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Motivation | Hanging the Mirror

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Appreciating What Employees Do and *Can* Do. Recognizing employees’ efforts is critical to building workplace morale and motivation. But it can also play an important role in building new skills and capacities. We once surveyed a software development firm in Nebraska. Meeting with a cross section of staff members, we asked a range of open-ended questions, one of which was, How do you know if you are doing a good job? Do, encouraging them to take on and succeed at new projects. Her approach was inspiring,...

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Appreciation | Hanging the Mirror

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The Most Profound Form of Recognition. We have previously suggested. That recognition is, at the most fundamental level, an acknowledgement of the worth of a human being. But how can we tell if someone really values us? What demonstrates their regard? What are its tangible, outward manifestations? When asked this question in workshops, participants often say things like they seek me out, they spend time with me, they share thoughts and ideas with me, they ask my opinions, they listen with real interest.

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Authority | Hanging the Mirror

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The Buck Stops Where? The data were clear. Three supervisors were doing a great job. Three others were struggling or failing outright. The CEO instinctively approached the survey results as a tool to pinpoint deficient managers. But our experience suggested that the problem lay less in any one individual’s failures than in the overall variation. Of leadership within the organization. Imagine, for example, the municipal workforce of a mid-sized city. If any night janitor ends his shift in the courthou...

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Capturing the Human Spirit | Hanging the Mirror

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Capturing the Human Spirit. Leadership is a 100 percent human undertaking. Systems are populated by people. Policies are embraced or rejected by people. Plans are enacted or ignored by people. And because of this, effective leadership hinges on a leader’s ability to access the talent, enhance the capacity, and develop the potential of people. But what are these human beings that leaders are obliged to work with? It’s true that a certain level of compliance can be bought, obedience compelled, and results ...

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Hanging the Mirror

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What if leadership growth took more than simply changing behaviors? What if it required reflecting on one’s deepest beliefs, values, assumptions, and convictions? What if it obliged each of us to hang a mirror and take an unflinching look at what we see there? These are the questions that lie at the heart of reflective leadership, a process of personal and professional transformation that, we believe, lies at the heart of truly commendable leadership. Please join us in this journey. Alan, Nancy, and Mark.

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Your View Isn’t the Important One: The Role of Perception in the Workplace | Hanging the Mirror

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Your View Isn’t the Important One: The Role of Perception in the Workplace. Imagine that you wanted to know what kind of husband a certain man is. How might you find out? This simplest approach might be simply asking him directly. But that would only reveal the kind of husband he thinks he is, or tries to be, or hopes to be. If you wanted to know what kind of husband he. You would do far better to ask his. We human beings can assess the impact of our behavior on others to a degree. Our perceptions, h...

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Perceptions, Authority, and Perceptions of Authority | Hanging the Mirror

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Perceptions, Authority, and Perceptions of Authority. Managers today often perceive relatively little hierarchical distance between them and their subordinates. Yes, they might shoulder certain responsibilities and make the final call in certain situations. But they generally see themselves as part of the team. That perception, though, is in many ways a consequence of the very authority they hold (and their subordinates don’t). Well the woman hesitated. In later telling the story to us, the woman said th...

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Below the Line | Hanging the Mirror

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Category Archives: Below the Line. Unity, Discord, and the Reality of Human Nature. If it is in fact true that organizational performance rises with growing levels of agreement, collaboration, reciprocity and shared vision, why do leaders accept significant (and largely avoidable) costs of disunity? Much has to do with widespread below-the-line beliefs that disunity is just the way things are. Unity, in this view, goes against fundamental realities of psychological makeup. But is this true? Imagine an or...