Trevor Hill

How Is Employee Recognition A Fast Way To Boost Team Motivation?

You can create a major motivating influence when you show individual employee recognition. Check this against your own experience - how motivating is it for you when someone acknowledges and appreciates your efforts? Most people welcome attention that... Read >

How To Boost Employee Motivation With Better Leadership

It is an astonishing fact - repeatedly shown in numerous surveys - that two-thirds of the workforce are not engaged in their work. Imagine the magnitude of lost productivity and innovation this represents! It also lies at the heart of much workplace strif... Read >

How To Motivate The Employees With A Sense Of Purpose

There is nothing like a worthwhile purpose to unite and motivate a group of workers. You can see this clearly in the voluntary sector. This is where people are motivated by 'the cause'. You can use the same basic principle to motivate the employees in you... Read >

10 Tips To Motivate The Staff Using Recognition

Some of the most motivational techniques you can use are actually quite simple. Giving recognition is one of these. Which makes it all the more curious that many managers and leaders miss it when they want to motivate the staff. When you think back ove... Read >

Aiming For Success? - How To Keep On Track

Sometimes it is essential to take stock - in fact our success depends on it. Here's a recent experience of mine that shows why. I had arranged a short break in the country. I drove the car and my friend read the map. Before each leg of the journey we w... Read >

How To Inspire Your Team - 5 Reasons To Start With Yourself

Inspiration is powerful stuff. Inspired people are fully energised and clearly focused, which means they are strongly motivated and engaged in the action they take. These are prized qualities in the workplace - a manager's dream! - yet inspired colleagues... Read >

Are You Stuck? - How To Escape From Circular Thinking

Do you ever get so caught up in thinking that you can't make real progress? Whichever way you turn, there seem to be obstacles and, in the end, thinking leads back to where you started. It reminds me of a visit to London where I travelled on the Circle... Read >

How To Escape From Boredom And Renew Your Energy

Boredom is a curse. It starts when you have no interest in what you are doing or supposed to be doing. The early signs are day-dreaming and procrastination and it can quickly lead to frustration and despair. Boredom numbs the mind and exhausts the body; u... Read >

Inspiration Gold Mine! - How To Use The Positive Side Of Change

When we're looking for inspiration, we can search high and low and yet easily overlook what is already nearby. Change is all around us and often presented as a problem to overcome or a challenge to be tackled. Yet within change there is a fantastic opport... Read >

How To Overcome Barriers To A Brighter Future

What do you believe is really possible to achieve in the months ahead? I ask myself the same question. The reason is that it's too easy to set self-imposed limits without realising it. The universal way we do this is with labels. If you have ever tried... Read >

How To Run Your Own Life - Don't Let Others Do It For You

It can make you really mad! One day you wake up and realise that your life is being shaped entirely by other people. Almost everything you do is decided for you while your needs, goals and dreams are right at the back of the queue. Actually, don't get ... Read >

Creating the Life You Want - Is Commitment Friend Or Foe?

From a young age, we learn to be wary of commitment. After all, it can lead to all manner of unwelcome obligations. How else did we get stuck with playing a boring game or with the torment of being polite to an unwelcome visitor? When we leave childhoo... Read >

Do You Have Hidden Talent? - How You Can Make It Visible

Have you ever fantasised about having an invisibility cloak? Then you could wrap yourself, Harry Potter style, and sneak unseen into privileged places. What secrets you could discover! Of course you would want to take the cloak off sometimes - when you... Read >

Be Inspired - Surprise Yourself With Fresh Perspectives

Can you remember a day when you noticed something for the first time that was actually there all along? Many people have this experience. It demonstrates the ability to create fresh perspectives of the familiar world. So when we want to be creative and in... Read >

Be An Inspiring Speaker - Ten Essential Tips To Wow Your Audience

Whatever the context, when we speak to a group of people it is tempting to devote too much attention to what we say and not enough to how we do it. If you want to be inspiring, here are some essential points: 1. Be yourself - you don't need to imitate ... Read >