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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 - Innovation Unlimited, 1000ventures.com
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"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 |
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What Energizes Employees "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.
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
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... More
Treating People as the Most Valuable Asset Organizations that treat people as their most valuable asset – instead of just saying it is so – obtain impressive results and are more competitive precisely because of the way they treat their people. Such companies are special places where employees enjoy coming to work, morale is strong and productivity is even stronger. In such companies, individuals bring their best thinking and ideas to the workplace on a daily basis, do what needs to be done without being told, and feel they have a significant impact in their jobs.2 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 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
Develop a Shared Vision... 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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The Tao of Employee Empowerment
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Bibliography:
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"Every Business is a Growth Business", Ram Charan and Noel. M. Tichy
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"1001 Ways To Energize Employees", Bob Nelson
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Jack Welch speech to the Economic Club of New York, Detroit, May 16, 1994
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"Leading Change", James O'Toole
