HR Digest

MARCH 18, 2023

She found that she was able to complete her work in four days and had an extra day to spend time with her family, work on personal projects, and rest. With fewer days to get work done, employees tend to be more focused, efficient, and motivated. The post The Growing Popularity of a Four-Day Work Week: Is it Worth Considering?

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2015

For these leaders, the question is not so much how to improve employee engagement as it is how to sustain that enthusiasm and drive over the life span of a project or change initiative where it takes months or even years to achieve a successful outcome.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

These were coupled with Frederick Wilson Taylor’s popular scientific management theory that focused on financial compensation and the concept that workers’ motivation resulted from payment for volume-based repetitive task work. The consequence is a more flexible and fluid concept of leadership. This is an opportune evolution.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Today, with the International Space Station in operation and anticipation of a multi-year human mission into deep space, protecting astronauts from the negative effects of disconnection and isolation has become an issue of greater interest to NASA scientists. It turns out that our social skills are like muscles , according to research.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

54% say low performers contribute to a lack of initiative and motivation, resulting in a work culture where mediocrity is accepted. If you’ve got people ‘mailing it in’ due to a lack of energy or alignment to the mission, you’ve got performance risk,” Manning says. But it’s not just the best workers.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 3, 2022

Looking to the future is a great motivator. Most of us use appeasing at least some of the time—for example, when you don’t want to let someone down when they ask you to work on a project, be on a board, volunteer for a committee, or do whatever with them. Your car is in the shop, and you don’t want to hold up the project.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

According to Hay Group’s study, the Best Companies for Leadership are purposeful and strategic in developing, enabling and motivating leaders throughout the organization to do their best. Other major findings from Hay Group’s Best Companies for Leadership Study include : The Best Companies develop, motivate, engage and enable employees.

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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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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? Great Leaders Push Authority Down.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity? WHAT are we applying our energy and resources against? Design the campaign plan with compressed timeframes (Parallel Operations). Isn’t that what productivity should be doing? WHERE are we going?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2008

Your best employees, or A players, boost company performance, both directly—by working harder at their jobs—and indirectly, by their ability to inspire and motivate others. Therefore it’s critical to invest the time and energy to keep them satisfied and engaged. A high-profile special project assignment.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

When consistency and motivation levels are high, your startup will reap the rewards. This is particularly useful when filling roles that can be completed autonomously as it lets you focus more energy on the main team. Cloud computing, smartphone messaging Apps , and project management systems are all very useful.

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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. Purpose is soul-enriching, not soul-sucking.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

This behavior consumes your time, disturbs day-to-day operations, and alienates other team members. But when she’s asked to go above and beyond, expand her role, or pitch in on another project, she responds with, “It’s not my job.” He’ll continue to tweak a report or project hours after someone else would have declared it complete.

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HR Digest

APRIL 11, 2019

Creating an ownership culture demands employee motivation through trust, empowerment, and recognition, at least. It’s very important for every organization involving more than two people to develop ways of operation, systems, and policies that would dictate its culture. Weed out unnecessary processes that add no value.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Research shows that 60-80% of all difficulties in organizations stem from strained relationships between employees, not from deficits in an individual employee’s skill or motivation. Boundaries prevent unhealthy people from taking up too much of your time, energy, or resources – all precious commodities in the workplace.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

When we over-rely on electronic communication such as email, we are unable to discern sincerity and hence we are uncertain of the other person’s motives. Negative energy had sucked all the air out of their relationships. Their exchanges focused consistently on shortfalls and second-guessing each other’s decisions and motives.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Experience Gathering – Circumstances within and outside your control caused the projects to fail. Develop attitudes, behaviors and skills as the motivator to create bigger successes. Relate Articles: The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

The problems arise when projects need to be transferred to the business units for a large-scale launch. Does the business unit feel like the project is something they had a hand in shaping — or is it like a perishable package left on a doorstep? Operators in the business units love hitting goals and finding new efficiencies.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2019

When consistency and motivation levels are high, your startup will reap the rewards. This is particularly useful when filling roles that can be completed autonomously as it lets you focus more energy on the main team. Cloud computing, smartphone messaging Apps , and project management systems are all very useful.

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Outsourcing ROI Entrepreneur Banking 51

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES. Corporate CEOs.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

Teams require trust, and that’s built only through time spent together, solving problems, making decisions, and learning how everyone operates, sees the world, and shares information. This type of confusion wastes tons of precious time and energy. When you mix up an information exchange with decision-making, it frustrates everyone.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! Inspire and motivate. I call this ‘managing yourself smart,’ and here are some guidelines to help navigate social media.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

What are your motivations for wanting to own your business? Business ownership consumes large quantities of time and mental energy, even after it’s running well and succeeding. Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Whatever we give energy to, we give life to. For example, if we (even unintentionally) infuse negative energy, the brain reacts a certain way that reinforces a more unconstructive environment. As a leader responsible for developing leaders, I find this notion of leveraging energy for improved results intriguing.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

How much energy do you have at work? Either way, the reason might be your coworkers: They are infecting you with their energy, positive or negative. We “catch” energy through our interactions with people – something called “relational energy”— and it affects our performance at work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

Yet too much focus can be a problem : It drains your brain of energy , makes you care less about people, and prevents you from seeing what is happening around you. Not Having as Much Energy as Usual. Not Operating at Your Peak. This management of energy often requires switching between focus and unfocus.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

To motivate, persuade, sell, get buy-in, receive feedback, insure understanding, or impact an audience in any way, you need their attention. For example, let’s say you’re making a presentation to your senior executives to get funding for a project. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

have been taking advantage of peer pressure to reduce energy consumption by including charts in electricity bills showing how energy efficient you are compared to your neighbors. Academic studies are showing that the peer effect works in motivating people to save more. Putnam Investments has developed a “How Do I Compare?”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

And they project positive energy , which improves the mood of other employees and customers. Motivation Organizational culture' After all, people who are engaged put in effort that goes above and beyond the minimum that’s required to complete a task. They are less likely to look for another job.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The goals include eliminating poverty, offering affordable and clean energy, achieving gender equality, protecting ecosystems, increasing responsible consumption and production, and much more. Do new targets motivate undesirable trade-offs? The UN, for example, has outlined 17 broad Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It wasn't too long ago that corporations were the villains — polluting the environment , exploiting workers , and consuming energy and other resources without concern for long term consequences to the planet. How much energy are you consuming? As Jason Saul argues in his new book Social Innovation Inc. ,

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Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! There is simple advice that will help businesses avoid the pitfalls and make a strong online impact.

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

At the company’s latest shareholder meeting, a think tank, NCPPR, pushed Apple to stop pursuing environmental initiatives like investing in renewable energy. He made it clear that he makes choices for reasons beyond just the profit motive. Consider Walmart’s significant commitments to energy efficiency and renewables.

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CEO ROI Environment Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Type 1 diabetes renders the pancreas incapable of producing the insulin necessary to shift glucose out of the bloodstream and into cells where it can be converted into energy. When his son, Hayden, was diagnosed with the disease, in 2009, Lane was a product manager at GE Energy. Look for passion. Prioritize problem-solving.

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