problem and its progress. Leaders should have a project or muster room, keep confidentiality and acknowledge team members’ contributions o... read more
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Positive Emotions Help us Perform Better at Work
Kylie Bell explains Barbara Frederickson's "undoing hypothesis" which is about positive emotions' capacity to calm negative emotions. Positive emotions are physically beneficial, calming down stressed hearts. They are also, she says, emotionally contagious. Leaders and managers are vested with the a... read more
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Signs of Low Team Motivation
Identifying the signs and causes of a team’s lack of motivation is important; otherwise it becomes contagious. There are four things a leader can do, suggests Peter Quarry: identifying a sense of purpose, improving team leadership, developing survival skills and unblocking low motivation.Eve Ash and... read more
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Switch On Series
The SWITCH ON SERIES has been created by psychologist Eve Ash to help people identify and change negative thinking patterns. Each program is short with a unique tempo and style, great graphics and music… and no voices! The SWITCH ON SERIES uses a simple approach based on the notion of ‘scripts’ or ‘... read more
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Unblocking Low Motivation
How do leaders unblock unmotivated team members? Peter Quarry recommends one-on-one conversations to discover the reason, discussing solutions and being realistic about what can be achieved. It is important that leaders periodically scan their teams and promptly deal with issues.Low motivation can b... read more
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What is Self Determination Theory?
Kylie Bell discusses how Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is an insufficient assessment of what motivates people for organizational purposes. Edward Deci and Richard Ryan worked out that humans have three psychological needs that require being met at the same time: relationships, competency and autonomy.... read more
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