And How to Motivate Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere. Abraham Maslow was right: Once we have food and shelter -- but before we can seek self-actualization -- we must feel safety, belonging, and mattering.
Without these three essential keys a person cannot perform, innovate, be emotionally engaged, agree, or move forward. What you CRAVE Safety, belonging, and mattering are essential to your brain and your ability to perform at work, at home, and in life overall. The more we have of them the greater the success of the company, the relationship, the family, the team, the individual. Three Surprising Secrets to Creating Simplicity. Fog rolled in last week in Central Pennsylvania.
Warm temperatures collided with cold snow and gray mist blanked our valley. Everything slows in fog. Your Lateness Could Blow Up Your Business. Sometimes Negative Feedback is Best - Heidi Grant Halvorson. By Heidi Grant Halvorson | 8:00 AM January 28, 2013 If I see one more article or blog post about how you should never be “critical” or “negative” when giving feedback to an employee or colleague (or, for that matter, your children), I think my head will explode.
It’s incredibly frustrating. This kind of advice is surely well meant, and it certainly sounds good. After all, you probably don’t relish the thought of having to tell someone else what they are doing wrong — at minimum, it’s a little embarrassing for everyone involved. But avoiding negative feedback is both wrong-headed and dangerous. Behaviors speak louder than words—3 service reminders for leaders. I remember advice someone gave me when my kids were little, “Pay attention to your behaviors—because your kids are always watching you.”
That has turned out to be very good advice over the years, and I find the same is true for leaders in organizations. Managers can only get away with so much before their team members are going to start believing their leader’s actions more than their words. When it comes to serving customers, I have found the best managers are the ones that not only praise and acknowledge their employees when they serve their customers well, but are also role models of the behaviors they would like others to emulate.
A case in point A perfect example of this happened recently when I went with my college age son to open an account at a bank. 5 Big Discoveries About Leadership in 2012. Bad management appears to be an epidemic, costing the economy a total of $360 billion every year in lost productivity . 65% of employees say they would take a new boss over a pay raise, and 3 out of every 4 employees say their boss is the most stressful part of their job.
It’s not like we’re not trying: according to the American Society for Training and Development , in 2011, U.S. firms spent about $156 billion on corporate training . Against this backdrop, what have we learned in 2012 that might help us improve the quality of leadership? Here are five of the bigger findings. Leadership Storyboarding. One Question Away From Optimism. Image source You can’t lead if you aren’t dissatisfied. Every new beginning begins with dissatisfaction. If the present is satisfactory, you have nowhere to go. A preferred future stands on an un-preferred present. Dissatisfaction is easy, optimism is necessary. Seeing the light dimly: Three Reasons A Leader Must Have a Positive Attitude. The title of this article is pretty declarative, don’t you think?
Actually it isn’t completely true. You don’t have to have a positive attitude to have a leadership role, and you don’t even have to have it to lead. But you definitely must have a positive attitude if you want to lead successfully for an extended period of time. A specific description of what I mean when I say “positive attitude” will be saved for another day (and another article). For our purposes today, let’s define positive attitude as an expectancy that good things will generally happen, (and that even when they don’t there is likely good that will be found in the challenges) and a healthy optimism for the future for your company, team, yourself and life in general.
Low-Cost Ways To Show Employees They're Highly Valued. Small businesses can compete for talent without breaking the bank.
Yes, you still need to pay competitive wages to get people in the door, but it’s the perks that will help you retain them. Here are 30 low-cost ideas for small businesses who want to show employees that they are highly valued. Leadership Storyboarding. Frustration is a good thing? I believe frustration, dissatisfaction, disappointment, and discontent are good things in the face of mediocrity.
I’ll concede that contentment is usually better than frustration. It expresses self-confidence, self-knowledge, and acceptance of the way things are. On the other hand, I love seeing frustration. I don’t rush to end it. I love it when a project leader is frustrated that things aren’t just right. 3 reasons leaders feel frustration Leaders lean toward being control freaks. Leadership and Storytelling.
Leadership and storytelling go hand-in-hand.
In fact, leaders who lack the ability to leverage the power and influence of storytelling are missing the very essence of what accounts for compelling leadership to begin with – the story. If you’ve ever been captivated by a skilled orator whose articulation and eloquence has influenced your thinking, you understand the power of the art of story. I refer to story as an art form because it is. Storytelling requires talent and practice, but as with any worthy discipline, the investment yields great benefit. A story is the root level driver behind successfully communicating any message.