Posts Tagged ‘motivation’
Managing and Leading in tougher times
Managing and team leading in 2010 and beyond is more demanding than ever before with the challenge of raising and maintain morale and motivation in a smaller workforce in which people:
- have less job security than ever before
- are often dealing with an increased workload as a result of staff cuts
- are experiencing the stress of having to adjust to almost continuous change. Read the rest of this entry »
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I was feeling pretty good as I made my first coffee of the day at 7.10 am this morning (for the record that’s Saturday 16 January 2010). The snow had not affected plans for the 3rd module of our NLP Master Practitioner Programme – and I was looking forward to going in to facilitate today’s session and was happily anticipating some of the good things we were going to be doing and exploring together.
Then I turned on Radio 4’s flagship Today news programme to find out what was happening in the big world out there.
Big mistake. I was just in time to hear presenter Jim Noughtie putting on his ‘sad-and-moving-story’ voice and beginning to read from one of the Rupert Murdoch tabloids…. “…the bloated and rotting corpses in the intense heat…” was all I heard.
Fortunately I was able to switch him off in time. It was about the terrible earthquake in Haiti, of course, and Jim had managed to evoke some images. Not what I, or anyone else, needs at any time let along 7.10 am as you begin your day. Read the rest of this entry »
