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Engage Your Team!
by Lee J. Colan, Ph.D.
Regardless of current economic trends, the labor shortage is still alive and well. The labor supply will continue to tighten resulting in a shortage of up to 10 million jobs in the not too distant future. Enter the Talent War!
Couple this shortage with technology advancements nearing the speed of light, there are no sustainable competitive advantages anymore... except for your people. Engaging the hearts and minds of your team is the only sustainable advantage left in today's hyper-competitive world.
The bottom line - Leaders must engage their teams to win the talent war! It's the only winning strategy to get and keep your people.
 Ignite Passionate Performance in your team!!!
Whether you lead a family, work team or community group, elevating your
leadership is as easy as 1, 2, 3!
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Passionate Performance is achieved when a team is fully engaged – when they demonstrate a strong, sustained intellectual and emotional connection to their work.
You will know when your team is demonstrating Passionate Performance because they will feel the enthusiasm and you will see the results. Your team will have more fun creating better results. They will be fully present at work, in the moment, in the flow. They will perform at higher levels and be motivated to do more. They will feel like kids again – a time when they had fun doing their very best at whatever they were engaged in. In short, their work will feel like play.
Can you remember a situation where you felt like this? Maybe it was a special project where everything came together perfectly. Or a team you were on where everyone did what was best for the team, creating a rare synergy. Or a certain cause you volunteered for where you felt like the best of your skills and talents flowed naturally to make a real difference. Most of us can remember a situation like this because it was such a unique experience and left us with such a special feeling. It may have been a lot of work, but we most frequently describe it as "fun." That's because our minds and hearts were fully engaged.
What does Passionate Performance look like? How will you know when your team is giving it? First, look for signs of the big payoff from Passionate Performance: discretionary effort – people choosing to do more for us. You'll know your team is giving discretionary effort when they:
- choose to work late to complete a project;
- ask how they can better serve another team member or function;
- inquire about how their actions affect another function or the customer;
- make a connection between their decisions and the organization's mission;
- treat the organization's resources like their own;
- initiate improvements in work methods;
- look beyond their own roles for improvement opportunities; and
- pursue self-development on their own time.
If you want more of these behaviors on your team, take the first step now... order the rapid-read, how-to book on engagement. Click here to order.
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