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Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders

Leading Blog

If you are committed, you can learn and apply specific tools to improve how you lead.”. You can use your understanding of human needs and the employee experience to lead a team of joyful, engaged, and high-performing people.” And after the 2020-21 Covid response, I doubt those statistics have changed much. Connection.

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If We’re Not Human at Work, What are We?

Lead Change Blog

What if it’s about normalizing real human experiences in a work-appropriate way? How about addressing the real human needs to be seen and to belong? Humanity at work — this means you. Let’s revisit that email subject line, “How to Be Human at Work.” There’s other work needed first. Let’s not go there.

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4 Critical Needs of Employees During Coronavirus Lockdown

Leading with Trust

In order to be fully engaged and bring our best selves to work, there are four basic human needs that must be met. Meeting these needs has become even more critically important during this time of uncertainty and change, and if we lose sight of them, we run the risk of losing our best people.

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The Choice is Yours: 6 Principles for Leveraging the Power of Choice to Build Trust, Manage Change, and Empower Others

Leading with Trust

In her book, Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does , my friend and colleague, Susan Fowler, says “ Autonomy is our human need to perceive we have choices. It is our need to feel that what we are doing is of our own volition. It is our perception that we are the source of our actions. ”.

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How Leaders Can Make their Messaging Meaningful

Lead Change Blog

It makes the difference between compliance and commitment, meaningless work and meaningful work. Addressing these basic human needs is effectively helping to answer the deeply held questions: What’s the point? The late Maya Angelou pinpoints the key to communication that engages and makes meaning: make people feel something.

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If We’re Not Human At Work, What Are We?

ReImagine Work

What if it’s about normalizing real human experiences in a work-appropriate ways? How about addressing the real human needs to be seen and to belong? Humanity at work. Let’s revisit that email subject line, “How to Be Human at Work.” There’s other work needed first. Demonstrating commitment comes first.

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What Are Your Needs?

CO2

Needs drive decision-making, so it pays for leaders to know not only what their own needs are, but what their team members’ needs are as well. Today, we’ll review three attempts to classify human needs: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Alderfer’s ERG Theory, and McClelland’s Need Theory.