Motivation
Workplace motivation is one of the most important aspects of good management. It may be a complex, frustrating issue, but unless it is understood, and managed effectively, few organizations will flourish.
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I am writing a training handbook for my company. May I use the stories … I find them wonderfully uplifting.
Pat, Zimbabwe
So to help we’ve put together some great articles, tools and resources on workplace motivation. Identifying and developing what motivates is one of the key management skills.
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We explain why we think these guides can make a difference for you in our article about getting the right mix of employee motivation factors in place. You’ll find plenty to help motivate yourself, and critically then motivate others.
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Read on for our free motivation resources, here you’ll find insights, ideas, stories and quotes, all designed to help you encourage motivation in the workplace.
The best place to start is with our two mini-series. Motivating Employees to Perform introduces our PERFORM model, designed to put motivation at the heart of performance.
Then read Optimum Performance in the Workplace, full of handy tips to help you stay a motivated manager.
These pages are among the most popular on the Happy Manager, packed with advice on how to motivate employees.
“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.” John Ruskin
Ideas
Creating a Happy Workplace: Is Happiness Good for Business? Few would argue that creating a happy workplace is worthwhile in its own right, but can happiness...
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How Do You Define Your Work? What’s your motivation in the workplace? In our article leadership quality, we related a famous story about three stonecutters. In...
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The most important aspect of good management? Workplace motivation may be a complex, frustrating issue, but unless it is understood, and managed effectively, few organisations will flourish. Some...
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Leadership stories: the essence of leadership Can leadership be learned? We think so and reading our growing collection of leadership stories is an excellent way to illustrate this....
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Motivate with motivational stories… Motivational stories have the power to go where no business plan has ever been! In business, as in life, stories can captivate the heart,...
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…by Getting the Right Things Done. Would you characterise your actions as sharp or blunt? “Improving Management Skills” is the sixth article in our series on improving motivation...
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It’s Difficult to be Creative When you Feel Stale Do you feel fresh or stale at work? “Positive Attitude in the Workplace” is the fifth article in our...
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How do you feel about work? Are you suffering from job burnout or does work energise you? Job Burnout is the fourth article in our series on improving...
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What is the secret of my success?” This is something we often hear from wealthy or famous people, usually in response to an interview question. What follows is...
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Reading personal development stories is one of the best ways to add wisdom, wit, vision, colour, and fun to your personal development plan. Whatever your goal, whether personal...
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Motivational Quotes from the Happy Manager Welcome to our collection of motivational quotes. Looking for inspiration, or simply trying to think differently about something? A quotation can draw...
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Inspiring Performance! There are several ways to define performance management. In our article: Definition of Performance Management, we consider features from some of the more traditional definitions. These...
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Creating Discretionary Time It could be argued that a key element of time management in the workplace is choice. Psychologists argue that the more control we feel we...
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Work Motivation – Play to Your Strengths When it comes to work motivation: what’s your view of work – are you weighed-down or buoyed up? There is one...
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Let it Flow Does self motivation come easy for you? If not, perhaps you should consider the work of positive psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced: Chick-sent-me-high-ee). He found that...
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What makes a good manager? Effective management does require the co-ordination of analytical, administrative and organisational skills. But perhaps it also requires something else. Whether you’re entering a...
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The Value of a Good Manager? People Leave Managers Not Companies! What’s the value of a good manager? “People leave managers, not companies” is a headline that immediately...
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… to PERFORM! Knowing how to motivate employees is one of the most important aspects of a manager’s job. An excellent tool to help you develop your motivational...
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In Search of Optimum Performance How do you go about improving motivation at work? Perhaps by seeking optimum performance. Managing is essentially a balancing act. The manager’s role...
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Take it step by step! Curiously, one of the biggest barriers to goal setting can be too much focus on the bigger picture. It’s one thing to set...
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Try the Road Less Travelled Ever thought about where you’re going? Is your destination success? This article combines a classic motivational poem with the priceless advice of best-selling...
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Tips & Tools
“Finding Flow”, By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. “If we really want to live, we’d better start at...
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The Hierarchy of Needs The Maslow motivation theory is one of the best known and...
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Six Questions to Build a Flourishing Workplace What makes a happy company? There is a...
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Without self motivation skills to manage and renew your energy, the desire to get things...
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The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation The Daily Drucker is an invaluable...
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What do Business Leaders Say? Looking for some insights from the best? Our quotes on...
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Self Motivation Techniques: Coping with Work Difficulties Sometimes we may need self motivation techniques to...
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Intrinsic Extrinsic Motivation: the Basics Do you want to understand the basics of intrinsic extrinsic...
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A definition of performance management can help bring some clarity to what is often seen...
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More Quotes on Happiness Here are some more of our favourite quotes on happiness. Many...
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What makes a good manager? Well, effective management does require the co-ordination of analytical, administrative...
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