by Ira Wolfe | Aug 13, 2015 | Business Values & Motivators, Career Development, Employee Motivation
If you ever wondered if your employees value continuous learning as much as you do (or is required by the industry or your company culture), you’ll want to read this post. Companies spend billions of dollars each year on employee training. Unfortunately much of...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 5, 2015 | Business Values & Motivators, Employee Motivation
Perhaps poet and author Carl Sandburg said it best: “Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.” It might be fair to say that we are all motivated by money. After all, we need money to put food in our bellies, clothes on our...
by Ira Wolfe | Jul 20, 2015 | Business Values & Motivators, Employee Motivation
“I see dead trees,” Steve told his employer a few years earlier. “And that’s why I’m quitting my job.” Today Steve designs log cabins for a small manufacturer in PA. He’s been working here for about two years. The owner...
by Ira Wolfe | Jul 16, 2015 | Career Development, Employee Motivation, Employee Performance Management
Advice to deal with toxic employees seem more abundant than sand in a desert. The problem is that without cooperation from the employee you might as well be shoveling with a rake! So let’s begin with the employee or manager who feels his success in life is...
by Ira Wolfe | Jun 29, 2015 | Business Values & Motivators, Employee Motivation
For many, there is no value added to the performance or the workplace when it comes to Aesthetics motivation. But let’s take a moment to think more deeply about Aesthetics and what it means to be motivated by form, art, and balance. We will likely find one or more...
by Ira Wolfe | Apr 28, 2015 | Career Development, Employee Motivation
Success Performance Solutions has announced the release of its newest white paper titled unproductive: The Dirty Little Secret about Employee Motivation. With skill gaps widening, time to hire increasing, and 8 out of 10 workers lacking the passion to reach their full...