How Great Leaders Empower Employees

Photo by Polina u2800 on Pexels.com

‘Good leaders hear the needs of their employees, great leaders actively listen and care.’

Feedback conversations don’t have to occur in an annual review and don’t have to happen constantly. They have to happen in a collaborative and relevant way so that it matches both the work and career goals.’

‘Putting a sound strategy in place doesn’t do much if you’re not following up with with a targeted action plan.’

‘Don’t wait for the annual performance review to evaluate and let go of poor performers.’

Organizations and their leaders should worry less about compliance, ranking, and reviews and more about the big picture, creating a culture of coaching and feedback that empowers employees to use their skills and talents to support the company’s goals while also achieving their own.’

Performance enablement is a new and far better path toward organizational effectiveness and employee satisfaction than old-fashioned performance management.’

Employee goals should be agile and tied to the company’s top-level goals and should cover personal development and help employees strive to do more with their careers.’

A plan that suits your organization can open the eyes of everyone, from the newest hire to the executive, to how they can secure more effective training, how the company can reenvision its goals, and essentially how the individual and the institution can serve one another more effectively.’

‘The key to effective use of a people development plan is communication. Maximize effective interactions between managers and employees, and ensure that executives are accessible to all.’

Offering feedback in the flow of work helps you address behaviors in real time. Employee will make a better connection between what you’re telling them and how they can improve moving forward.’

The greatest leaders enable others to disrupt the status quo and facilitate growth, innovation, and change.’

Source

Doug Dennerline, Jamie Aitken (2023). Make Work Better: Revolutionizing How Great Bosses Lead, Give Feedback, and Empower Employees

‘Creating A World Of Abundance’

Photo by Ann H on Pexels.com

‘Today, we need to fundamentally change the software of our mental and instinctual programming from one based on threat and survival to one of promise and prosperity.’

Our future is not cast in stone. It is a malleable and dynamic fabric of amazing potentialities, possibilities, and probabilities. And every passing moment is an opportunity for our intervention.’

Every act is an irrevocable selection and inclusion. In other words, by making the deliberate choice- or allowing others to make the choice for us- we determine the future state!

‘If the world were perfect, it would be. Problems are life’s essential feedstock. Without problems to solve, there is no motivating tension; without tension, there is no progress; without progress, there is only stagnation.’

The minute you believe something is impossible, it becomes impossible for you. I believe that there are very few problems that can’t be solved with imagination, innovation, and competent entrepreneurship- provided they don’t break too many laws of physics.’

‘People tend to get caught up in seeing the world only as it is and not imagining what the world could be. If you focus only on what the world is, then you are resigning yourself to a particular destiny.’

‘People often say the sky is the limit. The sky is not the limit. There is no such limit. It is an articficial boundary. Imagination is our only limit.

All the transformation we need is available on demand as a function of our search. Today that works requires an intermediary- a mobile phone or computer that connects us to information. Tomorrow we may not require the intermediary.’

Our curiosity doesn’t die out, it is wiped out. Consequently, as would-be moonshot entrepreneurs, it’s likely that we’ll have a little rehabilitation to do.’

‘Curiosity doesn’t care about comfort. Curiosity has no fear of the unknown. Curiosity is precisely about being drawn to novel things because they are new and strange and unknown.’

Source

Naveen Jain and John Schroeter (2018). Moonshots: Creating a World of Abundance