Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Companies can deal with the problem by offering comfortable workstations that promote healthy postures and enough light, which, in turn, help cut down strain and make work easier. This is very important, especially where workers are doing physically demanding jobs or operating machinery. They also cannot come up with innovative ideas.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2020

This extra ‘shunting’ action helps the engine to tick over and ultimately resume its operation. As people are slowly starting to return to work and potentially begin spending again, you can position yourself at the forefront in the line of companies chomping at the bit to once again establish their audience in the best possible way.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 11, 2020

There is no one solution that fits everyone, but prioritizing your own well-being is paramount if you are to have the energy to inspire and motivate others. There are plenty of examples of companies adapting to this change. Leaders understand that they need to engage others. Great leaders are decisive. Solution Focused.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

There’s Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders , Fortune’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders , and the just published Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20. It’s no surprise that the same companies appear on these lists year over year.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The researchers surveyed 40 leaders of large companies from across Europe. The primary motivation for this was to make a positive contribution to society, but there was also a strong belief that speaking up helped to express corporate values. In other words, there is no future for companies if the earth itself has no future.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yet it affects so much of a how a business operates, from the individual in the team to the company as a collection of teams to the entire market place. There is a lack of employee engagement and productivity as accuracy levels decrease, absenteeism increases, motivation is lacking and an unhealthy degree of competitiveness exists.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Similarly, managerial leadership— when properly practiced—enables employees in a team, department, or company to accomplish far more than they could on their own. Employees may not be strongly motivated or informed enough about the rationale for their accountabilities and end up feeling disgruntled and disenfranchised, and “flying blind.”

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 5, 2014

If you’re trying to instill organizational change in your company, then you face not just a logistical shift, but a cultural challenge as well. This is a cultural intervention in which leaders seek out a few employees who are already known to be master motivators, adept at inspiring strategic awareness among their colleagues.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

Moderna is a company that is constantly building and rebuilding… its core to who we are as a company. As CHRO, I always reinforce with my HR team that we are the architects of not only the employee experience but the structure of the organization and the operating model.

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HR Digest

MARCH 18, 2023

One day, she heard that her company was considering a four-day workweek. When her company finally implemented the four-day workweek, Emily was pleasantly surprised by the results. With fewer days to get work done, employees tend to be more focused, efficient, and motivated. At first, she was skeptical.

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Leading Blog

MAY 16, 2020

Leading companies will combine these technologies in creative ways to solve business problems that couldn’t be solved using traditional digital technology. Early technology issues limited blockchain’s utility—it wasn’t scalable enough and consumed too much energy. To streamline operations and control costs.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2019

Because no matter how much more complex the world seems to become and no matter how much more quickly we race to outrun others, great leaders operate from a set of principles they use daily as filters for making decisions. Failure to act saps time, money and energy. Sometimes you must choose between several bad options.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 20, 2022

“First and foremost, purpose is about the strategic decisions and the operations of the firm. “We’re learning that the profit motive, potent though it is, can be an insufficient impetus for both individuals and organizations. ” Daniel Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

If you’re like the majority of the Western world, you’re probably motivated by greater and greater personal financial success, the yardstick most leaders use to assess their value. When our motivation is exclusively centered on elevating our own “success,” we create an environment of distrust, competition, animosity, and separation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

He was motivated to learn how to be a good leader to keep serving more customers. Despite a natural tension between the front of the house and the kitchen (in other industries, that tension is between operations and sales) his retention rate is unusually high, over 80% of employees have been there over five years. His motivation? “I

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 3, 2012

In fact, I have worked with some leaders who get their “energy” from working in crisis mode. If I had a nickel for every time a leader said to me “I told the company our (project, goal, etc), yet two weeks later they have totally forgotten the conversation”, I’d be a very wealthy person. Misunderstanding Motivation.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and a company is only as strong as its lowest-performing employees. 54% say low performers contribute to a lack of initiative and motivation, resulting in a work culture where mediocrity is accepted. And it’s costing companies a pretty penny to replace workers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Identity is increasingly being defined at the company level, and as a manifestation of the corporate culture that is rising in importance. The culture is more an expression of the values of the composite body of the workforce than the identity of the leader of the company--although these are certainly best aligned.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 10, 2020

