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Which factors motivate salespeople the most?

Probably almost more than any other position or role within an organisation, salespeople span the boundary between an organisation and the clients or customers. Additionally, the organisation’s salespeople act as consultants, problem solvers, value co-creators, knowledge brokers, essential parts of the open innovation and intelligence gathering/feedback process, as well as one of the main conduits […]

#compensation #extrinsic reward #incentives #money #purpose #quotas #reward #sales #salespeople #sense of purpose #work psychology

Fear of Failure and Self-sabotage, Self-handicapping and Self-deception

self-deceeption self-handicapping self-sabotage

Many people engage in self sabotage where they think, act and behave in ways that reduce their effectiveness or even sabotage their own success. Sometimes this is unconscious and sometimes is purposeful. Examples include students who party the night before an exam, professionals who watch a box set on TV or surf the internet, rather […]

#fear of failure #psychology #Self-deception #self-handicapping #self-sabotage #work psychology

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Nudge behaviour change – Is it real?

The book, ‘Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness’ In 2008 Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein published a book that created a whole new industry in behaviour change. The book, ‘Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness’ starts with the premise that paternalism, or the idea that experts with authority do often know […]

#behaviour change #change #choice architecture #nudge #nudging #Organisational change #work psychology

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A new study on toxic supervisor behaviours and employee silence

Toxic work environments Toxic work environments are as much a threat to an organisation from the inside as the external actions of competitors and market change. Leaders are responsible for establishing a positive, motivational and productive work environment and the entire organisation tends to suffer when they exhibit demeaning and damaging behaviour towards their employees. […]

#abusive supervision #defensive silence #employee input #employee silence #employee voice #fear #ineffectual silence #self-confidence #self-efficacy #toxic leadership #work psychology

Conspiracy Theories: Research On Why People Believe Them

Over the past few years, the prevalence of conspiracy theories has spun out of control thanks to the ease of sharing false information through social media and efforts from several quarters to promote anti-intellectualism. Conspiracy Theories Conspiracy theories are speculation and explanatory beliefs of events or systems whereby multiple actors are assumed to secretly conspire […]

#anxiety #boredom #conspiracy theory #COVID-19 #critical thinking #emotional intensity #entertainment value #psychological benefits #sensation-making #uncertainty #uncontrollability #work psychology

Developing effective implicit or unconscious bias interventions – New study

By its very nature, implicit or unconscious bias is a problem that influences the decision-making, behaviour, attitudes, thinking and communication of most people without their knowledge and in spite of their desire to be more objective. …implicit or unconscious bias is a problem that influences the decision-making, behaviour, attitudes, thinking and communication of most people […]

#bias #bias recognition #implicit bias #learning #unconscious bias #work psychology

Does the Emotional Freedom Technique actually do anything? A new study

One of the more controversial emotion regulation techniques to appear over the last 10 years is the Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT. The basis of EFT, or ‘tapping’ as it often known, is a mixture of cognitive therapy and somatic or sensory stimulation and involves fingertip pressure and tapping on several ‘acupressure’ points on the […]

#EFT #emotion regulation #Emotional Freedom Technique #Stress #tapping #work psychology

in Blog , Podcasts , Work psychology by David Wilkinson
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The Big Problem with Using Personality Instruments for Giving Feedback

Using Personality Instruments for Work-Related Feedback Personality instruments, indicators or tests are used in many organisations and by coaches and consultants around the world for giving feedback to employees and executives about work-related performance and for developmental purposes. The idea appears simple. Understanding your personality can give you insights into your performance and how you […]

#employee performance #Feedback #personality indicators #Personality instruments #personality tests #work psychology

in Blog , Work psychology by David Wilkinson

Filled up the swear jar at work? Is swearing at work actually good for you?

Swearing at work – good or bad? Do you have days where you appear to be filling up the swear jar faster than anyone else at work? Many of us let loose now and then when things go wrong, or we get frustrated or someone upsets us. But can swearing at work be good for […]

#swearing at work #work psychology

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Why obedience and loyalty could be the downfall of your organisation: New study …

Obedience and loyalty could be your organisations downfall… Toshiba was at one time one of the giants of Japan’s economy, with net sales of USD $63 billion and over 200,000 employees worldwide. However things were not as they appeared. In 2015 it was discovered that there was USD 4.1 billion of inflated profits over […]

#Leadership #loyalty #obedience #obedience and loyalty #organisational commitment #organisational development #work psychology