How To Inspire Employees in a Down Economy

Without commitment and engagement, every day feels like a forced march through quicksand. How can you--and your key talent--find a firm footing again?

The message is simple: Remind people that they're part of a culture and organization they can be proud of. Look for and create opportunities for good news and don't be shy about publicizing them. This is the time to re-sell employees, especially high-performers, on the company's value proposition.

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How To Inspire Employees in a Down Economy

Why Should Your Employees Like You?

Managing employees isn’t a popularity contest, but if your workers like and respect you as a person, your company’s bottom line is likely to show it.

Taking careful steps to build trust, respect and goodwill among employees doesn’t just make it more fun to go to work, it can also boost your bottom line. Research by Leadership IQ shows that “the overwhelming majority of employees are not giving 100 percent at work; 72 percent admit that they’re not giving their all,” says Mark Murphy, CEO of Atlanta-based research firm Leadership IQ and author of Hundred Percenters: Stop Making Your Employees Happy, Start Making Them Great, to be released in November by McGraw-Hill. “One big reason is because their boss is not leading them in a way that encourages them to give 100 percent.”

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Why Should Your Employees Like You?

Imagination and Resolution - the hallmarks of Sir Winston Churchill's wartime leadership

Jock Colville, Sir Winston Churchill's private secretary said of Great Britain's wartime leader: 'Whatever the PM's shortcomings may be, there is no doubt that he does provide guidance and purpose..... which, without him, would often be lost in the maze of inter-departmentalism or frittered away by caution and compromise. Moreover he has two qualities, imagination and resolution, which are conspicuously lacking among other ministers and among the chiefs of staff.'

Imagination and Resolution - the hallmarks of Sir Winston Churchill's wartime leadership