Whether you are sitting in your suitably, socially distanced office, surrounded by plastic screens and hand-sanitizer bottles or working from home, motivation is likely to affect your productivity.

Even though it is less than a year since the unimaginable became common-place – lock-down, furlough – and a deep fascination with catching the news to see what further catastrophe was about to befall our personal and business freedoms, the ease, in retrospect, with which we were able to socially interact and conduct our business affairs in an open economy seems a distant fantasy.

Usually, we are motivated by rewards. In our democratic state, we expect to have the freedom to exercise our rights to free movement, social mobility and the right to exploit economic opportunity as allowed by the law.

Many of those freedoms are now curtailed by curfew and regulation to suppress COVID infection. Consequently, motivation by reward is less attractive. 

Never-the-less, SA returns still have to be filed. Clients are still queuing for support as their precious cash reserves are exhausted. 

And yet it is the runners that keep going, to break through the wall and finish what they started; they may have been challenged to quit but kept their heads down and headed for the finish line andnhave discovered motivation is like fresh air. A necessary and welcome attribute as we all struggle to maintain effectiveness and the ability to support each other through these truly exceptional times.

Source: New feed