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Navigator Newsletter #180

Chart Your Course

Leaders in the organization serve as role models through their ethical behavior and personal involvement in planning, communicating and developing others. People have a basic human need to feel appreciated. People don’t quit their company, they quit their managers. You can’t have a great place to work if you have bad managers….period.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Feeling safe is a primal human need. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Our attention on whatever scares us increases until we either fight or run in the other direction, or until the threat diminishes on its own. Sometimes this strategy even works.

Company 62
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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Feeling safe is a primal human need. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Our attention on whatever scares us increases until we either fight or run in the other direction, or until the threat diminishes on its own. Sometimes this strategy even works.

Company 50