Motivating Employees

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How do you motivate employees? The traditional answer to this question has generally revolved around two types of motivation:  intrinsic and extrinsic. The employee who is intrinsically motivated is someone who experiences the joy of working as its own reward.  These employees are consistently on time, meet and usually exceed expectations, and contribute to a high company morale.

The employee who is extrinsically motivated is someone who would be attracted to working at a particular business because of factors outside themselves, such as money, time off, promotions, or recognition. These employees are less likely to make a substantial contribution to the organization because their first interest is themselves. Read More…

Dealing With Difficult People

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People are not difficult; they are simply triggered. When triggered, we, as human beings, engage in a wide array of irritating behaviors such as being angry, argumentative, self righteous, arrogant, sarcastic, withdrawn, sullen, abrupt — all of which are very difficult to deal with.

As long as you have a mindset that someone is difficult they will be more difficult to deal with.  (cite confirmation bias literature and self fulfilling prophecy stuff).

We have a company we have been working with for the past couple of years. The mid-management team was highly dysfunctional before we started our monthly sessions together.  Conflicts were the order of the day, and resolutions were few and far between.  There were personality issues, territorial issues, and competition for resources. This team was a mess. Read More…

Conflict Management

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One of the most difficult, and unfortunately prominent, problems in today’s workforce is Conflict Management. Conflict in marriage leads to divorce, conflict among countries usually leads to war.  Unmanaged conflict at work leads to a decline in morale, productivity, and bottom line profits.  Our reaction to, and method of dealing with conflict rather than the conflict itself is what causes painful, frightening or even damaging experiences.
Conflict occurs when there are two points of view in opposition to one another.  It is not the thoughts we have alone that trigger our conflict it is when we attach strong emotion to our thoughts that the conflict with others intensifies. Read More…