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Motivating & Communicating Enhancing Cooperation Between the Worker and the Management |
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By: Vadim Kotelnikov, Founder, Ten3 Business e-Coach – Inspiration and Innovation Unlimited, 1000ventures.com, 1000advices.com
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"I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." |
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Communication & Motivation – the Twins of the Knowledge-driven Economy
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9 Signs of a Losing Organization
8 Common Errors in Organizational Change Efforts By: John Kotter
Unleashing the Power of Motivation "There are many forms and degrees of cooperation between the worker and the management", wrote James F. Lincoln, an astute corporate leader and a member of the founding family of Lincoln Electric Company. "The worker's attitude can vary all the way from passivity to highly imaginative contributions to efficiency and progress." Motivating through Communicating Your Strategic Focus Motivation depends on having clear objectives. Since motivation is personal, aim to align staff's individual drives with the company's purposes in general and your unit's in particular. "Most companies are filled with people who have no clue of the big picture – what the organization is really trying to accomplish – and because they don't feel that they or their contributions are important, they do their job... and nothing more".6 To unleash the power of your organization and achieve exceptional results, you must empower employees and motivate them to follow through on your strategic focus. Your business will be able to bring new products/services to the market much faster if "everyone within the organization had their heart and soul wrapped up in taking aim and shooting at the same target".6 Effective Motivation: the Art, Science and Practice Motivation is the process of stimulating an individual to take action that will accomplish a desired goal. Highly motivated individuals can bring about substantial increases in productivity and job satisfaction and substantial decreases in tardiness, grievances, absenteeism, and so forth. Your motivation strategy will determine how easily you can get down and do a task... More Inspirational Leadership: 10 Roles
Using Strategic Intent to Motivate Idea Generation Strategic intent is senior management's primary motivational tool for radical idea generation. Senior management uses strategic intent to communicate a misfit between current resources and corporate aspirations and motivate idea generation when it actively encourages the quest for new opportunities.
Communicating
Communication strategy is a coherence linkage never to be overlooked.
Communication needs to be comprehensively planned and spontaneous, as well
as top-down and bottom-up. Communication processes, including the target
audience, the message, the means of communication, the frequency, t Top organizations have a communication process that communicates the knowledge and information that people need in a way that they understand and can apply to their job. Communication is neither a separate nor a periodic task. Use every means available to let everyone working with you know your plans and your reasons. A manager should provide team members with the information they require to do a good job, communicating with them frequently, and giving them clear guidelines on the results that are expected. Communication is a two-way relationship, so establish an enabling environment for other could give you the information you need. Use feedback to make certain that communication has become understanding and consensus. Practice management by wandering around (MBWA). Communicate with reports and benchmarks that track business progress and anticipate issues and opportunities, for example:
Focused meetings can also foster clear effective communication, and spark action. Case in Point Wall-Mart In his 10 Rules for Building a Business Success, Sam Walton, the Founder of Wall-Mart writes: "Communicate everything you possibly can to your partners. The more they know, the more they'll understand. The more they understand, the more they'll care. Once they care, there's no stopping them. If you don't trust your associates to know what's going on, they'll know you really don't consider them partners. Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitors."... More The 10 Key Project Leader Skills
How To Break Down Barriers To Communication
Three Key Benefits of Japanese Suggestion Systems Suggestion systems are a valuable opportunity for worker self-development as well as for two-way communication in the workshop... More 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork
5 Factors that Make a Project a Success
By: Eric Verzuh, author of
The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management
To be successful, a project must
have...:
Constant, effective
communication among everyone involved in the project in order to
coordinate action, recognize and solve problems, and react to changes...
More Innovation Management Policies for Large Corporations
By: Bill
Gates, Founder of Microsoft
Eliminate
politics, by giving everybody the same message...
Active Listening Active listening is a habit that you can and should develop. Being a great listener benefits managers by reducing misunderstandings, improving information accuracy, and ensuring that they have complete information from which to work. Employees, peers, and even your manager will open up more when they feel listened to... More
Sharing Motivation... The Incentives that are Most Potent when Properly Offered... Qualities You Must Possess to Motivate Staff Effectively... Motivating Different People in Different Ways... Motivating and Demotivating Factors in the Work Situation... The 3 Ps of Motivation... Using Involvement to Motivate... Communicating Strategy as a Process... Components of the Communication Environment... 4 Kinds of Communication Within Organization... Effective Communication: Organizational Perspective... Manager's Listening Skills... Case in Point Monsanto... Case in Point SynerGenics... Case in Point GE... Case in Point Dell Computers... Case in Point Infosys... Case in Point Microsoft... Case in Point Toyota... Case in Point British Petroleum...
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