Lead Change Blog

APRIL 27, 2021

Purpose reveals motivation and offers meaning. Mission: What are you doing to get there? Laurie Beth Jones, author of The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life , describes a mission statement this way: “The mission statement is centered on the process of what you need to be doing.”

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 22, 2015

From the book, Light A Fire Under Your Business : A clear and concise mission statement defines, in the simplest terms, your organization's core reason for being, and it had better not be all about money. Money is definitely important to most of society, and it is a motivator.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Start with your mission statement, what is your passion and motivation for this company This is the reason you are starting the company. It is really important that you know where you are going and what the purpose is before you start your business. Small Business Plan Part One 1.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This desire for intrinsic motivation is something that is portrayed as an almost unalloyed positive, but research from the University of Colorado Denver highlights that it can also land us in hot water with our colleagues.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Most average leaders I have met can recite their company's mission statement but aren't necessarily in tune with their values – solid and unwavering values that drive them toward something bigger and serve as a lighthouse when faced with tough decisions. What do they do naturally?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 29, 2017

David Grossman of The Grossman Group tells his story of self-discovery and stresses the value of leaders living authentically so you can be your best self, motivate your teams, and get results by showing leaders how to bring your best to work and bring out the best in others. How Many Mission Statements Does Your Team Have?

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

And we’ll share how to know whether or not you’ve got a sense of mission or purpose that will truly drive motivation in your organization. Purpose Is Not Just A Mission Statement. Your purpose as an organization is bigger than your mission statement. And it goes beyond just a mission statement.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2023

Hire Exceptional Staff One of the most important ways to achieve a positive corporate culture is by hiring the best, highly motivated, and most talented staff. Staff awards also serve to motivate the workforce to reach or surpass the levels of excellence that have been achieved by previous winning individuals or teams.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

From Vision to Action: Building the Blueprint Brick by Brick Your cultural integration isn’t just about flowery mission statements. Remember, a culture of appreciation goes a long way in keeping employees engaged and motivated. It’s about tangible actions and behaviors that drive alignment.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

And we’ll share how to know whether or not you’ve got a sense of mission or purpose that will truly drive motivation in your organization. Purpose Is Not Just A Mission Statement. Your purpose as an organization is bigger than your mission statement. And it goes beyond just a mission statement.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Move From Values to Behaviors: Build a Blueprint Brick by Brick Your cultural integration isn’t just about flowery mission statements. Remember, a culture of appreciation goes a long way in keeping employees engaged and motivated. It’s about tangible actions and behaviors that drive alignment.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Their “strategic framework” succinctly cascades from vision, mission, and values to strategic goals, key initiatives, and key performance indicators. This is a refreshing change from the muddled mush of visions, values, mission statements, and strategies we too often see. To Reason Why: Are You Leading on Purpose?

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Leading with Trust

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Trust in Your Mission —Organizational mission statements are common and most of our organizations have them, even if we can’t always remember them verbatim (I said they were common, not effective or well written!). But how about a personal leadership mission statement? What is your mission as a leader?

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 14, 2020

Unfortunately, most organizations have a vision and a mission statement, but few know how to align everyone in the organization around that vision to achieve results. Lack of motivation in the organization. That's why the premise of the book, Total Alignment , makes perfect sense to me. Even fewer measure and reward alignment.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Simply put the different between a vision (or mission) and purpose is emotion. Vision and mission statements are logical, they talk to the head part of the business. Through their behaviors day in and out they help inspire and motivate the team and when they do the result is a highly engaged and productive workforce.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 8, 2012

** “Organizations create visions of their future and spend a lot of time crafting mission statements. While employees rarely write down their personal mission statements, they do envision successful futures for themselves.” Bernard, Business at the Speed of Now. You don’t manipulate natural engagement, [.].

