Anne Marie’s Musings and Wonderings, full of thoughts, questions, ideas to help readers reflect and develop new skills
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Looking to our brains, for a change, research from neuroscience reveals the simple secrets on how to be motivated and to foster an environment where motivation can thrive. At the very heart of motivation is our human instinct to avoid pain/threat and seek out reward/pleasure and David Rock’s SCARF model is
From studies in neuroscience, scientists have learned that human beings are wired to seek reward/pleasure and avoid threat/pain. Analysis of brain patterns have shown that when we are physically threatened or in physical pain, the same parts of the brain are affected as when we feel a social threat
Some years ago I did the StrengthsFinder test and found out that one of my strengths is Positivity. I always knew that I had this strength, it comes with an ebullient personality: finding the positive in situations and with people, appreciating the good and focusing on strengths while overlooking any weaknesses, seeking
I was listening to a very interesting and absorbing interview this morning on RTE Radio I with Martin McGuinness. Now, before I go any further, I am not a member of any political party, nor do I want to be. I am a quiet voter who normally votes for individuals
Much research into the reasons why people leave their jobs tends to point either directly to the relationship with their boss or to some aspect of the relationship with the organisation for which the immediate manager has responsibility (See Gallup). People don’t leave when they are: valued for making a contribution; respected for knowledge
Performance management is founded on the concept that we need to look back at the previous year and see what we could have done better and set goals to address this in the following year’s plan. After all my years (and we are talking many, many years) of both participating
Just last week I had the honour of delivering a short personal development workshop to a group of amazing people: 6 wonderful nurses who had just completed their Higher Diploma in Palliative Care with UCC/ Marymount. It was a privilege to be in the company of people who give of
When I first started working in a scientific manufacturing environment I took offence when people did not salute me when I passed them on the pathway between buildings; I got hurt when my manager told me I was too challenging or when he told me that I always interrupted him