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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
 Yin-Yang of Employee Empowerment
Inspiring People: 4 Strategies
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...
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Balanced Organization: 5 Basic
Elements
Fire (Leadership):
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...
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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. Your cannot be this thoughtful, in-the-corner-office
guru. You cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of
policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe."6
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."...
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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...
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25 Lessons from Jack Welch
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