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- Weight Loss Motivation (exe)
- An effective weight loss motivation audio tool which guides users through a simple, yet powerful exercise for developing and increasing motivation to lose weight. This tool can be used by anyone to help instantly connect a feeling of motivation to the process of releasing weight. It teaches a powerful NLP...
- Tags: Motivation, Weight Loss Motivation, Leadership, Productivity, Management
- Software downloads 2008-04-18
- Faculty Pedagogical Approach, Skill, and Motivation in Today's Distance Education Milieu
- This paper explores the pedagogical approach, skill and motivation factors that influence or are influenced by distance education instructors. Advancing distance education in today's technology-driven milieu requires a different pedagogical approach whereby distance education students acquire knowledge. While distance education students want unconstrained access to learning regardless of time and...
- Tags: Distance Education, Motivation, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers
- Student Motivation for Learning at a Distance: Does Interaction Matter?
- The study presented in this paper evaluated a distance education program offered by a land-grant university agricultural college. The study used Holmberg's and Moore's theoretical frameworks of didactic conversation and multiple interactions to determine the importance of interaction on the efficacy of distance learning. The mixed methods approach used an...
- Tags: Interaction, University Of West Georgia, Motivation, E-learning, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- White papers
- Motivation and Incentives for Distance Faculty
- At the millennium, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges estimated that one-third of all colleges and universities would be closing within ten years. Peter Drucker, a management theorist, recently predicted that higher education institutions as one knows them today, will be relics in a matter of a...
- Tags: Distance Education, Incentive, University Of West Georgia, Motivation, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers
- The Meanings and Motivations of Open-Source Communities
- At the heart of Phipps's analysis is a process of decentralization that is affecting the lives of people across the globe. With the advent of the web and broadband, and with large-scale participation on networks, information can flow freely anywhere, any time, and from any direction. The Information Age is...
- Tags: Software, Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open-source Community, Motivation, Information Age, Tools & Techniques, Government, Management
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Changing the Game: 4 Ways to Unlock Your Employees' Performance Potential
- More and more, small- and mid-sized businesses have discovered that strategic HR is the key to ensuring their company reaches its full potential in performance, productivity -- and profits. Now it's your turn: download this exclusive eGuide to discover 4 proven ways you can tap into...
- Tags: Game, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Performance Management, SuccessFactors Inc., Performance, job, midsize business, motivation
- White papers 2007-11-01
- People Performance: Can You Believe What You See?
- When we are observing the behavior and performance of our people can we really believe what we see?In 1927, the theoretical physicist Werner Karl Heisenberg developed the uncertainty principle. The uncertainty principle states that, at a microscopic level, it is impossible to know both the momentum and position of a...
- Tags: motivation, micro-management, IT Management, Decision Making, Management Style, Management Skills, Management, CIO, Leadership, Career, Personnel
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Do you still have a "twinkle" in your eye for cool technology?
- A colleague of mine made a comment yesterday that I have heard a number of times from long-time IT veterans who have become CIOs. The comment was, "I've been in this business too long to be impressed by technology." I started thinking about what this meant about someone who is...
- Tags: motivation, Leadership
- Blog posts 2007-07-22
- Personal Motivation Calendar (zip)
- Personal Motivation Calendar is simple and easy-to-use software. It helps to monitor your life flow with an uncompromising your-life-only calendar and a helpful 100-hour clock. It provides an effective approach to organizing tasks and setting priorities with a classical four-quadrant technique. It helps you to act by providing a special...
- Tags: Motivation, Personal Motivation Calendar, Leadership, Management
- Software downloads 2007-02-15
- A Free Motivation to Succeed Hypnosis Session (exe)
- This hypnosis program runs a 6 minute session which should program your subconscious mind with positive messages about you and your Motivation to Succeed. So many people feel they lack the self belief and that they CAN achieve, and at the same time enjoy the Motivation to Succeed. Today is...
- Tags: Motivation, Leadership, Management
- Software downloads 2006-12-15
- Political Infighting – what a great thing!
- Many companies bemoan the fact that they have so much infighting. Often they'll bring in a management consultant or a leadership coach to "fix the problem". They'll ask us the equivalent of, "Why can't we all just get along?"  I usually surprise folks with this opinion – sometimes this kind of infighting...
- Tags: Practices, Power, Politics, Personnel, motivation, Management Style, Management, Leadership, Knowledge Retention, Job Roles, HR, Executive, Empowerment, Delegation, Decision Making, Change Management, Career, Business Intelligence, Blogroll
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Are you ready for the praise-craving next generation?
- Some Earlier WorksFor some earlier works describing how praise and punishment can destroy internal motivation see, "Punished by Rewards" by Alfie Kohn, and "Out of the Crisis" and the "New Economics" by W. Edwards Deming.The concept is that the internal motivation of a job well done becomes replaced with the...
- Tags: Richard_RPU, praise, motivation, job
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
- "Harmless" management decisions are often disincentives
- Today’s message is about people, or perhaps I should say, a reminder that the employees that work for you are living, breathing, human beings with thoughts, feelings, lives, and problems. They are not machines. Often, you will see management defined as planning, organizing, commanding, controlling, coordinating, and communicating. While technically...
- Tags: motivation, General, Decision Making
- Blog posts 2007-04-15
- The Market Opportunity for Hard Disk Drives in Mobile and Handheld Devices
- 2005 was another boom year for mobile devices. Global shipments of mobile phone handsets topped 800 million units, a 17% year-over-year growth based on Parks Associates' estimates. In addition, 3G finally became a global phenomenon in 2005, with a spurt of new subscriber addition in Western Europe and North America....
- Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Mobile, Handheld, Handheld Device, Motivation, Parks Associates, Advertising & Promotion, 3G, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2006-03-13
- Quote of the Day -- 5/24/2005
- "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."-- Jim Ryuh by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Habit, Motivation, Leadership, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2005-05-24
- Interesting medical research
- An area in the brain that predicts selfishness or altruism. From Duke University: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6278907.stmJust out of curiosity, how many of you see giving back to the greater society as a part of your motivation for the work you do?
- Tags: career, medical research, motivation, NickNielsen, off-topic
- Discussion threads 2007-01-21
- Whats your Motivation phrase?
- Ok, have you ever wondered if you should do something but was not sure if you should? Ie, Try for a new job, take on new challenges, move to a different geographical location to start over, go to the top dog and in pure diplomatic terms say what...
- Tags: career, catch phrase, droolin, glory, motification, motivation, off-topic
- Discussion threads 2007-01-18
- Use this framework to manage expectations on your project
- When expectations are not managed well, even a project that comes in on time and on budget might be seen as less than successful. Managing the expectations is important on all projects. It's the major purpose of your status report, but managing expectations requires more than just...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, agreement, Project Management Newsletter, Expectation, Motivation
- Technical articles 2006-04-17
- Why Employees Develop Low Morale & Are Managers To Blame?
- I am presently helping several managers with low morale problems. This issue is so common that I have decided to try to gain wider understanding of it. So here goes.Everyone knows that the sports team with the highest morale wins. In fact, every
- Tags: bsnsimo, morale
- Discussion threads 2006-12-30
- Why HP People Do and Don't Use Videoconferencing Systems
- This paper discusses the findings of a Web-based questionnaire aimed at discovering both patterns of use of videoconferencing systems within HP and the reasons people give for either not using, or for using such systems. The primary motivation is to understand these issues for the purpose of designing new kinds...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Motivation, Leadership, Channel Management, Management, Marketing
- White papers 2005-02-04
