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#Empowerment

Empowerment is most highly correlated with employee engagement, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment, while accountability is the strongest factor impacting job performance.             #leadership #business #corporateculture 

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Measurements

Good measurements signal what's important in an organization.  They position people to get their priorities straight.  It focuses everybody's efforts on what counts the most.  It makes it possible for them to evaluate their performance, to make improvements, to allocate their time and effort to produce maximum payoff.

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Employee Performance

Common sense is not the product of tools, policies, and procedures; those are substitutes for common sense. 

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Employee Engagement (Not!)

According to Jim Clifton from Gallup, only 15% of the world's 1.4 billion full-time workers are engaged in their jobs.  What an 85% colossal waste of untapped potential, and, at a time when organizations can least afford it.

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Employee Motivation

As much as we may try to motivate employees with slogans and extrinsic rewards, you won't achieve excellence if your employees don't know why they are coming to work every day at your company.

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Goal Behaviors

To help your employees perform better, translate company goals into specific behaviors. 

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Status vs Money

In one study, 68% of sales reps sacrificed sizable commissions to they could literally earn a star on their business card which indicated they were part of an elite President's Club.  The status of the star was more important than money. 

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Process vs. People

At the end of the day, no process can be better than the people who have to make it work. 

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Developing Your Talent

The best organizations assign people to jobs in much the same way that sports coaches or music teachers choose exercises for their students - to push them just beyond their current capabilities and build the skills that are most important. 

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Performance Drivers

Goals are set to drive focus and accountability.  Metrics are in place to assess progress and performance. 

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