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Engineers and motivation

Motivation is one of the many subjects we discussed at the recent 1 Day Mini MBA event in Sydney. The list below is interesting because it dovetails into the discussion we had concerning motivational factors versus what Dr Herzberg refers to as hygiene factors (which can only serve to demotivate). Most managers don’t understand the […]

Be careful when asking for staff feedback

Most management consultants promote asking for staff or employee feedback. You might want to re-think that advice after reading the responses obtained at an airline repair division. Remember, it takes a college degree to fly a plane but only a high school diploma to fix one. After every flight, Qantas pilots fill out a form, […]

You need courage to be the boss

You might have noticed a theme in the last few blog posts – toxic staff… You might think I am anti “employees”, but you’d be wrong. The problem does not lie solely with staff, but with who hired them in the first place. Once someone has been hired, it’s increasingly harder to get rid of […]

How To Determine If You Should Let Someone Go

Today’s blog post is quick and easy. Letting someone go is never easy, but every once in a while, it’s necessary. Here is a quick way to know if you should let someone go. Ask yourself this simple question: “If I knew then what I know now about this person (all the good and bad), […]

Employees: Are You An Asset Or A Liability?

For me, there are only two types of employees: Those who are assets and those who are liabilities. Wonder which one you are? Take this simple test: When asked to do something, do you say “yes, then maybe, then no” or do you respond with “no, then maybe and then yes” (reluctantly)? If you are […]

Pareto Principle Applied To Professional Development

We’ve all heard of the Pareto Principle, the 80-20 Rule. What I found intriguing and interesting is Engineering Education Australia’s take on it when the Pareto Principle is applied to professional development. When you click on the hyperlink, you can read the blog post that says it all – you either have an Exponential Mindset™ […]

Grass Greener On The Other Side?

In a recent Financial Review article, Michael Mauboussin, author of Think Twice: Harnessing The Power of Counterintuition, explained how star performers fail when they switch companies. His explanations and identification of the three sources of perceptual distortion is absolutely brilliant. This is the kind of stuff that is being collated, collected and assembled for Professional […]

You get what you focus on

Recently, a client was being bagged by an ex employee and asked me what to do about it. I told her that the Law Of Attraction is more powerful than gravity and will reward her for focusing on the positive side of things rather than the negative. Whenever I come across people who complain and […]