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7 Best Practices to Boost Employee Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

This meets the human need for autonomy and allows people to experience personal growth. Favor guidelines rather than rules and controls, and let people know that you are available if they have questions or would like you to be a sounding board. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill understood this.

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The Leadership Wonder Drug (But Beware Of The Side Effects)

Terry Starbucker

This kind of positive reinforcement brings a psychological boost that leads to greater and greater achievement, because it plays to basic human needs of acceptance and recognition. Giving praise to teammates is one of the critical elements of effective leadership.

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Why the Health of Your Doctor Matters

Michael Lee Stallard

Social connection is a primal human need , as research has borne out. We explain how these elements meet universal human needs in the workplace for respect, recognition, belonging, autonomy, personal growth, meaning and progress. Where is there a breakdown? What might you do, individually,to turn it around?

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Featured Leading Voice: Mary Schaefer

Lead Change Blog

in Human Resource Management from the University of Charleston. Mary has always been fascinated by the human dynamic at work. Human relationships, motivation, and human needs like appreciation, belonging and making a meaningful contribution have been high on her list. Mary has a B.S.

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43 Best Leadership Books to Skyrocket Your Career

Miles Anthony Smith

There's a sea of poor advice to wade through looking for those leadership pearls of wisdom , especially with the popularity of blogging and the ease of self-publishing. Even if you manage to find what appears to be solid leadership advice, does it actually help you advance your career and become a better leader?

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Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • September 6, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership • 1 Comment. The advice proved excellent, and for the rest of my days in the corner office I was joined at the hip with an outstanding finance executive who is now the CFO of Lindt & Sprüngli , the world’s leading chocolatier. April 2011. March 2011.

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The Mind Of An Effective Leader

Eric Jacobson

“By understanding how their own mind works and training it for the most essential qualities, leaders can lead themselves effectively first, in order to better lead their people and tap into their human need for meaning, fulfillment and human connectedness,” explain Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter , authors of the book, The Mind Of The Leader.