Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Most human behavior can be understood by recognizing the emotions that motivate it. The different ways in which people are motivated to complete tasks is based on when their emotions are activated and what activates them. Emotions provide us with information and motivation to take action. I refer to them as task-driven.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

I'm talking about adding some powerful phrases to your vocabulary that will engage, motivate and inspire others. This question demonstrates that you care, and you'll learn a lot about the person's motivation and values. No, I'm not talking adding the latest management and leadership buzzwords or jargon to your repertoire.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

This month''s Carnival is all about Motivational and Inspiring Leadership. inspirational leadership leadership development carnival motivation' The August Leadership Development is up! It''s hosted by Shawn Murphy and his team over at Switch and Shift. You can find it right here.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

When team members lose interest and motivation, they soon start to look for a new opportunity that fills this void. When team members are not clear about their responsibilities and objectives, they become frustrated and lose motivation. Misalignment around priorities and delegation breeds animosity amongst the team.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Before I knew it, my role became that of a coach, inspiring them to give their best, teaching them how to be customer-focused, understand their customers’ needs, wants and desires, and demonstrating how to present, motivate and engage the customer. Tupperware was where I learned how recognition can be an important motivator.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

You don't have to be an extroverted, rah-rah motivator to be a great leader. First and foremost, they motivate people to do their best. Not everyone has the aptitude to be a star performer, but everyone is capable of motivating themselves to get to the next level. Many people confuse leadership style with true leadership.

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JULY 29, 2014

I’m talking about adding some powerful phrases to your vocabulary that will engage and motivate, encourage people to come up with ideas, and inspire commitment. This question demonstrates that you care, and you’ll learn a lot about the person’s motivation and values. buzzwords communication inspirational jargon leadership motivation'

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

2) What motivates you? 3) Build Multiple Relationships Within your first week on the job, host 1-hour on-boarding meetings with each of your direct reports. Within the first two months, host a 30-minute 1:1 meeting with team members across multiple levels in your organization plus cross-functional colleagues.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Generally, a loss is more of a motivator than a gain. Determine what will motivate them. Explain the Consequences Once you have coached and provided then with direct feedback, they need to understand the consequences of not meeting their commitment.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2019

Simply put, leadership is the art of inspiring, motivating, empowering, supporting, and assuring a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. Since joining the workforce more than 25 years ago, and serving as a leader for numerous organizations, it’s apparent that leadership means very different things to different people.

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JULY 16, 2014

Beth Armknecht Miller employee passion engagement motivation' Regular guest contributor Beth Armknecht Miller debunks the Top 2 Myths Leaders Have About Igniting Employee Passion over at my About.com Management and Leadership.

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MAY 3, 2012

Misunderstanding Motivation. After reading, Daniel Pink’s recent book Drive , I am convinced that leaders really need to rethink how they operate and create an environment that provides the foundation for employees to be intrinsically motivated. It is the pursuit of perfection that motivates.

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MAY 8, 2014

The Unexpected Solution I’m talking about the unknown expectations; those hidden motives that may drive your boss’s behavior - the real reasons behind her agenda. Insight allows you to understand what makes your boss tick – his underlying motives. The resulting insights will help you explain his work style, behaviors and motives.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

If you are not sure how your team members want to be shown appreciation, the Motivating By Appreciation Inventory ( www.mbainventory.com ) was developed to identify the language of appreciation and specific actions preferred by each employee. appreciation motivation paul white recognition respect' Paul White, Ph.D.,

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AUGUST 13, 2020

Well-developed leaders are piqued by “not knowing” and motivated by the challenge to find out. W ith Covid-19 and mass civil disobedience we see leaders calling on traits like “being motivated by mysteries,” future scanning, simplifying and enthusiasm (to name half of the book’s eight Enablers for managing uncertainty).

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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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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Both camps fail to create sustained motivation in their people. To create buy-in and sustained motivation in your team for executing your vision make sure you: 1) Clearly define your mountain top Humans are story-based creatures. 4) Co-create the path between camps with your team Humans have a preference for editing over creation.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Action Tip: Prior to meeting with a person or persons, think about what is your purpose/motivation for listening. Action Tip: Ask yourself: What could motivate me to reduce or eliminate the temptation to judge others while listening to them? Our disrespect may not even be intentional, but it is disrespect never the less.

