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Preventing Workplace Burnout

The Center For Leadership Studies

Ebbs and flows in work-related motivation is both normal and predictable. The excitement that comes with learning a task or developing a new skill can be replaced by boredom or a sense of routine once either has been mastered. Elusive Energy–Work-related stamina is declining. What Is Workplace Burnout?

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The Big Picture of Business – The Fine Art of Failure: Benefiting from Mistakes to Assure Success

Strategy Driven

We learn three times more from failure than from success. 7 Degrees of Failure… Plateaus in the Learning Curve. ” Beginning to learn better approaches by analyzing the wrong ways of doing things. Develop attitudes, behaviors and skills as the motivator to create bigger successes.

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What to Do When a Good Employee Stops Trying to Grow

Harvard Business Review

But what do you do when someone you manage gets to the top of their learning curve — and doesn’t really want to be pushed any further? Is it OK if someone you are managing doesn’t seem motivated to take on a new assignment or build new skills? Encourage an Entirely New Learning Curve. Kerry Jones.

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Top Leadership Blog Posts

Michael Lee Stallard

It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. ” Lakshman Rajagopalan presents What can you do about a culture of Mistrust… posted at Learning Curves. ” Henry Mukuti presents 5 Qualities of leaders and motivators part 1 posted at standout tall and be counted.

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The November 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. Lakshman Rajagopalan presents What can you do about a culture of Mistrust… posted at Learning Curves. Henry Mukuti presents 5 Qualities of leaders and motivators part 1 posted at standout tall and be counted.

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When to Turn Down a Lucrative Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

First, you can consider declining an engagement when your learning curve has flattened. ” That sense of ennui eventually leads to a lack of motivation and, in some cases, poor performance. ” He was interested in helping people change behavior, but “it was too lonely, too isolated, the energy wasn’t right.”

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How to Prioritize Your Work When Your Manager Doesn’t

Harvard Business Review

Motivation and energy fuel action, so when setting priorities, get clear on what brings you inspiration in your work today. Quadrant II: Tolerate those parts of the role that are important but drain your energy when you’re engaging in them. Tolerate the fact that you may be on a learning curve.