I’ve done a series of posts now on topics from Patrick Lencioni’s great book, The Three Signs Of A Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees). In the previous post, I mentioned two ways that an employee can feel the problems associated with one of the key signs: irrelevance. But I only explained one of them; that your coworkers need to know how their work contributes to the overall organization. The better they understand that, the less likely they’ll feel irrelevant.
The other side of the irrelevance question relates to the personal side. To whom do your teammates matter? We’re personal beings, with a healthy drive to know and be known. Your team needs to be individually known by the [click to continue…]
It seems more and more I read where people are speaking about their limitations in the workplace. The economic downturn has caused us to cut back, hunker down, retrench, re-evaluate, re-strategize and review just about 
everything. But there are several things we can do to influence our situations. As John Maxwell has so aptly said, “Leadership is influence.” So let’s discuss one of the ways you can exercise positive leadership to influence your workplace for the better.
It’s a simple thing, but sometimes the simple things are most easily overlooked. Do you know your co-workers? In Patrick Lencioni’s The Three Signs of a Miserable Job, he identified one of the signs, the one the leader had the most control over, as anonymity. Workers want to be known. Do you know about your teammates’ family members, interests and hobbies. Is what they’re doing away from the office important to you? Do you know if their parents are alive or not? Do they have siblings? Do you know what they did before they came to work for you? [click to continue…]