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JUNE 4, 2015

Myth #1: I can use my motivation to help others be motivated Make no mistake! One of a leader’s key responsibilities is to motivate others, to “rally the troops.” But what motivation are you using? The operative term here is “my motivation.” He continuously asked questions encouraging others to think. I think so.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Enable them with the mindset (attitude, determination, will), the skillset (technical or soft skills) and the toolset (tools to do their job) to truly unlock their potential and deliver excellence within their role fueling their inner self worth, igniting their self-motivation, building their confidence and their loyalty will be inevitable. #3

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Again, there is science to support this recommendation – see another Ted Talk, Dan Pink’s The Puzzle of Motivation. People are motivated when they have choices , or are empowered. If you are not familiar with it, I’d recommend this 23 minute Ted Talk for an overview. Give your employees more control over their work.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Better yet, the most important behaviors leaders can do to develop and maintain motivated, engaged employees tend to have little or no cost, but rather are a function of the daily interactions that managers have with employees pertaining to work in the context of each employees’ jobs.

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JULY 16, 2020

Needless to say, I was overjoyed at the opportunity to write Empowered, A Motivational Journal for Women when the publisher reached out to me I didn't hesitate to say YES! Lastly, if after reading this, you're inspired to begin journaling, consider Empowered, a Motivational Journal for Women.

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

There’s no accountability, no way to see if we are making progress, and no motivation to keep trying. However, responded to that darn email every day has motivated me to really pay attention – and try harder – to things that may have gotten overlooked without the reminder.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

It’s important to find out what motivates the employee, what they find satisfying and dissatisfying in a job, what their short and long range career goals are, the type of boss they like to work for, and assessing for cultural fit. Retention starts with the hiring process. Run a successful business or team.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Unless these are aligned with the organization’s strategic long-term goals, they aren’t supporting the motivation and attitudes needed to drive innovation efforts. Grundfos evaluates employees on new parameters, including a willingness to help others and motivation to undertake a new digitization journey.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Teams without appropriate leadership Teams with appropriate leadership Lack or have misplaced confidence Display confidence Constantly seek direction Are self-managing Avoid decision making Have a clear focus Are fearful of mistakes Have an appropriate sense of ownership Have tenuous loyalty at best Have loyalty to the team leader Avoid extra effort (..)

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MAY 18, 2017

We're all moved by basic motivations, emotions like the desire for acceptance and a desire to raise a family. Those motivations dictate our life choices and purchase decisions. As long as you hone in on the base motivations lurking below the surface, you're walking down the right path. But let's look a little deeper.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Great Managers have a very sophisticated understanding of how to motivate their teams. Great Managers understand that members of their teams will feel motivated when they are successful – and that feeling of success propagates self-motivation , which is long-lasting. Great Managers do not believe everything they think.

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MARCH 12, 2019

What threatened people then, will threaten today, what motivated then, will motivate today. Whilst we may now add in ‘he or she’ into this quote today, people are people and as the human brain has evolved very little (if at all) over the centuries the fundamentals of good leadership have also remained largely unchanged.

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OCTOBER 28, 2014

They need to be intrinsically motivated to change, and in order to be motivated, they need to have a sense of autonomy, or control. If you pick it, you’ll own it, and be much more motivated to learn and change. While force-feeding leadership development was never a good idea, neither is going too far in the other extreme.

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JUNE 4, 2019

This provided the motivation for the team members to take on the accountability issue. Using the principles Eric outlines in this book leads to teams that are better able to make decisions and are motivated by group success. First there was a real and meaningful shared fate on the team. You either won together or you lost together.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

He was motivated to learn how to be a good leader to keep serving more customers. His motivation? “I He and his wife Nancy Pugh own and run the wildly successful Duckfat Restaurant in Portland Maine. Working with consultants from GISC, he deepened his commitment to quality workplace by honing his own management skills.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2012

The reason they were such great Coordinators is because they were good at motivating and developing their players. As a Head Coach, they need to make a shift to motivating and developing their coaches, as well as focusing on big picture responsibilities like media and public relations, scouting, and other administrative responsibilities.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Natural born leaders have the ability to motivate and communicate better than other members of the team. I believe these two traits are the two most critical because if you can’t motivate your team or can’t communicate your ideas, there won’t be anyone following you. Therefore, who exactly are you leading?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

may shift your focus to internal motivation and performance management strategies. , you might put your energies into time-consuming campus outreach programs, complicated recruitment campaigns, or expensive technology. But changing the question to, “How can we retain the right talent?”

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AUGUST 31, 2017

Particularly in today’s uber-competitive marketplace, it is more critical than ever for leaders to understand their roles as storytellers and dream weavers in order to inspire continued motivation, creativity and growth. People want to feel motivated about coming to work and doing their jobs. Big ideas are what get people excited.

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