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Daiv Russell's Articles in Motivation

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  • Workplace Motivation Technique: Break the Golden Rule
    It appears very simple, right? "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." The Golden Rule appears so undisputed that it could be a cure-all for every relationship. Simply act toward everyone the same way you would prefer to be taken care of and everything will flow smoothly, yes?
  • Does Eating Well Mean Learning Well?
    The Theory of Hierarchical Needs as developed by Abraham Maslow was first published in a journal article in 1943. Since that time, the concept has been expanded, revised, and utilized to describe and develop theories about the best ways to motivate individuals regarding a wide variety of subjects, including that of education.
  • Capturing Markets with Maslow
    Marketing has never been identified as something that is crucial to the well-being of humanity, and your product probably isn't either. But your product should be positioned so that is relates to something essential, like safety or shelter. Identifying this position make it simpler to reach your target audience.
  • Internet Marketing for Your Brand New Site… Playing in Google’s Sandbox
    Do you run one of the 175,000 of companies that recently created a website that receives no patrons? One of the biggest misconceptions about online marketing is that simply setting up a website will bring you visitors who become customers - but that just doesn't seem to happen. Too many believe in what I call "Field of Dreams" web marketing, thinking "If you build it, they will come."
  • Internet Marketing Articles - Keys to Writing Headlines
    All the web marketing consultants concur on this – One of the big keys to successful web marketing is through the use of articles. You understand you must capitalize on the potential of web marketing using articles, but how important is the headline? What's the most effective way to write headlines to stand above the rest?
  • Can Maslow's Theory Help With Hiring?
    The Maslow Hierarchy of Needs focuses on the business community more than any other facet of life. Conflicts are often prevalent in the business world because the people involved are typically in varying stages of life. The dichotomy between the lives of the entry-level employee (just starting out in life) and the middle manager (who may be more settled) can effect these conflicts.
  • Transactional Leadership - Are Your People Motivated?
    People are motivated through reward as well as reprimand. This was one such result of the Abraham Maslow theory. Group systems operate best through an unambiguous hierarchy. As soon as individuals have arranged to do a task, One aspect of the arrangement is that they give up complete authority to their boss. The main function of a underling is to do what their boss tells them to do.
  • Get More Bang for Your Marketing Buck Through Wallet-Mailers
    In a number of ways, it may be rougher to run a small business than a massive one. You stand facing the difficulties created through technical advances along with fierce competition to retain your important existing clients. Your company requires something that will make it be prominent. A robust promotion effort will shield your customers from deserting your business to visit other organizations.
  • What is a Project Manager?
    A project manager, quite simply defined, is an individual who is responsible for the entire project. He or she is not responsible for completing every task. Indeed, it is unlikely that the manager would even have every skill needed to complete all the work. He or she is simply the final decision maker. This person will usually be considered responsible for the success or failure of a project, unless other reasons for the outcome are blatantly obvious.
  • Team Building and Collaboration: Keys to Success in Modern Business
    The Industrial Revolution significantly changed the business world. Modern workers have become more specialized, found themselves to be more isolated, and work more impersonally than before. Despite the fact that technology has dramatically increased productivity, long-term business success still requires effective human interaction and collaboration.
  • Team Building Activities for Education and Business
    Team building activities come in many different varieties. The activities themselves may differ, but the end goal of each is fostering a sense of team among group members to help them harmonize with one another and work together. Most team building events are exciting and challenging, necessitating people to work in groups to achieve a common goal.
  • Will Magnetic Vehicle Signs Help or Hurt my Lawncare Service?
    If you run a lawn care business, you're always in the market for new business. Even the most delighted clients still move, change jobs, and disappear for all sorts of reasons. You must consistently bring on new customers to replace those you lose - even when you're the best lawn care there is. You have to do more than just provide a great service -- you have to find a means for prospects to understand that you run a great lawn care service and how to contact you. Will magnetic vehicle signs assist or injure?
  • How to Motivate Your Employees
    Abraham Maslow devised a Hierarchy of needs and came up with five different levels namely: Physiological, Safety, Love and Belonging, Esteem, and Self Actualization. And he according to him, all of the lower levels must be attained in order to experience the higher levels. By formulating these different categories he was able to relate it with human's basic concerns and desires. But his primary focus was on the most intellectual people at his time to base his research.
  • Matrix Organizational Structure: Optimize Cross-Departmental Relationships
    Prior to 1970, big organizations were usually arranged in a "silo" formation. In this organizational scheme, line or functional managers were held accountable for different divisions of workers in the company. Since those times, businesses have tried to revamp their organizational structures into something that works better. The result is called a matrix organization.
  • 5 Tips to Jump From Partial Quality Management to Total Quality Management
    Establishing "Total Quality Management" in the workplace is not as easy as some assume. The idea implies action as well as quantifiable improvements in quality and service. But some implementations turn out to be entirely ineffective. One study conducted by Canada's Conference Board revealed that about 70% of North American companies experimenting with TQM fail even to show a useful "total quality strategy." However, TQM is not some passing fad; many companies which could benefit have yet to give the plan a real trial. Some proponents of TQM may only be making half-hearted efforts or doing what could best be described as PQM, or "Partial Quality Management."
  • History of Project Management: How Did We Get Here?
    Project Management, as we know it, began to gain ground around the beginning of the 1960s. At this time industrial and business organizations were starting to recognize there were benefits associated with arranging work into separate projects. In doing this, work could be done by multiple departments, working as a cohesive whole. It was this realization that led to project management gaining widespread acceptance.
  • Get Heard with Conference Call Etiquette
    Have you ever attended a teleconference call where there was background noise which made it difficult to enjoy the call? Have you been on a call where participants are talking over each other or someone is speaking and you have no idea what their name is? Maybe you could never contribute because every time the facilitator asked a question, there were one or two people who always jumped in and didn't stop talking, and the facilitator didn't have control of the situation.
  • Secrets to Motivating a Sales Team
    The biggest challenge facing Sales Managers today motivating and retaining employees. Motivated employees are needed in rapidly changing workplaces. Motivated sales teams help organizations survive simply because they are more productive. Motivation is an organization's life-blood; yet "motivation," as a business subject, is largely ignored. Seldom is a clear, coherent, and overall approach taken to the challenge of motivating people. Most organizations don't give it much thought until something starts to go wrong.
  • Marketing with Maslow: Understanding the Needs of Your Market
    There was no way in 1943 that Abraham H. Maslow could have predicted that his Hierarchy of Needs would be so influential. It was considered to be one of the more influential theories in the study of human behavior and remained influential into the following century as well.
  • Gantt Bar Charts: Your Guide to Better Project Management
    The meaning of project management is working within defined constraints to organize and manage resources (people, for example) to complete the project within those constraints, whether those resources are scope, quality, time, cost, or all of the above. The kinds of tasks to be managed could include constructing a restaurant or implementing a new medical system.
  • Strategies for Success: Offsite Team Building
    "We don't work together as a team!" complained Janet, a group manager for a large insurance company, to Larry, her human resources consultant. "Everyone just seems to do their own thing, they don't share information, don't try to help each other, and just don't seem to care about anyone else's problems. What we need is a team building offsite!" Janet and Larry decided to put together a two-day offsite for the team at a resort about two hours away from work. Janet wanted immediate focus on the problem so Larry worked double-time to put together the event to be held later in the month. Larry put together an agenda full of trust-building exercises, ice-breakers, and brainstorming sessions on how the team could work better together.
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