Name: Bob Mason
Date registered: April 15, 2013
URL: http://www.planleadexcel.com
Mar 20 2013
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Motivation and Your People’s Needs One of the most important concepts to understand about motivation is need. Dr. Abraham Maslow’s extensive study of this concept resulted in the famous Hierarchy of Needs. He identified 5 needs that he felt covered the entire population and he felt those needs drove a person’s internal motivation. …
Mar 18 2013
Leadership Development: What Supervisors and Managers Need to Know Too often supervisors and managers are thrown into their new position and expected to sink or swim. In fact, sometimes they aren’t even considered worthy of leadership training being “just managers.” Remember supervisors and managers have the most face-to-face, day-to-day contact with the people …
Mar 13 2013
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Motivation and Engagement: What’s the Connection? Employee engagement has become a management buzz phrase lately. What do we really mean by engagement? What’s the connection to motivation? Engagement simply refers to how much an employee is interested and involved in the mission and goals of the company. Unfortunately many employees just come to …
Mar 11 2013
Send to Kindle Work at Home’s Interesting and Uncertain Future: Are Yahoo and Best Buy, Making a Difference? Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost And what was the difference it made? Two major management; no leadership …
Mar 06 2013
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Why All This Talk About Employee Motivation? When I was young I sometimes would hear someone promise to apply some “size 12 motivation.” Sometimes there was some other thinly veiled threat to take some unpleasant action under the guise of motivation. These techniques were not really motivation. But, you say, they worked. Yes …
Feb 27 2013
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Do We Need Team Leaders Ever heard of self-led teams? Sometimes they’re called leaderless teams. Are they real? Maybe so; I’ve heard of them, but never actually seen one. What I have seen are poorly led teams and team members that spend most of their time vying for position. Whether by plan or …
Feb 25 2013
How Not to Use the Pareto Principle Did you know that 20% of your workers are doing 80% of the work and 80% of your workers are doing only 20% of the work? That’s a pretty shocking statistic. It’s also most likely wrong. There are few concepts in management as poorly represented as …
Feb 21 2013
Ten Essential Steps for Leaders in a Crisis What are the top ten things for a leader to do when faced with a crisis? I saw this question recently and it got me thinking. Good leaders try to anticipate crisis, developing plans and checklists for anything that might happen. But what about when …
Feb 20 2013
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Leading Teams with Star Players In just about any team sporting event you’ll hear about the Most Valuable Player, or MVP. It’s easy to conclude that without this particular player, the contest would have would have been lost. Perhaps that’s true but in the teams you’re leading at work, the concept of an …
Feb 13 2013
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Leading Teams You Don’t Get to Select In the military, leaders change jobs frequently and seldom get to select their own teams. Instead, military leaders are sent to an organization to pick up where their predecessor left off and work with the team that is already in place. Though I sometimes felt this …
