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Gerald Payton

Perfect Way to Boost Employees' Self-Esteem - 1 views

I have been working with David Ferrier for two months now and with his expertise, he was able to help me boost the confidence of my team. He was great because he actively motivated my staff to exce...

started by Gerald Payton on 10 Oct 12 no follow-up yet
Gerald Payton

Best Speaker in Australia - 1 views

started by Gerald Payton on 11 Dec 12 no follow-up yet
Gary Patton

Does SMART Goal Setting Really Work? - 0 views

thin-edge-of-the-wedge.com/...smart-goal-setting

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shared by Gary Patton on 19 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Does SMART Goal Setting Work? (1)
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 19 Feb 12
       
      This is a helpful Blog series on the generic SMART Goal Setting approach. gfp (2012-02-18)
  • Gary Patton on 19 Feb 12
     
    This is a helpful Blog serieson the generic SMART Goal Setting approach.
Gary Patton

Call People By Their Name for Value-Added Names - Brain Leaders and Learners - 1 views

www.brainleadersandlearners.com/...-value-added-with-name-calling

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shared by Gary Patton on 01 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Expect Value Added in Names
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 03 Apr 12
       
      According to brain researcher, Ellen Weber, neuroscience has proven the power of using people's names. Speak people's names when in their presence, and research confirms you also spark their brain's sense of worth, add value to their day and motivate them when you use their name to encourage them. gfp (2012-04-01)
  • Your handle’s a brand of sorts – one that defines you, and the brain associates certain unique traits with your name.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 19 Apr 12
       
      This is a profound and also scary thought in the context of TV and other advertising.
  • pack a punch when comments link to names.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 03 Apr 12
       
      You also stand out from the crowd when you use other's name in converstaion because so few do it. Doing so has particular power when you're encouraging the named person for a job well done or other commendable act because of it's motivational value.
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  • It’s not easy to remember names, since brains are more equipped to forget a name than to remember one. How so?
  • To hear your name spoken respectfully, is to spike wellbeing in the area of the brain that operates personal self-awareness.
David Sydney

You Rock Dave! - 2 views

Your talk was very inspiring. Our group is made up of highly accomplished managers with years of experience directing the activities of major companies both here in Australia and overseas. They are...

started by David Sydney on 04 Oct 12 no follow-up yet
Gary Patton

Motivational Interviewing - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 11 Apr 12 - No Cached
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    Interaction techniques
Gary Patton

"Stop Working More Than 40 Hours a Week" and making staff do it! : Lessons from Sheryl ... - 0 views

www.inc.com/...more-than-40-hours-a-week.html

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shared by Gary Patton on 26 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Stop Working More Than 40 Hours a Week
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 03 May 12
       
      Much research clearly seems to proves the advice in this article and Sheryl Sandberg's family-oriented practise is wise. I suggest you stop if you also are requiring your staff to do it too! As a "recovering Type 'A' workaholic", I speak from experience because I couldn't work, at all, for over 5 years after the dis-stress on my body, mind, emotions, will, and spirit caused a life-threatening event in my life in 1995. gfp (2012-05-03)
  • Gary Patton on 26 Apr 12
     
    "There's a century of research establishing the undeniable fact that working more than 40 hours per week actually decreases productivity." gfp (2012-04-26)
Gary Patton

Management Secrets: Core Beliefs of Great Bosses | Inc.com - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 26 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Gary Patton on 26 Apr 12
     
    "The best managers have a fundamentally different understanding of workplace, company, and team dynamics. See what they get right."
Gary Patton

Seth's Blog: Don't expect applause - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 26 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Don't expect applause
  • you have sold yourself short
  • Gary Patton on 26 Apr 12
     
    When you expect applause, when you do your work in order (and because of) applause, you have sold yourself short. gfp (2012-04-26)
Gary Patton

Why Teamwork is Overrated - PsyBlog - 0 views

www.spring.org.uk/...why-teamwork-is-overrated.php

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shared by Gary Patton on 29 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • The message from the research is clear: the benefits of teamwork are nowhere near as clear as the fashion would suggest. Worse, sometimes the arbitrary implementation of teams reduces organisational performance.
  • Gary Patton on 29 Mar 12
     
