Employee Motivation and Productivity

Live discussion from Employee Engagement experts – 7th September @ 5.30pm Does your organisation have 100% fully committed and engaged workforce? Could your employee’s motivation and engagement perhaps be better? …

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…

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…

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”…

Fourth in the list of big performance review mistakes, according to Eric Jackson on Forbes.com, is lack of preparation – doing appraisal meetings “on the fly.”  Eric says he “knew…

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…

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

What is team leadership and how do leaders nurture employee engagement? For leadership to work, the leader has to be someone the others will follow. So how do you become…

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…

Did you know that social media use at work costs employers over 2.25 Billion dollars a year in lost productivity?  Or that employees who smoke are away from their workstations…

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…