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You'd like to think you are going to be just as motivated and enthusiastic on Day 1,672 of work as you were when you first began. But sometimes we can all use a bit of help to keep going. In the face of the inevitable obstacles you are going to encounter, here are ideas that have worked for me, my friends who run both entrepreneurial and micro businesses, and others I talked to. 1. Necessity. This one is incredibly underrated which is why I put it first. You have bills that have to be paid and employees who are counting on you. If those two things won't keep you going, I don't know what will.
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The same strategies used to create a business plan can tell you if you're on the right track in your career and personal life.
Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished." Dan Gilbert shares recent research on a phenomenon he calls the "end of history illusion," where we somehow imagine that the person we are right now is the person we'll be for the rest of time. Hint: that's not the case.
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Five simple exercises can help you recognize, and start to shift, the mind-sets that limit your potential as a leader. A McKinsey Quarterly article.
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Sure, everyone knows blunt, impolite, and even rude people who are somehow extremely successful. But since we're all more likely to do business and build professional and personal relationships with people we like, we're naturally drawn to people who are polite, modest, agreeable, kind. In short, people who are charming.
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Take a look at this experiment, participants are asked to write a letter to whom they want to thank for. Then the participants are made to call them and this is what happen.
Via Barb Jemmott
Eighteen minutes or less. That's the length of a riveting bedtime story; John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech; and the ultimate TED talk.
At 18 minutes, your pitch or presentation can deliver the impact, critical message, and enough information to influence your audience and leave a lasting impression. According to best-selling author and communication coach Carmine Gallo, creativity thrives under constraints, and a shorter presentation will elicit the strongest reaction from your audience. Just as we've learned to create intrigue with just enough information to capture our audience in 140 characters or less on Twitter, confining your information to the constraints of an 18-minute presentation will promote creativity and deliver loads of impact.
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ome good examples of how companies are engagingResearch shows four out of 10 workers are disengaged globally. In the U.S., the situation is worse. According to the latest State of the American Workplace Report, 70 percent of U.S. workers don’t like their job, creating an environment where many workers are emotionally disconnected from their workplace and less [...]
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Feel like getting inspired, motivated or just looking for a feel-good cry? Look no further.
When an organization's story begins to change, people can feel confused or frustrated. Peggy Holman explains 5 roles that help transition to the new story.
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The reality is that we—all of us, not just the financial elite—are the collective sleepwalkers. How do we wake up? Why is it that, across so many major systems, we collectively create results that nobody wants? Nobody wants to increase environmental destruction, poverty, cultural ADHD, or suicide. Yet we keep doing it. Why do we collectively recreate these patterns?
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GROW - a framework to coach performance, by asking insightful questions and actively listening to help individuals choose the best options available.
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Willpower is not something you either have or you don't.
Sure, some people may be more self-disciplined than you. Some people may be better at resisting temptation than you. But that's probably not because they were born with some certain special something inside them--instead, they've found ways to store up their willpower and use it when it really matters.
They have remarkable willpower not because they have more of it, but because they've learned how to best use what they have.
Here's how you can, too.
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Can you be successful and not be happy? Can you be wealthy, fit, drive the best car, have a great marriage and family, and still not be happy and feel you have not fulfilled your passion? In the daily grind of life, we often lose touch with who we are and what gives us ‘life’. Our life becomes mundane, boring and the ‘same old same old’. What our heart longs for is passion to make us feel alive, have purpose and feel invigorated. But what is passion?
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Employees, spouses, kids — what does it take to get people motivated so you don’t have to nag them? Motivation is powerful. It predicts success better than intelligence, ability, or salary.
So what does research and expert insight have to say about how to motivate people? Here are 4 tips that can get employees, spouses and kids to try harder.
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Developed in the 1960s by mother daughter pair, Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myer, the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is based on theories by prominent psychologist, Dr Carl Gustav Jung. Each year, more than 1.5 million MBTI personality tests are conducted across different individuals to help them explore various goals. It’s usually employed by companies such as Ernst & Young to assess the job-fit of a potential candidate, improve their communications with their colleagues and to enhance team unity in an organization. This is achieved by increasing one’s self-awareness of his or her strengths and weaknesses through personality type identification.
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od Glassdoor recently announced their sixth annual Employees' Choice Awards, which uses employee ratings to determine the top 50 places to work. Here's...
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One of the key skills to being an effective coach is learning how to ask the right questions.
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Sure, running a business is about maximizing the bottom line, but few entrepreneurs care only about the dollars and cents. For most, going into work every day is also about making the world a slightly better place and helping your team get better at what they do. In other words, most business owners aspire to be not just managers but coaches. How do you learn to be a great coach?
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How experts think, the power of framing, the miracle of attention, the weird world of cognitive biases and more…
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When we get wrapped up in the quicksand of daily tasks, deadlines and meetings, we often forget to value the most essential aspect of our company: the ...
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Today, employees demand trust and respect. They want their input solicited, their strengths utilized, and their contributions valued. Furthermore, every employee should be given the opportunity to reach his or her full potential.
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Employees of this new breed want to work for an organization they can feel proud of.
"Commitment" ... the difference between "having a job" and "making a living". Ask yourself, are you committed to making a living? How have you setup and developed your people so they can make a living?
El compromiso da alas a la organización. Aquellas organizaciones que consiguen el compromiso de sus colaboradores tienen menores costes de no calidad, mejores productividades y una mayor rentabilidad, además de cómo incide en el clima ... las recetas son sencillas y, bajo mi perspectiva, de puro sentido común, otra cuestión es que vayan por vías diferentes a cómo estamos acostumbrados.