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Ubiquitous Reinforcement
Great leaders know that reinforcement is the most powerful way to improve motivation. This article highlights four frequent errors in trying to reinforce people along with the antidotes. It also covers the need for reinforcement to be for the entire culture, not just for leaders to use.

Little Known Leadership Tip
When leaders transition to a new position, they often make a critical error of being too outspoken about possible improvements based on the environment in their presious position. This can undermine relationships dramaticlly at the very time when it is critical to be building good will with the new team.

Leading Change Initiatives
We are all aware that the pace of change continues to increase exponentially. Our frenetic world makes the need for effective change a matter of survival. Why is it that most change initiatives in organizations are impotent? My own favorite 9 prerequisites for successful change are outlined in this article.

Culture and Motivation

You have probably asked yourself, ¡§How do people become motivated to perform at peak levels over a sustained period of time?¡¨ Perhaps you found yourself coming up with incentive programs that reward based on money, vacations, or perhaps merchandise in an effort to motivate your employees. The reality is, motivation comes from within each of us is not generated by picnics or T-shirts. As a leader, do not seek to motivate your employees; rather, focus on building a culture of trust where individuals make the choice to become motivated.

Good Peer Realtions Enable Leadership Transitions
Despite rigorous selection criteria and intense training, Michael, an employee reporting to you, is not working out. His attitude and personal habits are fine, but you have invested heavily in his development but have come to the realization he will be better off as an individual contributor rather than a leader.

Merger Downsizing

The following example shows how downsizing after a merger can become a huge morale problem for the surviving organization as well as the organization being taken over. Most mergers are done to improve economies of scale and reduce costs by combining similar functions in the two previously independent organizations. This is a tempting ploy when looking at how an organization can survive the increasingly competitive world market. Beware!

Tips for Improving Motivation

The concept of motivation is one of the most misunderstood terms in the leadership lexicon. Reason: Most leaders either never learned or have forgotten the nature of motivation, so they try to achieve it using ineffective tools. This white paper focuses on the learning from Herzberg’s Two Factor theory and why those concepts can be translated into helpful guidelines that create the opportunity for higher levels of motivation.

Leadership Assessment #2 – Level of Trust

There are hundreds of assessments for leaders. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. It is the level of trust within the organization.

Leadership Assessment #3 – Growth & Development

Leadership Assessment #11 – Demonstrate Integrity

Leadership Assessment #14 – Emulate Level 5 Leaders

Maximize Discretionary Effort
Each of us has a vast storehouse of “discretionary” effort that we either give or withhold on a daily basis. Let’s examine the factors that govern why some people freely choose to give a lot more of their discretionary effort to their organization while others, equally qualified, habitually hold back most of their potential.

Incredible Speed
Here are a couple true stories that illustrate how an organization can shrink months of effort into hours if the motivation is there. The interesting thing is that the people involved really loved the challenge and rose to the occasion.

Building Trust between Management and Employees
Employees are the ones that can in fact have a positive or negative effect not only on your company’s reputation but the success of your company as well. Those managers that are able to maintain and develop trust among their employees are the ones that have longer employee retention.

Keep your employees motivated
Keeping up your staff morale is important whether things are going well or not so great with your business. Motivated employees make for better business all around. Let's look at various ways you can keep your employees motivated.

A Dozen Ways Leaders Create Meaning
The reason that most workers are not engaged in the business is that they see no real meaning in their work. This article addresses how leaders can change all that.

How Facility Managers Can Influence Employees, Vendors & Contractors and Improve Performance
Learn how to influence without authority... positively impact the morale of your employees or tenants of the facility and have a positive impact on your vendors, subcontractors and others who provide services to your facility.

How to Influence without Positional Authority and Improve Employee Morale Using 3 Simple Strategies
If you want to achieve anything meaningful in your organization... motivate others to higher levels of performance and also impact positively not only the morale of your employees, but also the morale of your peers...

Do People Enjoy You?
Article of 996 words explaining the techniques to use in order to ensure you are creating a positive, memorable experience for others when they are with you

Showing Appreciation - Learning From Watching Your Team
One of the simplest management tactics you can use to build trust and positive morale is where you find a small amount of time in your day to appreciate your people.

Merger Miseries One

Most companies I work with are going through or have recently gone through some sort of restructuring, merger, acquisition, or other major discontinuity. Also, units within organizations are frequently merging and changing structure. I observe incredible stress and anxiety when groups are trying to accomplish these changes. It is common knowledge that the process of assimilating a merger is much longer and more painful than most CEOs recognize going in. I have several observations and theories about why that is and ways to approach the merging of two cultures that might prevent some pain for many organizations. This article is the first in a series.

Is Your Management Causing Employee Issues and Slow Business Growth?
Employee issues are most often symptoms of inconsistent or failing management; deal with supervisor/manager competency and impact and you not only have engaged employees but also an effective, productive and efficient organization.

8 Ways Leaders Build Culture
The culture of an organization is something that is highly impacted by the actions and words of leaders. This article describes what makes up the culture and 8 things leaders can do to improve it.

Why You Should Change Your Organization's Culture

The culture of your company (and yes, your company has a culture now, whether you can describe it or not) is the habitual way people in the company respond everyday to challenges and opportunities. The habitual way of responding can help your company reach its goals, or it can hinder it. Culture can be changed, though not easily, but first you must know what kind of culture you have and what kind you want.

Managing the Manager
While the shareholders are watching the CEO who is trying to keep an eye on everything and is focused on the forrest rather than the individual trees, and management is focused on the employees at shop floor level... who is keeping an eye on the managers?

Ways to Manage Low Morale in the Workforce
Sometimes the methods organizations can use to boost staff morale don't have to be expensive... sometimes a smile and kindness works wonders, and other times counseling.

Finding Fun In Your Workplace
Fun and workplace - not two words you often find together in the same sentence. Find out why and how you should use them together in your company.

How to Be a Better Leader: Lessons from a Puppy

Learning about puppy training has taught us more about leadership and how to be a better leader. Here are but a few lessons. Leaders lead by example and earn true loyalty. You can influence behaviors through proper rewards, sometimes you can inadvertently create unwanted behaviors. Give constructive feedback, not criticism. Help your employees learn how to do things properly. Every leader needs good followers. Understand what your team needs to do their job and train the next crop of leaders to be successful.

Leadership Insight: The Great Turnover Bubble

It may well become the great turnover bubble of 2011. Or maybe 2012. The turnover bubble that is referenced has been created by economic conditions that began largely in 2008 but have been festering ever since. The bubble relates to a great number of people that would like to change jobs but cannot because other jobs are not available. When those jobs become available again, the bubble will burst and we will see a large migration of talent between companies and organizations.

3 Simple Strategies to Improve Your Bottom Line by Tapping Your Most Valuable Asset, Your People
Learn the two issues that impact the bottom line of manufacturing companies today and what you can do about them.

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