This is a list if the resources used to help with Motivating People
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Leadereview100: June 2010
We had a great conversation with Lynne Lancaster about her great new book - The M-factor: How the Millenial Generation is Rocking the Workplace. Check out the recording!
'The M-Factor with Lynne Lancaster' (podcast) 6/01/2010
We had a great conversation with Lynne Lancaster about her new book The M-Factor. It's a great guide to working with Millennial generation. Check it out!
'Strengths Based Leadership with Barry Conchie' (podcast) 4/01/2009
We had a great call with Barry Conchie, co-author of Strengths-Based Leadership. We talked about followers needs, employee engagement and trust.Barry expressed a desire for leaders to work on three things: 1) Be true to yourself – know your strengths and weaknesses and don’t buy into the myth of well-rounded leaders. 2) Build compensating teams – find people who are stronger than you at your weaknesses. 3) Attend to the four follower needs of trust, compassion, stability and hope.
Grappling with how to lead in this turbulent time? Strengths Based Leadership by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie will be a great resource for you. Helping you to better understand and motivate yourself and your team. Check out our conversation with Barry Conchie!
Trying to retain your best employees? 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner and James Harter is great - it defines what employees are looking for. The book is based on massive and very credible research by the Gallup Organization. Join us for a conversation with Rodd!
As you know, there are tangible and intangible ways to motivate people.
Enron provides an extreme example of motivating people with money and power. Brian Cruver’s book Anatomy of Greed: The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider gives us an insider's perspective of the upside and downside of this approach. To listen to our call with Brian, CLICK HERE.
John Byrne'sFast Company article “How to Lead Now – Getting extraordinary performance when you can’t pay for it” provides a model and anecdotes about using Pride – in oneself and one’s organization – as a powerful source of motivation. The article details some real life examples and the “pride” model that Jon Katzenbach describes in his book Why Pride Matters More Than Money.
