Articles
Leadership Impact - a new perspective
The search for great sustainable leadership is almost as old as the search for the Holy Grail! However after years of research and hundreds of check-lists of capabilities the "perfect leader" should possess, could we have been missing something?
The Performance Equation - What makes truly great, sustainable performance? Considerations that lie behind building great sporting performance contain lessons often overlooked in organisational and buisness life. All performance depends upon more than talent or capability.
Be Inconsistent - it's what makes you happy and successful! Marie Shelton and Steve Carter's article outlines Reversal Theory's Eight Motivational States, and how if harnessed they can help you become "wonderfully flexible, adaptable and capable of personal change".
Beyond Boundaries - Building yourself a new future through adventure Tired of battling the recession, feeling you’re banging your head on a brick wall, wondering what on earth you should do with your life? Then it might just be the moment for a little adventure says psychologist and adventurer Steve Carter
Maintaining Performance in Tough Times
Organisations face really tough times. Responding effectively to this will require more than cost cutting and retrenchment. More critical will be a renewal of the purpose and sustainability of organisations which will be achieved through more audacious leadership.
Enjoying Stress
We all know what stress is, right? It’s about being anxious, especially too anxious for too long. It’s what we feel when deadlines loom, when we suspect that we are not up to the next challenge at work, when we fear losing our job, when our child is ill. We agonise about what is going to happen, we cannot see anyway out, we even experience panic. Our bodies become aroused, and tense up. This is what anxiety is; it’s the way that our brain interprets this bodily arousal and turns it into emotion.
Make Your Staff Feel Valued
The need for organisations to inspire their employees to want to give their very best performance at work is more pressing and urgent than it has ever been...
The secret of maximising business success by adopting radical new thinking about employee motivation…
A Certain Blindness in Mod Psychology
Those of us who are researchers in psychology are privileged to be working on the most interesting phenomena imaginable...
A Motivationally Rich Environment
With the realisation that it needed to enhance its leadership capability across Europe, SABMiller is working with Apter international to provide a highly innovative approach to management development and leadership...
The Myths of Motivation
An awful lot of nonsense gets talked about motivation, much of it to people in business and other kinds of organisations by motivational speakers...
More Serious than Playful
Here’s a scenario you might recognise - a team of hardworking employees, who have already been successful in working together, is given a new set of targets - their toughest yet - by senior management keen to see how much value and profitability can be squeezed out of them.
Change is Not What it Used to Be
The nature of change ‘There are two things we can say for certain about the future. It will be different – and it will surprise.’
Market Volatility, Organisations and RT
It is no news that the world is changing. In particular the world of organisations where the impact of information technology has, almost without exception, left every industry tackling fundamental shifts in the way successful organisations operate...
Mentoring and Motivational Versatility
The present paper is intended as an exploration of the relevance of reversal theory for mentoring...