In the next two blogs, I’m going to explore management styles and how impactful they are on motivating individuals and teams within your business.
Type X management focuses on the extrinsic desires of employees around job security and rewards.
Type Y management focuses on the intrinsic desires of employees around autonomy and personal satisfaction within the activity itself.
The start of a new year brings the gift of opportunity and it starts with questions.
What can I achieve this year?
How can I be the best version of myself?
How can I spend more time with the people I care about and experience more happiness?
How can I spend more time doing my best work?
What can I deliver the universe?
Now we are back on deck for the year, I thought I’d share with you 9 Tactics to set up your year for extraordinary success.
Jerry Seinfeld talked about the morning guy hating the night guy.
Are you an early-bird or a night-owl?
The research finds that most of us are neither. But we do have biorhythms throughout the day that rotate through three primary cycles- Peak, Trough and Recovery.
But how does understanding these three primary cycles help us plan our business day?
In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom faces the dreary task of whitewashing his Aunt’s fence. Bored with the thought of ‘work’ he promotes the opportunity as ‘play’ to his friends managing to enlist a willing workforce to replace him.
The key motivational principle that Twain highlights here is that work is behaviour we are obliged to do, whereas play is behaviour one chooses to do.
Read on to learn how to implement “The Sawyer Effect”…
I was talking to my great friend Mark about how I had started a little experiment where I introduced micro-bursts of exercise whenever I could throughout the day. Just taking the opportunity to walk and move.
Mark turned casually and stated – “I call that incidental exercise”.
We then went on to speak about a small actions can address a major modern problem.