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 19, 2021

Communicate your mission. In order to successfully grow your business , you need to communicate your mission and vision to your employees and get them on board. The best mission statements are inspiring, not only to potential customers but also to the people that work for you. Make them proud to work for your company.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

While trust levels are not fixed, ‘what tends to motivate people within any organization tells you what level of trust you might realistically hope for.” So low-trust organizations rely on fear and high-trust organizations are motivated by duty and love. Trust levels differ from organization to organization. Create a common dream.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 19, 2015

But it is the mission that creates motivation, an essential ingredient in high-performance teamwork. High-performance teams must have a common purpose to experience the motivation to achieve shared success. When team members share a duty to serve a stated mission and respond in like fashion, they create motivation in each other.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 20, 2022

As mentioned in my recent post, On Purpose: What Condition is Your Mission In? The huge disconnect between our existential search for a deeper purpose and the empty words of mission statements is a major factor behind The Great Resignation. ” Daniel Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Sharing your business plan with your employees can help to direct and motivate them as well. Use a list format to present your marketing aims, mission statement, objectives, strategies and action plan. Business planning can save time and money in the long run. Update and change it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2023

While many leaders strive to energize and motivate their teams to do work that matters, the unfortunate reality is that employees often feel disconnected to their company’s core purpose. Purpose statements, if they exist at all, tend to be too vague or too lofty, or both.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

These factors might include environmental factors, incentives, the motivation of workers, etc. Long-term goals can be documented in the form of a mission statement. The mission statement should be documented in clear and concise terms to ensure that all the parties involved understand it.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 8, 2012

** “Organizations create visions of their future and spend a lot of time crafting mission statements. While employees rarely write down their personal mission statements, they do envision successful futures for themselves.” Bernard, Business at the Speed of Now.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 23, 2024

Managers produce team and organization vision, values, and mission statements without having clarified and aligned their own personal preferred future, principles, and purpose. Rebranding and customer service programs are initiated by managers who boss, direct, and control rather than serve their organization’s servers. .”

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

If vision is the destination you’re trying to reach on your hike, your mission is what got you out of bed that morning, excited to scale the mountain. Your mission is a calling, an innate urge to pursue an activity or perform a service. In the overlap of those three circles, a mission statement can emerge.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

If vision is the destination you’re trying to reach on your hike, your mission is what got you out of bed that morning, excited to scale the mountain. Your mission is a calling, an innate urge to pursue an activity or perform a service. . In the overlap of those three circles, a mission statement can emerge.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 17, 2017

Unfortunately, most organizations have a vision and a mission statement, but few know how to align everyone in the organization around that vision to achieve results. Lack of motivation in the organization. That's why the premise of the new book, Total Alignment , makes perfect sense to me. Lack of empowerment at lower levels.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 14, 2023

Many put those good intentions into mission statements, strategic plans, training, and rebranding. It’s typically executed with pushing rather than pulling through manipulation and bribery to “motivate” higher performance. But few are willing to pay the price to make the long and winding road to culture change.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 28, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE : How do you create teams that employees actually want to be a part of and are excited and motivated to participate in? Georgia Feiste of Lead Change Group says that the path to powerful and effective leadership iscommon purpose. She explains: ← Leader Athletes: Training Long for the Long Run.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 19, 2018

And why do many, despite their best efforts, manage to motivate top performers but can’t get the whole team rowing in the same direction? Systematically take purpose “off the wall” and into the work - read the mission statement at meetings, tell purpose stories in onboarding, and vet every big decision with purpose in mind.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 26, 2016

As we write in “ The Disney Way 3rd edition ”, “a story is for Main Street; a mission is for Wall Street”. Many organizations write polished mission statements, but they often have little substance and fail to produce passion. Two other important elements that drive a customer-centric culture are values and codes of conduct.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2022

If the only problem was motivation, this would work well, but when facing actual challenges, it is grossly insufficient. Don’t spend days on mission statements; don’t start with goals in strategy work.” This corporate displacement of strategy with goals has increased over the last decade or two. Richard Rumelt.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Spend time in solitude and reflection to determine one word that will provide focus, clarity, motivation, and purpose to your activities this coming year. Not a mission statement…not a phrase…but a word. The concept is simple yet powerful. Just one word.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

But adjacent to those words, in a font four times the size, and in bold, mind you, are the words, "Mission Statement." Which made me wonder, is this Red Cross's mission, or its mission statement? A person or organization on a mission is inspiring. A mission statement is an abstraction.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 13, 2019

They live and breathe by their business’s mission statement to provide the products and services that they know the public need. Their success is built on their passion; they love what they do, and their passion is contagious, inspiring and motivating. This is perhaps the most influential trait of successful entrepreneurs.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 12, 2019

Organizations need to move “beyond mission statement and philanthropy to learn to lead (their emphasis) the social enterprise — and reinvent themselves around a human focus.” The Purpose Motive: Why Does Your Organization Exist? ” Organizational performance is a team sport.

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