How to the boost your team’s morale

Ilya Pozin recently listed in Inc. Magazine his top 9 tips for keeping your employees motivated:

1. Be generous with praise.
2. Get rid of the managers.
3. Make your ideas theirs.
4. Never criticize or correct.
5. Make everyone a leader.
6. Take an employee to lunch once a week.
7. Give recognition and small rewards.
8. Throw company parties.
9. Share the rewards—and the pain.

Leadership at all levels

Some of these tips may seem counter-productive until you read the full article at Inc.
My personal favourite is tip #5, which I like to express as ‘leadership at all levels’.

What this means is that you have empowered your employees with the appropriate knowledge, training, skills, tools and authority to make decisions and act on them with the goal of achieving your company’s goals.

Values based strategy

Leadership at all levels can only be achieved if your employees are just as clear as you are about what strategies, tactics and actions are required for fulfilling your company’s core purpose and expressing your company’s core values in their everyday interactions with colleagues and clients.

Ask us how to establish leadership at all levels

Call Karyn Clarke of LeaderCoach | The Values Specialists for a FREE 30 minute consultation to discover how Values Based Stratgeic Planning can stimulate leadership at all levels within your organisation. Call +61 2 9686 4257 or email karyn [@] leadercoach.com.au

Here’s To Your Peak Performance, Productivity & Profits,
Karyn Clarke

What moves us to take action is connected to what moves us to feel!

I recently read an article by Joel D Canfield in which he asks ‘Why Find Your Why?” In other words, why find out what really motivates you? Here’s a short excerpt of his description of how your brain works to move you to action:

“The part of your brain you’re using to read these words is the neo-cortex. Your neo-cortex understands language, does math when it’s forced to and can even figure out organic chemistry. Your neo-cortex is pretty smart. But it has no feelings. That means it is incapable of making decisions–and it can’t create motivation.

The part of your brain which just reacted emotionally to that sentence, feeling amusement, annoyance, disbelief–that’s your limbic system. Your limbic system understands feelings and is where all the decisions in your life are made. It would be nice if our neo-cortex, the higher reasoning part of our brain, could have a little chat with our limbic system, to present facts and figures, a reasonable, logical argument, and compel it to make the rational decision our neo-cortex already thinks it made.

That won’t work. The limbic system has no capacity for language.

Despite this enormous barrier, the limbic system and neo-cortex communicate every day using the abstract concepts we call emotions. These two parts of our brain have agreed that certain words represent emotions. This leads us to the question that trumps ‘what’ and ‘how’.” You can read the whole article here.

What we feel is influenced by what we value

The core message of this website www.WinAtWorkZone.com and blog is that your values are behind your ability to effectively motivate yourself to achieve peak performance in your profession or business. Joel’s short article explains some of the neurological underpinnings of motivation and how what’s important to you (what elicits strong feelings) largely takes place beyond your conscious awareness – a useful fact to be consciously aware of!

Your values are your unconscious motivators

In practical terms, your values are your unconscious motivators, and all really successful men and women have one thing in common – they are consciously aware of their values. In other words, they have discoverd how to be consciously aware of what motivates them and to make conscious, strategic choices about what actions to take, based on living their values.

More than 20 years of research and practical application

I have spent more than 20 years applying the knowledge of researchers from across the globe to help professionals and business owners achieve peak performance in their roles by identifying what REALLY motivates them and showing them how to apply that self knowledge to achieve high levels of success by working consistently in their Peak Performance Zone. In the next few months I will be launching a series of online training opportunities that will be exclusive to members of a new online community for peak performers. This will be launched from a brand new website – details to be announced closer to launch date.

New training and development opportunity coming soon

I’ll let you know when we’re getting close to launch date so you can be the first group to have an opportunity to join, as membership will be limited initially.

Until then,

Here’s To YOUR Peak Performance,
Karyn Clarke

The path of least resistance to career and small business peak performance and profits really is an ‘inside out’ path.

Question:
What’s already inside of you, usually lurking just below your conscious awareness, that can be leveraged to boost your productivity and profits?

Answer:
Your key natural talents and your core values. In other words, what you’re good at and what’s important to you!

My previous post examined various ways to leverage your Talent Code™ and as promised in this post I am about to reveal what 10 out of 10 successful people know and do that other people do not know and do … the difference that makes the difference.

Ten out of ten successful people know what their values are and have the skills to live them!

1. Your values are your lifestyle priorities and preferences. You want more of what you value, of what’s important to you. You are intrinsically motivated (motivated from the inside-out) to keep on working towards goals that are in alignment with your values. Values alignment generates motivation and commitment. Of course you need to know what your values are in order to live them. My clients use My Motivation Code™, a values profiler which identifies and prioritizes up to 128 of your values.
2. Your values are the bridge between your inner desires and your outer reality. To turn what you desire (your vision or your set of goals) into reality, you must have skills that will help you get the goals you set. When you work in the area of your key natural talents, continually transforming your knowledge, skills, attitudes and business systems into strengths, you will be more fully engaged in your work, increasing further your motivation and commitment.

Summary: Mobilizing your talents plus your values in the direction of your vision is what REALLY Motivates you!

Contact our office to discover how you can step onto your unique ‘Inside Out” Path To Peak Performance & Profits