    The message from the research is clear: the benefits of teamwork are nowhere near as clear as the fashion would suggest. Worse, sometimes the arbitrary implementation of teams reduces organisational performance. And there's even more reasons to question the appropriateness and ubiquitous advice in favour of plus use of teams!
Gary Patton

It's not Islamophobia to call a jihadist, a jihadist - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 31 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • There is no doubt that such prejudice exists. But there is no doubt, too, that cries of “Islamophobia” are issued to suffocate argument, to deflect or deter analysis of some behaviour that is factually related to Islam. There is no doubt either that some Muslims have acted as terrorists, either singly, or in association with various Islamist groups. To point this out is not a phobia, but a simple respect for reality.
  • It’s not Islamophobia to call a jihadist, a jihadist
  • there also have been calls suggesting that any reference to the Islamist terrorist connections of the killer would be a species of Islamophobia. This is pure nonsense and folly.
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  • It is not Islamophobic to note the motives and background of the murderer. In fact, it is a form of cowardice and evasion not to do so.
  • If one decries Islamophobia, then one must condemn bin Laden as its Nile source. Bin Laden, more than any other person, has besmirched the practice and understanding of Islam and engendered suspicion of some of its adherents.
  • Horrors perpetrated in the name of fundamentalist Islam, such as attacks on young girls going to school, the internecine slaughters of various sects, the cruel penalties exacted by the Taliban’s repressive creed — stonings, amputations and executions for apostasy — also feed the angry atmosphere, and they are not phantoms of a prejudiced imagination.
  • Bin Laden’s declared purpose, his “war” on the West, and his overt linkage of his cause with a fundamentalist version of Islam, are the primary drivers of our non-phobic — which is to say, very rational — fear of, and hostility to, manifestations of Islamic fanaticism.
  • in Madrid, London or Bali — it was not Islamophobia when some immediately assumed these were al Qaeda, or Islamist-inspired. It was just a natural first response, the acknowledgement of a pattern. In most cases, that first response proved correct.
  • The too-energetic effort to fall outside the shadow of prejudice has served to distort the response of investigators. Looking for everybody else except the most “likely” suspects first, wastes time and resources.
  • Our most urgently served impulse should be to make common cause with the victims of violence — in this case, Jews
  • Gary Patton on 31 Mar 12
     
    Rex Murphy feels, and I agree that "...there is no doubt that [anti-Muslim] prejudice exists. But there is no doubt, too, that cries of "Islamophobia" are issued to suffocate argument, to deflect or deter analysis of some behaviour that is factually related to Islam." he states further and I also agree that: " There is no doubt either that some Muslims have acted as terrorists, either singly, or in association with various Islamist groups. To point this out is not a phobia, but a simple respect for reality." gfp (2012-03-12)
Gary Patton

Embrace Your Irrational Colleagues - Ron Ashkenas - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • There is just something going on that we don't realize.
  • But the reality is that the nurse was doing what she thought best, which made her appear irrational to others. Once the underlying history and motivation was revealed, her behavior made sense.
  • Irrational behavior is part of the human condition.
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  • At some level, conscious or unconscious, each of us has a compelling reason — such as short-term gratification, peer acceptance, convenience, lifestyle, and many more — for doing the "wrong" thing.
  • "There is NO SUCH THING as irrational behaviour".
  • Everyone is strangeSave me and youAnd sometimes I thinkYou strange too
  • Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
     
    Do you argue with your colleagues, friends, neighbours ...and especially partners and other relatives... when they behave irrationally? If you're like me you do because I'm a "Recovering Type 'A' Controlling Personality"! :-) However regardless of your personality type, you are wise not to argue with seemingly irrational people because "Irrationality Isn't Always Stupidity"! gfp (2011-11-23)
  • Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
     
    Discover in this short article why arguing with an irrational is really dumb as well as a better way to relate to them! GaryFPatton
Gary Patton

