Advice for Aspiring Leaders I was asked once what advice I would offer to young people pursuing a career that involved leading. I would tell them pretty much the same thing I tell anyone already in leadership positions. The advantage would be the potential to avoid developing bad habits. Leading other human beings …
Tag Archive: leadership development
Mar 27 2013
One Time When Money Can Be a Motivator
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One Time When Money Can Be a Motivator I constantly tell people that money is not a motivator. Multiple studies have shown that to be true. Money can change behavior and can appear to motivate people but it doesn’t really help them meet their own needs. With one exception. In his Hierarchy of …
Mar 20 2013
Motivation and Your People’s Needs
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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
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
Motivation and Engagement: What’s the Connection?
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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
Work at Home’s Interesting and Uncertain Future: Are Yahoo and Best Buy, Making a Difference?
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
Why All This Talk About Employee Motivation?
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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
Do We Need Team Leaders
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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
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
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 …
