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The Progress Principle

Here are articles discussing Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer's study on motivation at work, The Progress Principle.

It turns out that 95% of managers are wrong about what motivates people at work. It's not financial incentive or stress--rather, the most powerful motivator at work is the sense that you're making progress towards a meaningful goal.

How To Get Ahead At Work: The Best of the Internet

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Cute CatHappy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week! 

What Goldilocks can teach you about work engagement.

Learn about career paths and the world of work from our Q&A with writer Jessica Stillman, a non-pod person who’s on the beat.

Why is the end of “Results Only” at Best Buy bad news?

Feeling power is a key ingredient to intrinsic motivation.

Are you doing these 5 things to get ahead at work?

How to negotiate a salary that you deserve.

Dundee’s Tip of the Week:  Did you know that you can reply to our reminder email as many times as you like? Every reply will add dones to the bottom of your list for that day. Stack ‘em up!

Taking Risks Through Doubt

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Strangely enough, doubt need not impede action. If you really become friends with your doubt, you can go ahead and take risks, knowing you will be questioning yourself at every turn, no matter what. It is part of living, a healthy evolutionary adaptation, I would imagine. The mistake is in trying to tune out your doubts. Accept them as a necessary (or at least unavoidable) soundtrack.

Philip Lopate, in the NYT’s Opinionator blog’s “The Essay, an Exercise in Doubt”.

Collaboration and Communication: The Best of the Internet

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Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week!

We shared our 7 favorite collaboration and communication tools — perfect for adding to any company toolbox, whether your workers are remote or office-assembled.

Find out how C2I Intel uses iDoneThis with distributed and overseas teams to deliver business intelligence.

When you work like ants and get the right amount of communication, at the right time, there are fewer meetings, more productivity, and higher efficiency!

How Daniel Pink gets stuff — including regular writing — done!

How temperature and lighting affects your productivity. Unless you’re a vampire.

Help others in order to find your purpose and motivation.

imageDundee’s Tip of the Week:  Hey iDT team users, hope you’ve noticed by now that you can add comments and likes to individual dones. Find out why we think the new feature will help cultivate happier performance and more progress at work.

Share More Feedback and Recognition with Individual Likes & Comments Per Done

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Many of you told us that you wanted to be able to give specific feedback on people’s dones, and we couldn’t have agreed more. So we’ve revamped the feedback system so that you can now add comments and likes to individual dones — on the web and through your email digests!

Likes and comments per done at iDoneThis

These changes may seem simple, but for us, these small improvements are significant. We had a hunch that improving the feedback system to make it more responsive and interactive would be key to increasing the engagement and fulfillment of our members with their work. Since launching the feedback per done feature on February 6, we noticed some interesting trends that indicate we’re on the right track. We thought we’d share some of those preliminary observations, based on three measurements:  number of likes over time, number of users giving likes, and number of comments over time.

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The Science of Resolutions

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Calvin and Hobbes on resolutions

While 75% of us keep our new year’s resolutions for two weeks, the chances are slim that we’ll make it further. Here are some tips drawn from two awesome posts by Eric Barker and Buffer’s Leo Widrich on the science of resolutions and how to make them stick.

1.   Break down the goal into baby steps. 

2.   Write it down, and keep track of your progress.  This keeps you accountable and motivates you to keep going.

3.   Dust yourself off and try again.  You can’t learn how to ride a bike without a couple falls. Don’t give up when you slip up!

(Source:  https://www.youtube.com/)

A Year of Good Things

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Jar

“Start on January 1st with an empty jar. Throughout the year write the good things that happened to you on little pieces of paper. On December 31st, open the jar and read all the amazing things that happened to you that year.”

Here’s a great idea from imabookshark to start off the new year. Make a Good Things Jar! Capture the positive things that happened to you and that you accomplished in your personal and work life! They’re worth remembering and acknowledging.

Of course, you can always use iDoneThis as a Good Things App — a super simple way to keep a record of and look back at all the amazingness over the year!

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