Great People Works

Positive Feedback is the most effective way to promote and encourage the repetition of desired behaviors. It beats money hands down yet costs nothing but a few moments of thought to prepare and deliver. Everybody likes positive feedback that is specific, relates to personal qualities and is given without obvious ulterior motives.

Click on the play button below to listen to my 12 minute interview on "Today's Community" on Apostle Internet Radio. Played on April 5, 2010.

Many employers when thinking about promoting from within find themselves looking out at their employee assets and wondering "Is this all I have to choose from?" The reason for this is that they didn't hire their future manager or begin to develop their future manager from Day 1. This is what smart companies do. Many large corporations do it through well orchestrated training programs lasting anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of years and combine it with a succession planning system that constantly works to train, develop and coach talent into future management and executives.

In any organization at a given point in time some of the employees are coasting.   They are using their past momentum to carry them forward.   Some studies indicate the number of disengaged employees is between 25% to 45% on AVERAGE, but the scariest findings are that most engaged employees plan to stay employed where they are.  They are minimally engaged in what they are doing but they are also h

Just imagine how successful your you and your organization would be if you had a high-performance employee in every single position. If every manager knew how to effectively manage people, influence others and the whole team worked together to accomplish key goals. How successful would you be then?