Category: Employee Motivation

by Patty Azzarello

Commitments, Deadlines & Employee Motivation



This month’s webinar was on the topic of Motivation, Commitments and Deadlines.

If you missed it, you can download the recording.

motivation deadlines

This is a very useful webinar to download if you want to:

  • Get your team executing better, and more consistently
  • Become more comfortable discussing and sticking to deadlines
  • Learn how to enforce consequences without de-motivating people
  • Choose the right measures that make success and failure very clear
  • Have the right (non-emotional) conversations when expections are not met

Why organizations don’t deliver on time

The simple truth is that many organizations don’t deliver on time because there are no consequences for not delivering on time. Read More

by Patty Azzarello

Imagined power vs. Real power and respect


real or imagined power

People often ask me if it was hard for me to go from running really large organizations to having my own (implied — “much smaller”) company.

This was never an issue for me because I always maintained a psychological distance between the power of my role, (managing a $1B+ global business, multi-hundred-milion dollar budget, and thousands of people) and my own personal power. Read More

by Patty Azzarello

What your employees need to hear from you


regular updates
Last week I wrote about the importance of information sharing across an organization. If you missed it it’s a very important idea.

This week I want to share one more example, specifically about an executive’s responsibility to share information with the team — and the value of doing so. Read More

by Patty Azzarello

Making Sense of Employee Performance Ranking

Everyone’s exceptional!

Question: “How do you deal with people and teams who are average performers but who rate themselves as exceptional?”

This question came up on our last Member coaching hour call and I decided to write about it.

The rating scale

Since the call I’ve dug out the performance rating definitions I created to add to whatever corporate ones existed. Read More

by Patty Azzarello

Want more progress from your team? Change Communicating into Conversation

Awhile back I wrote an article in my General Manager series called “Why people don’t do what you say”.

It  had 10 steps for improving how you communicate with your organization.

Just as a quick summary, here are the 10 points:

1. Read More

by Patty Azzarello

Consensus or Command? Neither works!

The wrong terms

Throughout my whole career I kept hearing discussions about consensus vs. command and they always rubbed me the wrong way…

What actually works was never such a mystery to me.

The problem is that people would talk about consensus or command as the only two choices for management style. Read More

by Patty Azzarello

Leading Business Transformation

The Webinar:

This month’s Business Leaders’ webinar was on

LEADING BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION

If you missed it you can
Download the Podcast
or
Download the whole Webinar
(which includes the presentation, and useful worksheets and templates.)
(more information below)

Why initiatives fail

Over the past year, my work with clients has focused me on the part of business that is about getting your organization to execute. Read More

by Patty Azzarello

Leading People in Business

The Webinar:

This month’s Business Leaders’ webinar was on Leading People in Business.

If you missed it you can download the podcast or the whole webinar which includes the presentation, and useful worksheets and templates.
(more information below)

Here is what we talked about:

Business Results

Driving business results, leading change, innovating, and generally moving a business forward requires leading people. Read More

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