by Mark Donovan | Jul 21, 2023 | Uncategorised
I was recently working with a company to raise its employee engagement and increase its staff retention. Study after study has shown that appreciation is one of the key workplace engagers. When I work with leadership teams one of the first things I ask them is, ‘what...
by Mark Donovan | Jul 14, 2023 | Uncategorised
The question I want to ask you today is… Do you want to be liked or do you want to be respected? When I ask this question to leaders that I work with, they all say they want to be respected. But when we start to examine the behaviors they exhibit, it is quite the...
by Mark Donovan | Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorised
Motivation is often seen as something we can ‘do’ to another person. This is not so, we can’t motivate someone else to do something… try getting your kids to study! What we can do is, create an environment where people will be engaged to motivate themselves. ...
by Mark Donovan | Jun 23, 2023 | Uncategorised
My mother told me a story once which I feel is apt for these strange and challenging times we sometimes live in. My brother and I were going off to school one morning when my mother said to my father as he was also leaving for work. “I feel sorry for the boys having...
by Mark Donovan | Jun 16, 2023 | Uncategorised
As leaders, we need to ‘continually challenge the perception of ourselves’. When a large gap exists between how we see ourselves and how others see us, this leads to ‘leadership blind spots. This is why feedback from others is so important, it’s like a mirror that...
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