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The Magical Career Fairy Will Help You

Persuasive Powerhouse

Because you are doing such great work, she’ll soon tap you with her enchanted wand and sprinkle you with sparkly fairy dust and you’ll get that key project, significant promotion, raise, bonus or new career that you’ve been waiting for. She doesn’t exist, and career rewards for your great work don’t just appear.

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What’s Your Employee Value Proposition?

N2Growth Blog

I like to think of it in terms of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. You probably remember Maslow from your high school psychology class. Career Path/Recognition Programs: An employee’s “belonging needs” is met through these kinds of programs. What does that mean?

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Motivation in the Modern Workplace

The Center For Leadership Studies

Two contributing pioneers from “ the way-back machine ” in that regard were Abraham Maslow and Frederick Herzberg. The Hierarchy of Needs (Maslow, 1954). That is particularly the case for employees who have both potential and aspiration, but struggle to identify the particulars of where they want to go with their career.

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Leading with Trust

Great Leadership By Dan

Employers underestimate the importance of personal and career development on employee retention, vastly overestimating the importance of salary and benefits. Philosophers such as Aristotle, and psychologists including Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, and Martin Seligman have argued that personal growth is necessary for human flourishing.

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How The Six Goal Genres Resolve the Conflict of Goals vs Goallessness

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

What I am trying to do is feel comfortable being in the moment of my life, my career, my health…I know all too well that none of those important ‘issues’ are unchanging. So…is it a problem to feel goal-less in my life and career? Tomorrow I may lose my job, my health or even my life. Am I being less productive than I could be?

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How to Motivate Yourself

Let's Grow Leaders

Work your way up Maslow’s hierarchy. Go get more if you need it. And then, turn that love into something spectacular. this might not be unrelated to gene theory). Focus on Your Basic Needs First. If you need sleep and food, get that first. It’s hard to be motivated to change the world if you’re exhausted.

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Thought-full Thursday: Connecting

Persuasive Powerhouse

Simmons C-level Strategies and Awakenings Execupundit Fistful of Talent Great Leadership HR Bartender Inflexion Point John Baldoni Leading Blog Management Excellence Managing Leadership Michael Lee Stallard Mountain State University LeaderTalk QAspire Blog: Tanmay Vora Ramblings from a Glass Half Full Reflections for Personal and Business Development (..)

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