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Inspire Greatness

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Inspire Greatness

How to Motivate Employees with a Simple, Repeatable, Scalable Process

Matt Holt Books,

15 min read
6 take-aways
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Motivate and engage your team members.

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Matt Tenney, a leadership training expert, introduces team leaders to a process they can use to motivate and engage their team members and improve their performance. He explains how his “algorithmic” process works as he urges team leaders to target employee needs, give frequent feedback, and base the training they seek for themselves on the feedback they receive. Tenney offers fascinating case studies and colorful anecdotes that illustrate his teamwork and leadership lessons.

Summary

Leadership is a science.

Most people regard leadership as an art and seldom think of it as a science. But leadership is a properly developed science with well-established rules and procedures. Knowledgeable practitioners understand they can apply a systematic, scientific approach to leadership so that it works for them in a predictable way.

Leaders can tap into a formal, rules-based scientific process to guide and help their employees. This process is the fruit of decades of careful, systematic leadership research into proven ways to inspire greatness by motivating employees to do their best work.

Make leaders responsible for engagement, target employee needs, provide regular feedback, and give managers training that addresses the feedback they receive.

Organizational leadership is a positive, rules-based phenomenon. Leaders who follow a scientific, repeatable, and scalable process can engage their team members and motivate them to achieve excellent results. To achieve that goal, consider implementing these steps.

  1. Systematically remind leaders that their main job is to “inspire greatness” among their team ...

About the Author

Frequent keynote speaker Matt Tenney is the head of PeopleThriver, a consultancy specializing in leadership development and employee engagement. He also wrote several other books including Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom.

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    A. C. 1 month ago
    good
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    S. W. 1 month ago
    Love this - reading it from a team member pov, everything mentioned rings so true