Carrots & Sticks – The Art & Science of Motivation

Carrots & Sticks – The Art & Science of Motivation

Motivating individuals as a Manager is ‘part art and part science’.

The art part are the psychological factors around relationships and buy-in from a team member. Motivation here is more freestyling in empowering individuals through autonomy, mastery and purpose discussed previously in my blog Are you a Type X or Type Y Manager and why it matters? 

The science part is the framework within the team member and Manager work throughout the project. This is more structured and includes objectives, scope, timelines and deliverables. Motivation here is influenced by concise outcomes, not on how to achieve but on what and when we do it.

Are you Type X or a Type Y Manager and why it matters?

Are you Type X or a Type Y Manager and why it matters?

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.

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9 Tactics To Set Up Your Year For Extraordinary Success

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9 Tactics To Set Up Your Year For Extraordinary Success

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.

Identifying your Peak, Trough & Recovery Zones

Identifying your Peak, Trough & Recovery Zones

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?

The Sawyer Effect

The Sawyer Effect

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”…