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Energizing Employees Getting the Best Out of Your Workers |
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By: Vadim Kotelnikov
Founder, Ten3 Business e-Coach – Inspiration and Innovation Unlimited
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"Appoint CEOs who are the Chief Energizing Officer." – Peter Kenyon |
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What Energizes Employees "The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them." – Harold Geneen "What energizes people is the broader horizon, the excitement of new challenges and big opportunities. When their leaders offer this excitement, people come alive."1 The one-on-one relationships that individual workers have with their managers, and the trust, respect, and consideration that their managers show toward them on a daily basis are also at the core of an energized workforce. "Getting the best out of workers is above all a product of the "softer" side of management – how individuals are treated, inspired, and challenged to do their best work - and the support, resources, and guidance that is provided by managers to help make exceptional employee performance a reality."2
Case in Point Lessons from Jack Welch Jack Welch's goal was to make GE "the world's most competitive enterprise." He knew that the current business environment requires an energized, energizing leader: "You've got to be live action all day. And you've got to be able to energize others. Your cannot be this thoughtful, in-the-corner-office guru. You cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe."6 Welch urged everybody to stretch. Stretch targets energize. "We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done."... More Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance. Getting employees excited about their work is the key to being a great business leader. "We now know where productivity - real and limitless productivity – comes from. It comes from challenged, empowered, excited, rewarded teams of people."3
Cultivate the Culture of Speed Speed keeps businesses - and people - young. Speed exhilarates and energizes. It's addictive, and it's a taste you need to cultivate. Values-based leadership is about ideas and values. It is about understanding the different and conflicting needs of followers, energizing followers to pursue a goal than they had thought possible. "In practical business terms, it is about creating conditions under which all followers can perform independently and effectively toward a single objective."4
Inspirational Leadership:
10
Roles
Inspirational leaders
create an
inspiring culture
within their organization.
They supply a shared
vision
and
inspire
people to achieve more than they may ever have dreamed possible.
They are able to articulate a shared vision in
a way that inspires others to act.
People do what they have to do for a
manager, they do their best for an inspirational leader...
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Develop a Shared Vision... Treating People as the Most Valuable Asset... Hope - the Foundation of All Motivation... Pleasure and Pain – the Only Two Motivators in Life Differentiating Idea as a Motivational Tool... Motivating the Person: Two Fundamental Stages... Inspiring People... Stretch!... Motivating the Team... Nine Laws of Motivation... Performance Management... Motivational Communication... Motivating Radical Idea Generation... Achieving Deep Customer Focus: 10 Critical Breakthroughs... NLP Technology of Achievement: Rules of Self-Motivation... Three Greatest Rewards of the Universe... Case in Point Wall-Mart... Case in Point Google... Case in Point Dell Computers...
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Leadership Top Management |
