Business motivation is measurable!

by on October 10, 2022in Bevis Moynan, Business Development

The problem with business motivation is that previously we haven’t really known what to do about it… Organisations have thought that money has been the main business motivation. Yet we can now demonstrate that money is one of only nine motivational preferences at work. When you know what motivates each member of your team you can actively enhance business motivation. As a Manager you have little choice but to manage people based upon what motivates you, or at best your best guess of what motivates each person and I can guarantee from personal experience that that will not be accurate…

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A Thousand Steps

by on January 17, 2020in Bevis Moynan, Personal development

‘A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step’ Lao Tzu I want to write a novel – it’s a daunting task. I need about a hundred thousand words. If I sit down and work out how long it will take me if I write 500 words, 5 days a week, I will be totally fazed and consider it impossible. So, what do I do? I write the first word and then the next. Well – that’s the theory! Don’t get me wrong, there’s a plan. I more or less know where I am going but I…

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Control you emotions

Who controls your emotions?

by on December 4, 2019in Bevis Moynan, Personal development

Do your emotions control you or do you control your emotions?  Do you know that we do things in order to change the way we feel?  Think of eating that bar of chocolate or drinking that G&T – why are we doing it?  Are we doing it to change the way we are feeling?  Maybe to calm us down, to cheer us up or to make us feel better?   Sometimes we go shopping to reward ourselves or to cheer ourselves up.  All the time that we self-medicate with our chosen ‘drug’ we are letting our emotions control us.  But actually…

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gratitude

Gratitude and how to feel it..

by on November 29, 2019in Bevis Moynan, Personal development

‘Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow ‘ – Melody Beattie Melody Beattie has had a number of big challenges in her life and has gone on to write many inspirational books.  One of her main points is the benefit that we could all gain from identifying things in our life that we are grateful for.  This can be tricky.  Some of us get ill, lose our jobs, lose close friends and relatives.  Sometimes it’s really hard to find something to feel positive and upbeat about and certainly nothing to feel grateful about.  Our…

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Teamwork

Teamwork-The components of real teams

by on November 4, 2019in James Sale, Leadership

When organisations approach us to improve teamwork and to motivate and level-up their teams, I would often ask the all important question: “Are you a group or are you a team?” I’m often met with a question in return: “What do you mean?” or “What’s the difference?” The difference could not be more profound. A group of talented individuals, who are not really a team, will never perform as well, in the long run, as less talented individuals functioning as a team. A good example of this would be national football teams. The logic in assembling national teams is often that if…

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Child engagement

by on September 20, 2019in Mapping for Children and Young People

It’s the time of year when parents across the country collectively exhale and reflect on a busy summer.   For some it has been a summer filled with fun, laughter and adventures.   For others it’s been a stressful time, trying to juggle childcare and work and never quite pleasing everyone or indeed anyone. I find myself in the former group and I felt somewhat deflated after taking my children to their respective classes.   One of them approached with enthusiasm and the other one was quite the opposite! Our summer has been filled with very little structure; we spent time together in…

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Youth Motivational Maps

by on July 15, 2019in Bevis Moynan, Motivational Maps

I have often wondered what on earth made my children do what they did.  But they are all grown up now and have careers and children and do adult things.  When they were little they were often a bit of a mystery.  I did try to work it out.  I thought ‘well this one keeps taking his bike apart, he must like practical things’.  Then I had one who drifted and day dreamed, I guessed he would meander through life and his older brother was diligent and followed his Dad’s footsteps.  That’s the boys.  Now my daughter is a different kettle of fish altogether.  She was…

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What’s stopping you with a new career?

by on July 3, 2019in Bevis Moynan

Have you been thinking of taking up a new career?  Maybe there is something exciting that you have always wanted to do but for one reason or another you have never quite got round to it. Do you have a small voice in the back of your head telling you why it won’t work?  Perhaps you are afraid?    Here’s some good news for you.  There are a couple of things that you can do today that will make a real difference.    Where to start? First of all, book onto a course that will really help.  Find out what motivates you and from…

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anxiety

Anxiety, a client’s perspective

by on June 27, 2019in Bevis Moynan

OK – so you reckon I’m not really anxious? What about that worry I have that I might not be able to pay my mortgage next month? I feel pretty anxious about that. And I think that my best friend is really cross with me – that’s certainly causing some anxiety. In fact, I feel uptight and stressed. Its all very well but actually……. Wow, just slow down. This is how I used to feel much of the time. Until, that is, I learnt how to get on top of these thoughts. Because that’s all they are; thoughts. My anxiety…

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beliefs

Beliefs

by on May 22, 2019in Bevis Moynan, Personal development

‘Our beliefs strongly influence our behaviour’ (‘Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming’ Connor & Seymour)  – a really strong statement.  A quick example – if you believe that you can’t sing then you are most unlikely to consider joining a choir.    So why do we have beliefs?  Our belief system is how we make sense of our world.  We believe in the laws of nature, we know that we can’t step off tall buildings and survive, we know that fire burns and that night follows day.  We learn these things as we grow up but we also learn beliefs that shape our lives.  Our parents…

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