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The CEO of MarkTwo Consulting, Mark Oliver, has written several published thought leadership books and articles providing practical insights into the key issue of human motivation, and how to translate this with timeless wisdom and insights applicable to our changing modern workplace.
Below are a collection of some of his written Blogs.
Also below is a link to watch some of his short video blogs (between 1.5-3 mins each) on key challenges in the workplace.
The video blogs are:
1. Three Common Hiring Mistakes
2. Turning Average Performers into High Performers
3. Three Reasons People Resist Change
4. How to Give Good Feedback
5. Two Key Things to Remember When Handling Conflict
6. Warning Signals of Psychopaths
7. How Can You Find Your Purpose in Life?
CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO BLOGS
See below for his written blogs.
Managers are often given conflicting advice on how to successfully lead teams.
Feedback helps keep people and things on track. For instance, it gets a passenger plane from Sydney to London.
When it comes to staff meetings, you might notice that certain people are consistently quieter than others and rarely speak up. Their silence can be misconstrued as a lack of interest.
Read more: 4 Ways To Get The Most Out Of Introverts In Your Staff Meeting
According to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2021 report, global employee engagement decreased by 2 percentage points from 2019 to 2020, and employees reported higher worry, stress, anger, and sadness in 2020 than they had in the previous year.
Socrates is famous for saying; "The unexamined life is not worth living." People are the biggest driving force on Earth for good or evil - hadn't we better know what makes us tick?
Refuting this myth introduces two attendant issues:
Our personality model suggests that for any group of humans to be successful over a long period of time, there needs to be at least 8 types of personality, with each being more advantageous in different situations.
Command-and-control managers get frustrated because they believe that motivating employees demands a lot of effort. Being a leader and exerting authority aren’t the same thing.
Read more: Myth: “It's Impossible To Motivate Unmotivated Staff”
It would be a shame if good leadership meant we had to be charismatic, as charisma is not very trainable. If charisma was a significant component of leadership, much of the money put to leadership training would be wasted.
Yes, there are 7 principles and they are:
Read more: Do you know the 7 Principles for setting up talent pools?
