Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 8, 2019

What works better is transforming your organization into a network organization. Okay, but what is a network organization and how and why does it work? The atmosphere of the informal aspect is noticeable: think of the grapevine, around the coffee machine, at people’s desks, and small talk on the work floor. The autonomy aspect.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Trust and autonomy. By expressing this trust and giving the team the responsibility, you respect each team member’s need for autonomy. When you expect your team members to fail at what they do, you place them under extra pressure, which might just work counterproductively. Use self-fulfilling prophecies to your benefit.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2018

They are superb at work that uses their brain. Team members should trust each other to do the work they’re supposed to do. Team members should also trust each other to support them and work for the good of the team. Your challenge as a boss is to work out the best way to deal with every teammate. People are creative.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 28, 2018

When employees come to work to earn a salary (which is an extrinsic motivation), they will do what is necessary because they have to. When someone comes to work because that work fulfills their needs and gives them pleasure, they do what they have to do – and lots more – because it’s stimulating (an intrinsic motivation).

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Haleigh had been working for months to enhance others’ perception of her. In other words, they’re prerequisites for cultivating influence over others at work. Always be prepared to connect with them and mention key projects you’ve been working on and their results. What should she focus on, now that she’d met those goals?

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These are questions I’ve come up against recently as I’ve worked with organizations across a variety of industries. Learn more about Julie’s consulting, speaking, and blog at juliewinklegiulioni.com. Leadership Development autonomy business Deci & Ryan downsizing employee engagement employee involvement'

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

I have one of these coming up soon on 25th January, with a new client for whom I have not worked before. I was recommended to them by a colleague of theirs who knows and trusts how I work. Many years of working as a management consultant, coach and mentor tell me the exact opposite is often the case. In summary.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2019

Engaged employees can be described as being fully immersed in and enthusiastic about their work. Satisfaction can be described as being happy at work. Engaged employees take ownership, deliver on their commitments in and outside the organization and are passionate about satisfying the customer because they own the result of their work.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

Most of all, she learned to hire great people, give them autonomy and never micromanage them! . The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. At least, that’s how my grandmother used to describe it. Maybe there’s still something to this adage. Stefania Mallett turned this old idea into a billion-dollar tech unicorn called ezCater.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Yet if the coworker doesn’t know to what degree their work matches expectations (of the leader, colleagues, organization, or client), they also don’t know how good they are at what they do. The outcome of their work is secondary to fulfilment of their need for connection, autonomy, and mastery. Avoid Criticism.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2019

A monolog only works to transmit powerful messages. And unless there is an urgent motivation to listen, the sender of the monolog is violating the listeners’ psychological needs for connection, mastery, and autonomy. I often hear (about) leaders in organizations mumbling things like, “We need to get the dialog going on the subject of.”

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 30, 2017

One of the most powerful theories on how to motivate people on the work-floor is Deci and Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory. Self-Determination Theory states that there are three basic needs that influence job satisfaction: Mastery, connection and autonomy. Motivating on Autonomy. Self-Determination Theory. Back to Emotions.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Clearly none of these scenarios is very effective, efficient, nor pleasant to work in. This principle goes for all hierarchical levels in the organization, from the CEO to management teams, and all the way down to the work floor. Every decision at the right level. Don’t forget the rider! Stepped decision-making addresses these issues.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Nevertheless, we all know leaders who have dysfunctional behaviors, and here are the top five which must be avoided at all cost: Micromanaging: When a leader closely supervises and controls every aspect of their team’s work, this can create a sense of mistrust and insecurity among team members. Lack of communication.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 6, 2020

Let’s be honest, 40% of the average person’s time is spent working. I once heard about a director who learned by heart the names and faces of all 250 coworkers before he started working for a new organization. On his first day at work he knew everyone by name, from the front desk clerk to the cleaning staff and to every manager.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2016

The key is to create “intelligent autonomy” that gives employees the independence and influence they crave, but does so in a manner that thoughtfully avoids the contradictions and pitfalls of a poorly executed delegation of power. Position power gives way to personal power with autonomy.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2019

To help my clients, I use and advocate a tool from the work of David Rock , known as the SCARF technique, which he designed to help improve the way people work together. Autonomy – People need to know they have choices, even if they are limited. No perceived or real choice equates to high stress, no control, and no autonomy.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Flourishing includes living and acting with integrity, virtue, purpose, meaning, dignity, and autonomy—aspects of life that are not just difficult to quantify but that you might put front and center, regardless of the cost.”. Don’t assume that what works for them works for you. So what do we do when faced with a wild problem?

