Barbara McCarthy

TOPIC: Business
TITLE: Employee Motivation/Matching People to Work

“Measuring and selecting an engaged candidate is like hiring the caterpillar who turns into a butterfly – not the moth who eats away the fabric of your organization.” – Doug Reynolds, VP, Assessment Technology.

The success of a business depends on recruiting intelligently and supporting employees in their work, in order to grow and retain valuable people. Knowing when to add staff – and how to match them to the right tasks –ensures positive outcomes for both the employee and, ultimately, the business owner!

Employees know they will be paid for their work, but they need more than money if they are to be enthusiastic workers and remain loyal to your business. They need to learn how to communicate their motivations to their co-workers…they need to participate in the process of earning respect and appreciation from their supervisors and peers…and they need to be given opportunities to learn more and grow in the role that they have.

Areas to be covered in Roundtable Discussion:

• Knowing how to match prospective employees to open positions (Identifying new hires, contract personnel, candidates for promotion)
• Importance of really “seeing” your employees
• Methods for identifying positive motivations
  • Conversation
  • Assessment (MAPP™/360º)
  • Other
• Identifying Personal Traits critical to any discussion of positive motivations
• Managing motivations and aversions (recognizing that skill/motivation don’t always jive!)
• Understanding how to train most effectively by recognizing motivations

Bio:

A Certified Consultant for MAPP™ (Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential) since 1996, Barbara McCarthy has effectively utilized the MAPP assessment process with hundreds of individuals, providing coaching to validate important life choices, as well as to choose and/or change careers. She has partnered with companies of all sizes to provide consulting, resources, and support for facilitating appropriate job matching, career and succession planning, and to ensure successful team building, optimal employee development, and customized training.

An engaging and effective public speaker and facilitator of workshops, Barbara’s work in the area of Training and Development focuses on the importance of motivation for personal and professional growth. She helps people hold up a mirror to themselves – she works with them to discover their true potential and to convert their passions into achievable goals and accomplishments.

Barbara also provides Coach-the-Coaches support to help professionals new to MAPP take the assessment to the next level with their own clients. To this end, she has designed and facilitated Train-the-Trainer workshops in both the US and Canada. Some of the companies Barbara has consulted with are Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, John Laing Homes, JR Associates, DBM & Right Management, Questar and Manitoba Public Insurance.

Barbara earned a BA and a California teaching credential from UCLA and completed graduate courses in Instructional Design at USC.