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Navigator Newsletter #180

Chart Your Course

People have a basic human need to feel appreciated. Recognition programs help meet that need as well as generate behavior in alignment with organizational goals and standards. Conduct an employee satisfaction survey to pinpoint areas of dissatisfaction. 6) Create a work place that engages and inspires employees.

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Overriding Our Instincts in Order to Become Caring Leaders

Leading Blog

Did I send out a monthly newsletter? The human brain is a miracle of survival and, from a psychological and evolutionary perspective, this makes sense. We have a human need for steadiness and predictability. So, we rely on the leadership recipe. This “formula for leadership” approach occurs at all levels.

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Rise of Lonely American Employees Undermines Productivity

Michael Lee Stallard

Because the culture of indifference doesn’t meet universal human needs for respect, recognition, belonging, autonomy, personal growth and meaning, it gradually drains the life out of people. If the worst culture is a dog-eat-dog culture, then the best culture is similar to a sled dog team that pulls together.

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The Continuum and the Marketplace

Strategy Driven

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. Businesses that seek to create superior product/service experiences need to learn how to empathize with consumers’ needs. The Value of Human Needs. All rights reserved.

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Employee Recognition Ideas

Chart Your Course

All humans need to feel appreciated. Small, informal celebrations are many times more effective than a once a quarter or once a year formal event.Employee appreciation and recognition are critical to achieving organizational goals.

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Employee Recognition Ideas

Chart Your Course

All humans need to feel appreciated. Small, informal celebrations are many times more effective than a once a quarter or once a year formal event.Employee appreciation and recognition are critical to achieving organizational goals.

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Moving on from ROI to ROE, a Return on Empathy

Strategy Driven

When businesses look beyond the rational data, and into the meaning behind their customers’ feelings, and behaviors, they will recognize the human needs that drive decision making. Control, one of the six core emotional needs I discuss in Empathetic Marketing , fuels our motivations in every aspect of our lives.

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