May, 2011

The Recovering Engineer

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Employee Motivation Tips: Their Personal Life

The Recovering Engineer

Many leaders struggle with finding ways to motivate people to higher level performance. I have already written that you cannot motivate another person. So, let’s set aside the idea that the leader provides the motivation and move on to the idea that a leader can learn to identify the things that do motivate the people on his or her team. In previous posts, I wrote about Three Clues You Can Use to Find What Motivates Another Person and A Simple Model for Understanding What Drives Behavior.

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The ABC’s of Life: Express Thanks

The Recovering Engineer

As I continue this post series inspired by The ABC’s of Life wall hanging pictured above, I am again struck by both the simplicity of the concept and the apparent difficulty many of us have with living out these powerful thoughts. Today’s thought is to express thanks. It’s not really that hard to do. Or is it? When we are tired, thinking about other things, or feeling awkward, we can overlook the idea of expressing thanks.

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