If You Dare To Teach, You Must Never Cease To Learn. If you dare to teach, you must never cease to learn. You may have a leadership title at work, or you may be called on to exert some leadership in your home. But somewhere or other, you serve as a leader. That means you’re also a teacher. You’re teaching people …
Education Without Motivation
Education Without Motivation Serves No Useful Purpose. Last week I wrote about the fact that motivation is not enough, but neither is education. There are a lot of “educated” people who achieve very little on or off the job. They know what to do, and they know how to do it. The problem is they’re not motivated enough to do much about it. …
Six Strategies To Keep Employees Motivated In Uncertain Times
The certainty of misery is better than the misery of uncertainty. These are tough times for a lot of you. Just a year or two ago, you couldn’t find or keep enough employees, and you kept asking me to speak on recruitment and retention. Now some of you are facing the opposite problem. You are being forced to downsize your …
Constantly Train Your Employees – Or Risk Falling Behind
If you’re not in the process of learning more and getting better, your competition is, and when the two of you meet, guess who has the upper hand? Everyone knows that we are living in a time of information explosion. More information has been generated and disseminated in the last two years than in the previous two thousand years. It’s …