More than mere posters what really works is getting the team to do exercises which improve mindfulness like a yoga etc, inter personal relationship is the key to an individual engaging himself fully in his work , this is what works for us
Ask HN: Do productivity posters do anything for you? What works in your office?
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#12Motivational posters have become such an annoying cliché that you can make a successful business out of parodying them: http://despair.com
One of their posters seems perfectly apropos here (quoting from memory because their web site seems to be dead): "If all it takes to motivate you is a cute poster, you must have a really easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon."
Re: Ask HN: Do productivity posters do anything for you? What works in your office?
#13For me, no.
What works in our office, obviously this is personal, but we use an open office space so the fact that others are here and working motivates me.
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#14The posters that boost productivity for me are usually reference ones may not be specific to the field - i.e.
http://www.unihedron.com/projects/spectrum/
Makes me look at big picture and think of possibilities
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#15Motivational posters have become such an annoying cliché that you can make a successful business out of parodying them: http://despair.com
My old office had a ton of motivational posters. One day I paid attention (after a couple years of working there), and literally every single one was about golf.
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#16I never thought the posters actually did any sort of motivation. I always saw them as decorations, and wanting to give a certain feel to the space.
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#17I'm sorry that you've been tasked with improving productivity in your office haha.
Here are some things that you can try that will actually have a positive effect:
-Better pay
-Better hours
-The ability to work remotely
-More vacation and sick time, with the encouragement to actually use it
-More autonomy in the jobs that they're doing
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#18I found most of them a bit meh but this one resonated enough that I put it up in my office.
Apprently it's quite popular amongst industrial designers but I think the advice is relevant enough to most industries.
http://goodfuckingdesignadvice.com/collections/prints/produc...
Re: Ask HN: Do productivity posters do anything for you? What works in your office?
#19Productivity posters might spark motivation for a a short moment, but after that motivation leaves, you're back to relying on your regular patterns / habits
On a small team, most of our productivity comes in the morning after we've said hello and settled in. Gets real quiet and we all just get in the zone. As the day winds down we loosen up. It's a very pleasurable way of working, for us at least.