Generation Y: The New Kind of Workforce - 0 views

thenextweb.com/...on-y-the-new-kind-of-workforce

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shared by Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Fifty percent of world population is under 30 years old.
  • They are digital natives
  • It seems that money isn’t one of the primary motivators for this generation.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      Given the context of immutable human nature, I'm NOT buying this one. But, I'll stand to be corrected as more Gen Ys grow to maturity and more responsibilities in our cruel, hard world of student loans in the context of family commitments.
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  • Generation Y: The New Kind of Workforce
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      If you're just entering the work force or applying for a new job, don't make the terrible mistake of 64% of college students who ask about their prospective empoyer's social media usage policies in the middle of their job interviews. Approximately 24% also foolishly say it would be a key factor in accepting the offer. If you want to use social media when you're supposed to be working, unless you're being hired to make business posts for you're empoyer, set up your own company because the business world is NOT going to accomodate your preferences on their dime!
  • Cisco recently published its Connected World Report, the results of which are quite shocking.
  • Out of 2,800 college students and young professionals under the age of 30 and hailing from 14 countries, approximately one in three said he/she would prioritize social media freedom, device flexibility and work mobility over salary in accepting a job offer.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      Please note, I'm using red to highligt these statements because of the total lack of wisdom in these behaviours, in my opinion! And I'm the first to admit that I'm an ole guy! But, 45 years of business and industry experince as a consultant has got to warn you ...a little, at least, that I may be correct. gfp
  • 64% of college students asks about social media usage policies during job interviews
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      If you want to use social media when you're supposed to be working, unless you're being hired to make business posts for you're empoyer, set up your own company because the business world is NOT going to accomodate your preferences on their dime!
  • approximately 24% says it would be a key factor in accepting the offer.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      This is an incredible comment on the lack of wisdom and the sense of entitlement that too many parents of GenY's have inculcated in them, in my opinion. In 2012's and future difficult job markets where few will have the kinds of fulltime jobs prior generations had, this is unbelievably unwise.
  • A Generation Y and Facebook study done by Millennial Branding and Identified shows that Gen-Yers are using their personal networks and profiles as an extension of their professional personality. Even though they are using Facebook to mostly socialize with family and friends, they are inadvertently blending the two.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      And when you're asked to prove the value-added you are bringing to your organization by this currently ozymoronic blend, you'll be OK ONLY have you have solid, verifiable proof that you're adding value. Otherwise, you'll probably be fired! The market's full of others who will do it the way most CEOs still want it done ...without attitude or compalining. You can change your organization's culture when you are rewarded, for your value-adding in the way your boss wants it done, by being promoted to senior management. In the meantime: "Do it their way!" ...not Frank Sinatra's recommended "my way"!
  • They are job hopping multiple times in their careers.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      What's the big deal here! It's only members of GenAncient and too many empoyeees in bureaucracies and unions who stayed with one or two organizations thoughout their working life. I started work after University in 1966 and have changed career directions about 10 times even after setting up my own company in 1984 ...when many GenY's weren't even born!
  • If large corporations want to remain competitive, they need to aggressively recruit Gen-Y workers
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      And if GenYs are S-M-A-R-T, they'll resist any allures to get into big business. Set up your own company and retain a measure of freedom. "Rich Dad" in Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad; Poor Dad" wass right on with his advice to students now and in the forseeable future. And if you don't know what that advice was, your in trouble in the 21st Century economy that I foresee.
  • These studies show that if companies want to retain young talent, they need to display trust in their young workforce and allow Gen-Yers to operate entrepreneurially within the corporation by giving them control over their time and activities.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      While I agree this is accurate for many young people who control their attitude and sense of entitlement, most senior managements don't buy this and they currently run the business world. So get over it for now if you want a job-job! Your best route however is: "Set up your own shop ASAP ..or get with the program!!" ~ gfp '42™
  • social network usage is more of a lifestyle to young employees than a distraction.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      And every boss that reads this line is saying: "So what?"
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