Margie Ireland will be taking you through how to keep the mojo in your business. She’ll provide insight into exactly what is ‘mojo’ and how it shows up at work. She will discuss the ‘mojo’ behaviours and how these impact employee engagement, success and retention and provide simple and fun strategies to get your mojo back and keep it. Check out all the insight from DEPOT[x], a business event empowered by Business Depot.

1. Learn, connect and be
empowered.

2. Margie Ireland
Connect. Inspire. Transform.
Keeping the Mojo in Your Business
@mliexecutive

3. Mojo Maintenance
Margie Ireland
Founder
C-I-T

4. • A quality that attracts people to you and makes you successful
and full of energy
Cambridge
• A power that may seem magical and that allows someone to be
very effective, successful, etc.
Meriam Webster

5. • The word originally means a charm or a spell. But now its more
commonly said meaning sex appeal or talent.
"I can get any girl if I just use a bit of the old mojo"
“Man, that girl has MOJO!"
"God help me, I think I've lost my mojo!”
Urban Dictionary

6. Who do you know
who has Mojo?

7. Mojo
• High on Purpose
• Goal/Action oriented
• Self-Belief
• Resilient
• Determined
• Influential
• Impactful
• Successful
“Psychological Empowerment”
At Work

8. What decreases PE & Mojo?
• Toxic Leadership
• Ambiguous Job Roles
• Low Self-efficacy (skills, support, resources)
• Unhealthy coping strategies
• Disconnection from Values
• Negative Self-Talk

9. 2015 Research
• 15 Australian based Male CEOs
• Self-Belief
• Work Goals
Intervention: For Negative Self-Talk

10. Negative Self- Talk
• Intrusive negative thoughts are
experienced by 80-99% of the non-
clinical population
• These are defined as a distinct
experience that is unwanted,
unintended, and recurrent.
• Negative thoughts can disrupt
performance and are difficult to
control

11. Moving Towards and Moving AwayWorksheet
5Ksenses
Anyone could see these taste, touch,
see, hear, smell3. Write down how you copewhen
you have these thoughts,feelings,
urges, and/or bodily sensations
(e.g., eat, drink, watch tv, withdraw,
argue)
Away Towards
2. Write down what gets in the wayof
acting towards this value (thoughts,
emotions, urges, bodilysensations)?
1. Write down the value you chose
here and briefly saywhy this value
matters toyou.
4.Write down some small acts you could
do that would move you towards this
value you chose. Don't forget to think
small.
Mental Experience (only we can see these)
thoughts, emotions, motivations,concerns
The Matrix from Kevin Polk and Jerold Hambright

13. Maintain Your Mojo
 Understand what your Values are at Work
 Work in environments that encourage you to work towards
these
 Develop healthy coping strategies during times of stress
 Be kind to yourself when you don’t
Focus on your Values!

14. References
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Bennett, J. B., & LehmBester, J., Stander, M. W., & Van Zyl, L. E. (2015). Leadership empowering behaviour, psychological empowerment,
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an, W. E. (2001). Workplace substance abuse prevention and help seeking: Comparing team-oriented and informational training. Journal of
Occupational Health Psychology, 6(3), 243.
Cooper, C. L., & Cartwright, S. (2001). Organizational management of stress and destructive emotions at work. Emotions at work: theory,
research and applications for management, 269-280.
Glozier, N. (2002). Mental ill health and fitness for work. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 59(10), 714-720.
Jones, R. J., Woods, S. A., & Guillaume, Y. R. (2015). The effectiveness of workplace coaching: A meta‐analysis of learning and performance
outcomes from coaching. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
Kahn, R.L., & Byosiere, P. (1992). Theoretical Framework for the study of stress in organisations. In M.D Dunnette & L. M. Hough (Eds.),
Handbook of Industrial and organisational psychology (2nd ed), 3, 571-650. Palo Alto, Ca: Consulting Psychologists Press.
Karasek RA Jr. 1979. Job demands, job decision latitude, and mental strain: implications for job redesign. Admin. Sci. Q. 24:285–308

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