What do social media and leadership have in common?

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 by Martha Forlines & Thad Green

Recap of today’s leader Quick Tip: Expand your leadership resource pool by taking “asking and listening” to social media, as well as to your employees.

Want to get your questions answered by leadership experts from around the world?


Or maybe you’d like to have dialog with a leadership expert, such as an author, or consultant, or experienced leader.


Would you like some helpful hints, employee motivation quotes, or creative leadership ideas?

It’s as easy as can be. Social media is the key. If you want to know, ASK!

Social media gives you quick access to people like us who are willing to share a wealth of leadership expertise.

Here are a couple of recent examples.

One manager wanted to have dialog with us around employee engagement— “Have leaders forgotten about the importance of engagement during the downturn in the economy?”

Another asked our advice about the various behavior style instruments available.

Get in touch with us on LinkedIn, FaceBook or Twitter.

Follow our posts for nuggets of leadership wisdom on employee motivation and performance, or how to boost employee morale, for example.

Dialog with us on employee job satisfaction, the value of an employee engagement survey, and other issues of interest.

Ask us questions about executive coaching, leadership training, and improving employee engagement.

If you want to know, ASK! Simply go to any of our social media links below.

Connect with us:

Follow us on Twitter!Follow us on Twitter

Become a Facebook fan!Become a fan

Read the MailChimp blogConnect on LinkedIn


All the best to your success,

Martha Forlines and Thad Green

Tags:
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Creating Ownership Can Be Tricky Business

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 by Martha Forlines & Thad Green

Recap Leader Quick Tip: There is a proven way to get employee ownership of projects and tasks

There are two common ways of doing this.


The first is to put on your thinking cap and figure out how to persuade the employee to take ownership.

Ask yourself questions like:Employee Task Ownership

  1. What does he want?
  2. What will excite him?
  3. What will entice him?

Then  ask yourself “How can I get buy in?”

It helps if you’ve tried this approach before.

Why? Because you know it takes a lot of time, and it never works very well.

This is good to know.

With the second approach, you don’t waste time guessing, you invest in the employee.

  1. Spell out what is involved in the project and the expected results
  2. Ask “What has to happen for you to take charge of this project and do a great job with it?”
  3. Listen for how motivated he will be with the project
  4. If his motivation is not strong, find out why, discuss and resolve

Remember, the conditions for motivation:

  1. “I can do the project.” (Belief-1)
  2. “Outcomes will be tied to my performance.” (Belief-2)
  3. “The outcomes will be satisfying if I get them.” (Belief-3)

If all three of these conditions are not met, motivation will suffer.

You can’t force ownership. It may be time to consider assigning the project to someone else.

If you’re looking for more information on creating ownership, see our new book, INSPIRING WOMEN: BECOMING Courageous, Wise Leaders.

If you’re interested in executive coaching, leadership consulting, leadership training, or boosting employee morale, call us at 678.576.5207.

Martha Forlines & Thad Green

Tags: , ,
Posted in Employee Performance | No Comments »