When Germany, the most productive nation in Europe, decides to try out WFH via a 4-Day-Working-Week, one has to ask ‘why?’ given the debate ongoing about its pros and cons – it turns out they seek not just to improve their productivity performance, which has been stalling, via extra workforce motivation but also to offset …
Category: 11. Motivation
Jan 13
Team Morale Is Vital
Significant productivity improvement depends not only on the mix of people involved, their numbers and quality, and the methods they employ to serve their customers, whether using existing resources and/ or new investments, but also, and often overlooked, the team’s motivation level – and that is very much determined by their manager The following interesting …
Jun 21
How to run a business – Lord Wolfson
According to The Times, Lord Simon Wolfson, boss of Next, is the longest serving and highly successful CEO in the FTSE 100, having clocked 14.1% compound annual EPS growth over the last 20 years – hence his rules for creating the right company culture on how to run a business are well worth considering Take …
Feb 19
Well-being matters – a lot
A recent article from the World Economic Forum by Alexi Robichaux, co-founder and CEO, BetterUp Inc, highlights the importance of well-being in the workplace – modern employees want to know that their work matters, and management is uniquely positioned to provide this sense of mattering to the workforce. Managers are held accountable for delivering …
Nov 30
Wellbeing – Why Does It Matter?
Some may find the following offers useful food for thought, others consider it just commonsense and a tad long – Gallup are advertising their modestly titled ‘advanced global research and advice’ for understanding an organisation’s wellbeing needs, prioritising interventions and creating meaningful change – wellbeing is certainly a topic of interest gaining momentum in the …
Oct 22
How becoming a kinder version of yourself boosts productivity
My wife, Rhona, once said: “There’s no downside to being kind” and I quoted her at the start of ‘Productivity Knowhow’ Revisited, little realising the impact that kindness might have on productivity – until this article just published in ‘Fast Company’ by Stephanie Vozza – and apologies upfront to those anti her use of 4-letter …
Oct 07
How to boost productivity with ‘Autonomous Motivation’
Some interesting thoughts from Dr Marc Nickell, a Forbes Business Council member and co-founder of Rocket Station – he is ‘obsessed with the pursuit of better practices’ – extracts from a recent article follow The success of your business depends on the team of people who work in your office. Their productivity is directly …
Sep 09
Collaboration Overload Is Sinking Productivity
An article about employees’ changed workloads in this new post-pandemic era, published by the renowned Harvard Business Review , written by Rob Cross, Mike Benson, Jack Kostal and R J Milnor – and precised below Collaborative work — the time spent on email, IM, phone and video calls — has risen 50% or more over the …
Jun 29
Prioritise employee wellbeing
A chap called Barney Cotton, writing in the Business Leader, recommends prioritising employee well-being, the latest hot business topic, or companies may suffer greatly Personio, a European HR software for SMEs, is calling for businesses to prioritise employee wellbeing alongside company culture – or risk a boom of burnout, and in the worst cases, …