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Career Advancement

Extra responsibilities are always part of rising higher in an organization, but if they don't come with the potential for more self-direction, the promotion will feel more like a burden than a reward.

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Alignemnt

People are more likely to feel fulfilled when they have clear and aligned goals and targets.  They're not wandering and wondering about their work; they can see how it connects and helps the organization. 

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#Empowerment

Within most organizations you'll find far more people who feel empowered to say no than people who feel they are empowered to say yes. 

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Learning vs. Training

You can measure the hours people spend in training, but it's even better to measure the objective knowledge they've acquired, which you can do with testing.

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Public Goals

Research shows that public goals are more likely to be attained than goals held in private.  In a recent survey of one thousand working U.S. adults, 92% said they'd be more motivated to reach their goals if colleagues could see their progress. 

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#Measurements

When we choose the wrong measurement, we get the wrong behavior.  Choose wisely! 

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The Skills Transfer Gap

Few employees seem to take what they learn in the classroom and apply it to their jobs - and the further removed the locus of learning is from the locus of application, the larger this gap becomes.

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Talent Team

In a 2012 study of a large company's front-line supervisors, the National Bureau of Economic Research concluded that, as one summary put it, "The most efficient structure is to assign the best workers to the best bosses.  Does this reflect your company? 

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Performance Standards

Why do so many companies lack the discipline to build a robust, focused set of measurable objectives for employees?  These companies instead default to subjective assessments or to objectives that are redefined when it comes time for evaluation.  And as a result, performance suffers.

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Collective Intelligence

As a organization, we are already more intelligent than we are as individuals.  We are part of a collective intelligence. 

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