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Micro-Motivation: A Powerful Technique to Inspire Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Here are just a few examples of how you can use micro-motivation events: 1) New Documentation System The entire engineering organization migrated to a new documentation system to better serve clients and respond to support inquiries more quickly. Begin the day with energy and fun; make it feel like a holiday.

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Catalyzing Leadership Energy Building Ready Now Leaders

Lead Change Blog

Author Matt Paese explores leadership acceleration and how organizations can convert sluggish processes into dynamic adventures that produce energy instead of burning it. Listen in as Matt Paese applies a simple framework for evaluating your organization’s systems to identify the best opportunities for rapid and practical improvements.

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Energy for a New Year

Leadership Freak

The law of energy is put more in than you take out. Any person or system that takes out more than it puts in is dying. Courage Encouragement Marks of leaders Motivation Optimism Power energize leaders Leadership Leadership Development organizational success Priorities sources of energy'

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Motivating, Mentoring and Measuring – Leading Unfamiliar Organizations

General Leadership

Motivating. As a commander, I worked with my commanding general, the leaders of each weapon system my squadron supported and leaders in the simulator industry to help me understand the framework of my organization. The leader becomes the cheerleader for the organization, focusing everyone’s energy in the same direction.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

A flight attendant’s response showed how management just didn’t get it, “We’re smiling in spite of the fact that we’re doing our job with fewer flight attendants, a system that often breaks down, and a product that’s deteriorated.” Where’s the Needle on Your Energy Meter?

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Generating Keen Energy That Electrifies a Powerful Culture

The Practical Leader

To draw out these ideas, managers have sometimes tried formalized approaches like suggestion systems. Review your strategies for understanding what common causes your organization may have for draining energy and/or losing good people. Simplify systems and streamline processes. These have mostly failed.

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Master Your Motivation

Skip Prichard

3 Needs of Motivation. She’s an expert in motivation, a bestselling author, and a senior consulting partner for The Ken Blanchard Companies. Her latest book is Master Your Motivation. In it, Susan tackles motivation in a fresh way. Optimal motivation is driven by three needs: choice, connection, and competence.