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Each of us is different. We are not all motivated by the same thing. It’s a lesson that Aubrey Daniels consistently reinforces in Bringing Out the Best in People. It’s the reason managing people is so challenging. It requires thoughtful observation, persistent communication and enduring energy to discover and maintain relationships that support and encourage your people to be their best each day.
Topics: Bringing Out the Best In People, employee performance, positive reinforcement, human behavior
The behavior of people is the only way anything is accomplished in business. Organizational accomplishment is dependent on behavior. Improvements in quality, increases in productivity, or creativity are the result of asking people to change.
Topics: Bringing Out the Best In People, Employee Recognition, employee performance, positive reinforcement
During my daily meditations I imagine myself healthy. My blood clot is gone, my occasional dizzy spells a distant memory, my appetite is good, I taste and enjoy food as much as I once did. (Just not as much of it!) I imagine myself exercising, enjoying walks with my wife, eating at restaurants and socializing with the people I love and care about.
Topics: employee engagement, Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the Wo, Brand Ideal, Stengel 50, Strategic Statement of Values
Organizational direction in your company can come in several forms. I’m going to divide them into the emotional and objective since they serve two different but critical purposes. On the emotional side we look at what might be labeled as “Strategic Statement of Values.” On the opposite side, the objective is the Strategic Objective Statement which produces the Strategy Statement we’ve discussed in previous blogs.
Topics: employee engagement, strategy, Business Culture, Q12, Employee Survey
At a recent client monthly meeting we discussed their new employee orientation (onboarding) process and how someone is always included to mentor the new person. The mentoring program isn’t structured. Its primary intent is to provide an opportunity for feedback and concerns that they might not feel they can address with their supervisor. The CEO played a video on why mentoring is important this company. Immediately he observed there were additional opportunities mentoring offers to grow their business.
Topics: employee engagement, Leadership Training, Leadership DNA, Connecting, Cost of Mis-hire
Inside your business there’s a secret weapon that probably lies dormant. You’re unaware of the latent potential it possess or didn’t realize how you can develop it in order to increase your capacity to grow.
Topics: employee engagement, People, Organizational Health, Business Culture, Gallup's Q12 Employee Engagement Survey
Topics: Strategic Discipline, Cadence of Accountability, meeting rhythms, Strategic Learning, Five Killer Competencies, Strategic Learning Cycle
Nature generates variations through a massive and ceaseless set of experiments. Mutations test a wide range of survival strategies.
Topics: strategy, Strategic Learning, Strategic Planning
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The Strategic Discipline Blog focuses on midsize business owners with a ravenous appetite to improve his or her leadership skills and business results.
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