Motivation
The Masks We Wear
This is a new talk that I have developed which I presented at recent year-end corporate function: Everyone wears masks every day. We wear them in different situations and with different people. Masks serve a purpose: satisfying human needs and wants. Masks can help us get much, but masks are always removed for the true…
Read MoreHow Employees Respond to Job Dissatisfaction
ob dissatisfaction affects all employees in different degrees at different times. Like stress, how we choose to respond is more important than trying to deny or painfully suffer the consequences.
Many years ago, I learned about the EVLN Model in an organisational textbook. The simplicity of the model has always stuck with me, and often when in a teaching or facilitation moment, I share the model as an awareness tool for where dissatisfied staff may find themselves.
Employees respond to job dissatisfaction in one of the four ways:
Read MoreSimplify
I’m 35 years old. I’ve had my own business for the since 2003. I experienced growth in my business year on year for the first 4 years. With growth came the need to want more, compete bigger, employ more staff, offer more products and services, get sophisticated and take on more commitments. Then came the…
Read MoreCultural Pitfalls That You Need to Know
Waving is a serious insult in Greece and in Nigeria, particularly if the hand is near someone’s face. Making a “good-bye wave” in Europe can mean “No,” but it means “Come here” in Peru. In China, last names are written first. A man named Carlos Lopez-Garcia should be addressed as Mr. Lopez in Latin America,…
Read MoreWhen shift happens…
“In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time – literally – substantial and…
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