They agree, too, that one of the very best ways to properly understand the level of skill and competency of their workforce is to observe them in real-time, real life, operational situations: cue the ride-along. These ride-along scenarios have been standard operating procedure for most developmental companies for years.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Solid relationships lie at the very core of the operations of any successful small business. The best place for a positive company culture to come from is from the top down. Passion, compassion, energy, and motivation – they are all an essential part of a solution-centric attitude that is best served from above.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2020

Likewise, company-provided laptops will make it easier for everyone to complete work from home. It might also be worth thinking about upgrading the operating systems that your company uses. The Energy. You can use it to reflect your company and your employees. The Policies. Space to Breathe.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Eileen McDargh contributed The Energy of Unexpected Gratitude. Beyond those core principles though, I find that companies have cultures that vary.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 16, 2019

They will view their current operating model and customer offerings as merely a means to achieve their larger purpose and should, therefore, be able to change direction more easily when market forces require a more radical shift. Leadership Blind Spot #4: Trust.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2020

Executing an excellent marketing campaign is even more critical for brick and mortar retail stores than it is for other types of businesses, such as those that operate solely online. As a manager, you should be able to motivate your employees to have a proactive and positive effect on your campaign. Get Your Employees Involved.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

While planning savings goals can keep you motivated, setting too large of a marker may frustrate you and cause you to toss your savings plans completely, especially once you first start out. From companies that operate in the U.S. Consolidation companies in Norway , for example, offer such manageable options.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 28, 2016

My willingness to engage with others about property values, the local housing market, and the value I bring to helping someone buy or sell a house is what motivates me to do this activity, when I would rather be sitting in the air-conditioning somewhere with a large iced tea, watching the clouds float by overhead. COMMUNITY DISCIPLINE.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Company Culture. Leaders’ jobs aren’t to motivate and inspire and engage their employees, leaders’ jobs are to teach people better mental processes by which they can eliminate drama (emotional waste), upcycle that energy and that time, and help others step into the power they already have to create a better workplace.”

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 7, 2020

Active service requires investment of time, energy, and care.) Karin Hurt of Let’s Grow Leaders shared Stretch Goals: How to Motivate and Challenge Your Team. Ann summarizes: “Sometimes the most powerful people in a company do not have a high-level job title. Bernd Geropp provided What is the purpose of a company?

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The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 26, 2012

In 1968 Frederick Herzberg reminded us of this in his now-classic Harvard Business Review article entitled “ One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? And yet, too many distressed managers believe employees are out for themselves and motivated primarily by money. They overlook the power of collaboration with their employees.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Kristen Ludgate, who leads 3M’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the “15% culture” philosophy that has helped attract the industry’s most driven workers and how tough times can have a motivational impact on the workforce. All of this takes energy and drive, for sure, along with a willingness to learn, adapt and engage.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

If retail operations can more reliably keep their discretionary relationships with people who have to pay for that relationship than we can with our employees, who earn their livelihood with us, we need to take a serious look at how we’re creating the environment for those relationships. And I’m gratified to be able to help them when I can.

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 9, 2015

Do you know how current trends will change the face of leadership in your company? Is your company ready to meet the new leadership challenges in the coming years? To deal with this shortage, companies must invest in growing their own leadership talent. Leaders are jeopardizing their companies with decision-making fatigue.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 23, 2021

Prepare to sacrifice a lot of your time, money, and energy for the success of your business. Work with a professional web design company to create a user-friendly business website. Understanding how your competitors operate can help you create a more competitive business by filling a niche and coming up with better strategies.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Jon’s written a number of best-selling books including The Energy Bus , The Carpenter , and One Word , co-written with Dan Britton and Jimmy Page. Spend time in solitude and reflection to determine one word that will provide focus, clarity, motivation, and purpose to your activities this coming year. Make 2020 a great year!

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The top ten attend the company conference, and the winner brings home a new truck. . But the best things we do at this company, I’ve learned from people in the field. Too many times you have leaders who came out of operations as big shots and become isolated and hear what the world is through 4 or 5 people who report to them.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Guest post from Robert (Dusty) Staub : “Perhaps the only sustainable competitive advantage is increasing your ability to learn faster than your competition.” - Arie de Geus, former head of Strategic Planning, Shell Oil Company Are you getting the best results from the people–the embedded collective intelligence–in your organization?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 24, 2016

When a vision addresses all three of these questions for team members, a tremendous amount of energy is unleashed. What makes them stand out is an intrinsic motivation to share power and release control. It’s still the prevalent way most companies operate. What greater good do we serve?

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