The Best Way To Motivate People
phasize forward progress -- not for the sake of the project, but for your team members. Harvard's Teresa Amabile's research found that nothing is more motivating than progress in meaningful work and nothing more taxing than setbacks. Via The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work: This pattern is what we call the progress principle: of all the positive events that influence inner work life, the single most powerful is progress in meaningful work;…
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How To Coach The Best Performance Out Of People, According To Research
xplanation, demonstration, imitation, correction, and repetition." Break down proper technique, quickly correct errors and get them to repeat until it's second nature. Via The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How: Gallimore and Tharp recorded and coded 2,326 discrete acts of teaching. Of them, a mere 6.9 percent were compliments. Only 6.6 percent were expressions of displeasure. But 75 percent were pure information: what to do, how to do it, when to intensify an activity. One of Wooden's…
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5 New Ways To Feel More Powerful, Backed By Research
e military makes soldiers stand up straight for a reason; there's an implicit connection between posture and power that has been demonstrated time and time again. Want to increase confidence? Make yourself tougher? Stand up straight. Clench your fists. Gestures should be palm down. Know how to speak with power. Deepen your voice. Speak first. Speak often. Repeat yourself. Interrupt people. Don't laugh. Elevate yourself when standing. Sit in the center during meetings. Dress appropriately. It makes a difference. People…
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Would your team be more more creative if members were less experienced?
aming experienced people with the less experienced can result in better performance than either could do on their own. Those who are new to a subject stimulate creative thinking in those who are more accomplished. Via Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To: Experienced people benefit from hearing the thoughts of those who are less skilled in areas other than the business world. Pairing two university students of lower and higher…
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Here Are The 3 Steps For Getting People To Pay Attention To You
her excellent book 100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People, Susan Weinschenk lays out a research backed 3 step process that really impressed me: 1) Start with what you know they believe. If you start your presentation with the opposite of what they believe, they may turn you off right away. For example, if you start a presentation to me by saying how amazing Android phones are or that Android phones are superior to iPhones, then you’ve…
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How To Speak With Power
a The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism: Speak slowly. Visualize the contrast between a nervous, squeaky teenager speaking at high speed and the slow, emphatic tone of a judge delivering a verdict. Pause. People who broadcast confidence often pause while speaking. They will pause for a second or two between sentences or even in the middle of a sentence. This conveys the feeling that they’re so confident in their power, they trust…
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The Best Way To Dress When You Want To Influence Someone
search shows you should either: 1) Dress formally or, 2) Dress like they do: Via The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism: In the 1970s, when young adults’ dress styles tended to fall into either the “hippie” or the “straight” category, researchers experimented with the effects of clothing choice. They approached college students on a campus, sometimes wearing hippie clothes and other times wearing straight clothes, and asked for change to make a…
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Here’s What Your Voice Tells Others About You
ople judge you by your voice in many ways. Via Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior: The result: speakers with higher-pitched voices were judged to be less truthful, less emphatic, less potent, and more nervous than speakers with lower-pitched voices. Also, slower-talking speakers were judged to be less truthful, less persuasive, and more passive than people who spoke more quickly. “Fast-talking” may be a cliché description of a sleazy salesman, but chances are, a little speedup will make…
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