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Lead from Within

APRIL 11, 2023

Showing appreciation is important to leaders, making it meaningful helps to create a positive and supportive work environment. When employees feel valued and recognized for their hard work, they are more likely to be motivated to perform at their best. As a result, they contribute to the success of the organization.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

And in the months that followed, I learned some important lessons that guide me in my work life even to this day as a healthcare executive. almost always works with kids. This phenomenon happens even when that first job has absolutely nothing to do with the career you ultimately end up pursuing, which is exactly what happened to me.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As a result, this creates a positive and inclusive work culture. When empowering others: A great leader is able to empower their team members, giving them the autonomy and support they need to take ownership of their work and develop their skills.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

N O MATTER WHAT you are doing, you can be motivated by the work you do. Performance coach Stefan Falk has written Intrinsic Motivation: Learn to Love Your Work and Succeed as Never Before to help you do just that. Consciously create emotional expectations for your experience of work and psych yourself up to meet or beat them.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Through my work with business leaders from CEOs to first-line managers, it has become clear that many people with strong technical prowess and powerful business acumen have unintentionally misunderstood an unwritten but essential aspect of their job. Or, they push for autonomy when their manager wants engagement.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

All organizations must face major transformations while working to advance in their industry. As the key change driver in his organization, Daniel highlighted the importance of having the support of the whole Executive Board to create an agile work environment to drive a successful transformation. Boris Dragovi? And why is that?

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 16, 2017

Mastering the art of unlearning “We all have routines, habits based on what has worked for us before. Minimal structure, maximal autonomy Too much structure kills innovation. A similar balance of clarity and flexibility is ideal in the workplace, giving teams what Barrett calls “guided autonomy”. Say yes to the mess.”

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

Haleigh had been working for months to enhance others’ perception of her. In other words, they’re prerequisites for cultivating influence over others at work. Always be prepared to connect with them and mention key projects you’ve been working on and their results. What should she focus on, now that she’d met those goals?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 13, 2018

In a classic experiment, leaders were asked to manipulate the way they entered the work floor every morning. And you are limiting their autonomy, thereby ensuring their basic psychological needs for mastery and autonomy aren’t met. Remember, an excellent organization is appreciative, interesting, and challenging to work for.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2017

I work extensively with CPAs, CFOs, and other technical professionals; a group not known for its propensity to change. Invite a cross-section of employees to view your organization as if they worked for your top competitors. The name Skunk Works originated from the bad smell near the rented circus tent in which the team worked.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 11, 2019

This approach seldom works, though, thanks to the fundamentally flawed assumption that people are rational beings. This is also why the rational approach doesn’t really work: your arguments elicit resistance , whether spoken out or not. Somewhere between the 95% and 98% of the decisions a person makes are not conscious decisions.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

Sustainable performance means coworkers do excellent work without falling into the traps of burnout or workaholism. Schaufeli and colleagues define engagement as “a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption.” The work the coworker does really interests them.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

He’s important today because of the work he did on something called “motivator-hygiene theory.” Herzberg identified two factors that determine how satisfied we are with work. They were the things that make it great to go to work. If you’ve had a time in your life when it’s great to go to work, you know what I’m talking about.

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Leading Blog

MAY 13, 2020

Well, with a global pandemic and shelter-in-place orders, employees are working from home and are forced to limit their physical interactions with colleagues, family, and friends. What is belonging at work? Feeling valued at work: When employees believe their contributions, effort, and personal sacrifices are expressly appreciated.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Coworkers come to work, aren’t really involved, and generally feel themselves unappreciated. The work environment is characterized by complaining (especially amongst one another), general negativity, high absenteeism, and a large brain-drain of valuable employees who seek better opportunities elsewhere. So, let’s make work a fun place.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 27, 2013

The most overwhelming responses were more autonomy, empowerment, support, access to viable resources, opportunities to collaborate on projects, and the ability to fully use their skills. The gist of this is - old fashioned command an control no longer work. And it worked. There is also some cool in Long Island finally.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 27, 2018

He’s one of the best—he works hard and long hours, he’s dedicated, loyal and hard working, and he excels at what he does. It is widely known that burnout results from workload pressures, long hours, tight deadlines and picking up the work of others. Give autonomy. Here are six strategies that will help: Set clear goals.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Ongoing innovation with new products, services, and processes through autonomy and entrepreneurship. Our political climate might be hard to change, but we all have the chance to improve matters in our work. A customer-first focus in all decisions. Productivity through well-trained, rewarded, and empowered front-line employees.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the journey. Mansharamani illustrates how in a very real sense we have outsourced our thinking to a troubling degree, relinquishing our autonomy.

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