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e of the great beliefs we have as managers is that our job is to listen to our employees’ ideas and then go implement those that we find valuable. Sounds like a great idea. But as managers we know the reality is that a good many employee ideas just don’t make business sense.
Engaging Employees: The Economics of Micro Ingenuity
Wouldn’t it be a dream if every employee could add $13,000 to the bottom line of your business each and every year? No need to dream because research shows that’s exactly what happens when an employee shifts from being disengaged to engaged.
May Leadership Development Carnival
At the first of every month, Dan McCarthy, of Great Leadership blog hosts the Leadership Development Carnival. The carnival is a roundup of recent posts on Leadership Development and Dan’s been doing this kind of thing as long as I can remember. Check out this month’s carnival for some great reading from over 25 great leadership bloggers.
Leaders Deal In Dreams
Do you help people reach for their dreams? Have you ever considered that is a job for leaders? Becky Robinson posted on Smartblog on Leadership last week about the power of our team members’ dreams, not as a motivational “tool” but rather as the high calling of a leader. The greatest work of a leader is to enable people to reach their own dreams by working to reach organizational goals and objectives. Think about it. And check out Becky’s post: Leaders Shouldn’t Ignore Their Employees’ Dreams.
The Idea Pit: 5 Stupid Reasons Smart Ideas Die
In a LinkedIn poll we conducted 80 percent of managers said that less than 10 percent of employees’ ideas ever get implemented. Sad
I often ask managers this question: “Is the key thing a manager can do to engage employees is to listen to their ideas and increase the number that get implemented?”
The consensus of the room is always yes.
8 Ways to Help End Workplace Prejudice
Today’s Smartblog on Leadership post is by Leigh Steere, co-founder of Managing People Better. She discusses racism and 8 Ways to Help End Workplace Prejudice: “Each of us needs to do a frank self-assessment and come up with a personal action plan for becoming more sensitive. Your organizational success depends on embracing employee talent and suspending judgment of the “packaging.”
Leaders struggle with two challenges when trying to make good decisions:
Leaders struggle with two challenges when trying to make good decisions:
- Making bad decisions, and
- Taking far too long to make them
Fortunately, there are 5 Simple Steps* to consistently making good decisions.
Follow these 5 steps and you will learn what hundreds of leaders use to make good decisions in a quick and straight forward way.
Today’s post covers Step 2: You must avoid the 10 Bad Decision Making Habits
Bang The Drum All Day!!!
Music has a way of transporting us- our minds, our hearts, our thoughts- to amazing and sometimes frightening place. Songs stir up memories of the past, good and bad. Songs give us new lenses to see through as we survey our current landscape of life. Songs have a way of putting a lighting a candle in the far recesses of our soul, of putting a face on our future, of helping us transcend what we know to what might be. Examining the songs that touch each of us can be a powerful tool in helping us discover our fears and hurts, our dreams and strengths.
The 7 Deadly Sins of Management
“We have a problem Houston!” The problem is that most U.S. organizations suffer from the 7 Deadly Sins of Management. The 7 Deadly Sins of Management are:
- Lack of clear direction
- No line of sight
- Unclear accountability
- Inconsistent language
- Poor issue transparency
- Insufficient resources
- Inadequate tools/skills
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Great reflections on how to use anger constructively, Mike. Anger actually has a...
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