Employee Motivation Checklist - Ten Measures of SuccessWritten by Martin Haworth
In form of a simple easy to use checklist, you can score how well you are doing out of 10. Better still, ask them. It's like what they describe as a mini-360o, where your people get chance to give you feedback. Only here it is a lot easier and far far cheaper! But then it's how you handle results of feedback that counts most.Scoring gives you focus and a better way of moving forward than some nebulous measure like 'Good' or even 'Excellent'. And that measuring is what can and will prompt you to make effort to move up a notch or two. Your own 'motivation' will require you to have same conditions delivered well by your boss, so there is opportunity to give upwards feedback yourself too. That is such a powerful thing for you to do. Feedback in this way is a high level of intimacy in a business relationship - if you take it up. So, have fun and use this checklist to see if you are doing all you can to 'Motivate' people in your business. - I have easy, regular conversations with my people ___/10
| | Creativity Management – Measurement, benchmarking and ImprovementWritten by Kal Bishop
Contrary to common perception, creativity can be made tangible, measurable and useable. In terms of measurement, benchmarking and improvement, first step is to decide on definitions, second is to decide on methods of measurement and finally, to monitor each measurement for improvement.Definitions of creativity are not elusive. In fact, number of definitions helps analyst better define creativity and refine its management: a)Coming up with original ideas. Misleading. It can be compellingly argued that all new ideas are actually evolutions of previous ideas. Implies a break from past. b)Recombination. The recombination of existing elements to form something new. Thus creativity is not something completely new but relatively new. Offers a practical method. For example, Synectics – practice of taking two elements and consciously creating new links and elements from them. c)Novel and useful solutions. Does not imply a complete break with past and introduces concept of applicability. Can be extrapolated to arrive at creative and critical thinking. Where creative thinking is used generate a large idea pool and critical thinking is used to reduce that pool to feasible ideas. Implies that creativity can be measured according to degrees of novelty. Someone who expands on Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is not as creative as Einstein was as ideas are not as novel.
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