Motivation

Big wins vs. small wins?

Posted in Motivation, SpeedTraining on September 14th, 2011 by Annette – Be the first to comment
A record Euromillions jackpot of £138 million has gone to a French winner after the latest rollover draw. This comes hot on the heels of the Ayrshire couple, the biggest Euromillions winners of all time, who won £161 million in July.
These huge amounts of money are almost too difficult to comprehend, although many of us will have indulged in an ‘if only…’ daydream on hearing the news, as we planned how we would spend all that money! 
But what of the ‘small wins’ of everyday life? Those little triumphs and achievements that often go unnoticed? A recent Harvard Business Review article stressed the importance of these small wins in the business world but also, more surprisingly, in our personal lives too. read more »

Strengths-based development – the link to engagement

Posted in Development, Motivation, Performance management, SpeedTraining on February 13th, 2011 by Annette – Be the first to comment

At a recent Igniting Performance SpeedTraining Workshop we had an interesting discussion about the place of strengths-based development in organisations.  You know the theory – that generally we spend too much time and resources focusing on ‘correcting’ our weaknesses (usually things that we are never going to be that good at anyway), rather than identifying, and then further developing, our true strengths and talents – and finding a way to use these more in our work (and life). read more »

How to increase motivation during Learning at Work Day

Posted in Learning, Motivation, SpeedTraining on May 17th, 2010 by Annette – 1 Comment

It’s Adult Learners Week this week, championed by the Campaign for Learning, with the national Learning at Work Day  (LAW) falling on Thursday 20th May 2010. SpeedTraining is joining in the campaign by offering free access to our specially designed Time Management resources on SpeedTraining Online.

There is a wider question here: how do we motivate ourselves to really engage in our own learning? And, more broadly, how do we harness the motivation of other people, particularly those who have not been involved in formal learning for a long time, or just feel under-confident about their own abilities? read more »