Employee Motivation and Productivity

Are your people motivated, productive and profitable? Follow these tips to nurture a people-first company culture where all your employees can become top performers.

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Four steps to the best employee retention strategy

So you already tried free yoga sessions, a pool table in the kitchen, discount health club, pilates in the lunchbreak and wacky colour schemes in the relaxation zone, and you’re still…

Why are so many people unhappy at work?

One way to answer the question about why so many people hate their jobs is to remember the very best job you ever had and ask yourself what made it…

One thing every manager can do that always improves staff performance

One thing every manager can do that always improves staff performance

It’s Monday morning and I have a weekly management meeting with my director…. Last week was not a good week – we missed our numbers again ;-( As expected got…

Want to improve motivation at work? Take a walk…

Unsophisticated as it might sound, just walking is one of the best things you can do in the working day to improve motivation at work.  A new study shows that a few walks a…

New Year’s Revolution – make the annual review better!

As you may remember from Douglas Adams’ masterpiece “The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, the book of that name was a best-seller largely because it had the words “Don’t Panic”…

Is conscious business doomed? Quite the opposite…

One of the WeThrive team was at the Meaning Conference in Brighton last week – a Conscious Business event full of people who want to make business more meaningful and…

How WeThrive prevents performance review mistakes

There’s a great post by Eric Jackson on Forbes about why performance reviews cause aggravation, suggesting “ten ways you can ensure your next performance with your reports will be a…

How do you motivate sales people and set the right targets?

How do you motivate sales people?  Tradition holds that money is the way.  Forget all the research showing high-value rewards make people stupid, reduce productivity and encourage dishonesty – sales…

Employee engagement description: How Is It Defined?

It’s official – employee engagement is low, and getting worse.  If your company is able to work out how to improve it your employees put in more effort, are more…

What do the Olympics tell us about what motivates people?

Of all the thousands of hours of broadcasting and millions of words written about the 2012 Olympic Games, I think one paragraph stands out as having something really important to…