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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
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 growth and development of people.
Leadership Assessment #11 – Demonstrate Integrity
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 demonstrating integrity.
Leadership Assessment #14 – Emulate Level 5 Leaders
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 ability to act like a "Level 5 Leader."
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.
Don't Do A Survey
Many leaders turn to an employee satisfaction survey to identify improvement opportunities. I believe there are more accurate and direct ways to gather the needed information. This article explores the dynamin and offers a soultion.
Real Motivation
All leaders seek higher motivation within the workforce because it means greater productivity. Most leaders try to create higher motivation by trying to make workers happier with bonuses, pizza parties, or numerous other extrinsic motivators. It has been known for over a century that real motivation is an inside job.

Leaders: Hold Yourself Accountable
A favorite phrase of most leaders these days is that we need to hold our people accountable. It is important to make sure all people are living up to their commitments and responsibilities. One observation is that not too many leaders have the same zeal when it comes to holding themselves accountable for the performance of the entire enterprise. The culture of the organization is what usually determines level of performance, and the culture is created by the top leaders more than anyone else.

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Decreasing Labor Costs Without Layoffs
At a time when the nation’s economy is softening, and perhaps worse, many entrepreneurs are considering layoffs as a way to cut costs. But eliminating jobs does not always result in immediate cost-savings. There are often severance packages to finance and unemployment benefits to cover. In addition, the morale of the employees left behind always suffers. There are ways to decrease labor costs that can save jobs, however. And, in many instances, these strategies can save money immediately, keep unemployment insurance rates down, improve or at least maintain employee morale and save jobs.
So you want to intergrate a successful employee incentive programs
In order to help ensure a well maintained business or workplace, it is very important that the business keep the morale of the workers at a high level and ensure that everyone is as content and happy as possible. This will help to improve the productivity of the business, and this works to make sure that not only is the business successful, but that the workers are happy. Everyone wins. However, some companies and businesses may be unsure of how to go about increasing the morale and thus the productivity of their workers.
April Fools Day: Employee Morale and How to Kill it in 5 Easy Steps
For our first article in April, in recognition of April Fool’s Day, we’ve decided to make light of a serious topic. As an August 2008 Training Trends e-newsletter pointed out, there are “countless articles and books that promise to tell employers how to boost employee morale.” Why not take a shortcut from buying and reading all of those books and take a look at the top 5 ways to kill employee morale?

Prospecting Improves Morale & Is The Key to Increasing Sales - Find Out the Success Formula
[Business:Sales] Prospecting needs to be part of the entire sales process not just when a sales persons calendar is filled to the brim with appointments. The reason is when the pipeline of appointments dry up the sales person will feel low and morale will suffer for them and those around them. When morale is low theirs one place to look for the culprit and that is the prospecting pipeline. This will be one of the major clues that will determine why morale is low or high. Find out what the SUCCESS FORMULA IS TO INCREASED SALES & INCREASED MORALE...
Improving Morale After Redundancies
When the actual redundancy process is complete and the unfortunate employees are made redundant there remains the issue of low morale that inevitably continues for some time. Without close monitoring this can become a very serious issue to any business. Once the reduction in employees has taken place the staff that remain will probably be expected to achieve more and may have additional responsibilities placed on them. How do you get the best from your staff now that they feel uncertain about their future and how do you improve morale? There are five key areas that need to be considered and worked with carefully on an ongoing basis.

5 C's of Marketing
Victory and Defeat in war depends 90% on the morale of the Army
What is Your Influence on Culture and Morale as a Manager?
How you react in your work environment influences the culture and morale at work in more ways than your realize. Can you identify with the following Management styles and how they impact on culture and morale?
3 Ways to Improve Employee Morale and Productivity
Morale is tricky to keep positive, but it is also one of the least expensive ways to keep your employees happy and most importantly productive.
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...

Lousy Bosses Pull You Down: How to fix things
Talk about gravity. One of the most powerful things pulling down organizational performance and morale is lousy bosses.
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