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The Motivation Blog
News, Articles, and helpful tips about Motivation and Engagement.


HOW TO SET GOALS AND ACTUALLY ACHIEVE THEM
If-Then Planning is a brilliant system that came out of research on motivation to help accomplish your goals and form healthy habits....
Jun 6, 20222 min read


5 Things I Know Now - How to Be a More Effective Business Leader
What does it take to bring out the absolute best in you and your business? Ambition, passion and a willingness to give things a go, fail,...
Feb 8, 20221 min read


9 Ways to Empower Your Team
If you do these nine things, then you are really going to be covering all the potential bases, and appealing to every type of motivator.
Nov 30, 20217 min read


It's Okay to Struggle: It's Time Leaders and Teams Understood That
In business (and sport) we're focussed on performance, and rightly so. There are 3 elements to performance: 1) a clear direction or...
Sep 1, 20211 min read


The Top Way to Motivate and Engage Your Team - Podcast
Listen Here! Join The Business Motivator, Susannah Brade-Waring, in the latest episode of the Impromptu Business Chat Podcast with hosts...
Aug 23, 20211 min read


How to be a more Confident, Effective, and Profitable Coach
There are many ways to increase your confidence as a coach, to generate more business and make a bigger difference.
Jul 13, 20215 min read


The Motivational Maps Experience 3 - with Richard Knight
Richard Knight is customer-experience director of Insight6, and a performance consultant at Switch Performance Ltd. He is a qualified...
May 10, 20216 min read


The Motivational Maps Experience 2 - with Zsuzsa Czagler
Zsuzsa is a Motivational Maps Business Practitioner: an ICF ACC coach, NLP Master, and Liberating Leadership practitioner, with 19 years ...
Apr 26, 20213 min read


The Motivational Maps Experience 1 - with Sonia Gavira
‘What it also told me,’ Sonia continues. ‘Was that my dislike of talking about myself and putting myself in the limelight (Star was then...
Apr 12, 20213 min read


Is "Employee of the Month" Killing Business Motivation?
Many, many businesses have tried ‘employee of the month’-like schemes… but they don’t work.
Mar 1, 20213 min read


Profiling Tools for Business Advisors
James: Hi all, welcome to this episode of the Authentic Advisor, which discusses and debates the Hot Topics impacting Business Advisors...
Feb 15, 202113 min read


Is your company putting pennies over people?
Money is a fascinating motivator. At one level, everyone accepts that money’s important and that they should be paid for the work they...
Feb 1, 20213 min read


Do friendships really have value at work?
Belonging is recognised by Motivational Maps® through the ‘Friend’ motivator, the desire to belong, to be included, supported and to feel...
Jan 18, 20214 min read


Is your business CREATIVELY competitive?
Long before Brexit and the COVID-19 Crisis, organizations have been operating in a VUCA business environment – volatile, uncertain,...
Jan 4, 20213 min read


How can Stability help your business Change & GROW through the crisis? Sounds contradictory, right?
Everyone is motivated by security to a smaller or lesser degree. This varies with age, personal circumstances and job roles. It certainly...
Dec 2, 20203 min read


The Army's Newest Weapon
In the last decade the army has suffered from decreasing numbers of applications. Army advertisements in the past have used videos...
Nov 30, 20202 min read


Is Procrastination Useful?
What if procrastination at work isn’t just laziness or a poor work ethic?
Nov 23, 20202 min read


Motivational Maps and Zig Ziglar
“Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things...
Nov 16, 20205 min read


Why is this Recruitment Advert so Effective?
“So you can fix a bike… then you can learn to fix a Lynx Mark Eight Helicopter” This is the hook used by the Royal Navy Engineers. For...
Nov 9, 20201 min read


MOTIVATION & TEAMS: LEADERSHIP & 3 TOOLS FOR DEVELOPING TEAMS
As Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor and philosopher, observed: “The secret of all victory lies in the organisation of the non-obvious”.
Oct 26, 20206 min read
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