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everalan
RE: Motivating Slackers |Leila's House of Corrections
usefull for me
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McColl
RE: Motivating Slackers |Leila's House of Corrections
I tried to coach my innept boss as I became disengaged with my work situation. I felt unsupported and unrecognized for my contributions. As time, cutbacks and lack of vision slowly erroded of my contract, work duties, etc., my boss stood there "stunned like a deer in the headlights". As things eroded around me I dug in and decided I needed to advocate for myself, since my union was utterly useless when it came to doing that for contract employess. It finally came to a point when every morning I would drive to work only to have a compulsion to drive right on past. When I didin't care anymore I wrote my boss a letter outlining why his workplace was falling appart and staff morale was teetering on mutiny. The result? You guessed it...deer in the lights! That's government for you!
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LeilaBT
RE: Motivating Slackers |Leila's House of Corrections
Here's the hope that government can, will, and wants to change, eh, McColl?
I'm hoping some of the professional leadership President Obama uses will influence the government to put *how* we get things done closer to the top of the training list.
I'd love to be able to share some of my ideas with those doing professional development for *our* leaders.
Thanks for the post,
Leila Bulling Towne
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LeilaBT
RE: Motivating Slackers |Leila's House of Corrections
Hi everalan,
Thanks for the post. Glad you found the video useful.
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t7b
RE: Motivating Slackers |Leila's House of Corrections
Thanks for the post
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Lawnwaru
RE: Motivating Slackers |Leila's House of Corrections
Thanks for the educative writeup. The problem is not with coaching the slackers, but managing the mischief makers among them. Those who are not ready to change, generally lazy and the ones that find the environment itself demotivating. They tender to spoil others with their bad influence.
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LeilaBT
RE: Motivating Slackers |Leila's House of Corrections
Hi Lawnwaru,
You start by telling those employees which behaviors are acceptable (and why) and which ones aren't (and why). Give examples. You have to call them on it.
If you say nothing, people learn to do the same things, again and again. No news often is misunderstood as good news: I must be doing well because, well, my manager never tells me otherwise.
If you start to point out behaviors that don't work, are distracting, ineffective, etc., it's going to take time for people to change, and it will also take your time as you remind them and coach them.
If you tell me once that when I do X it doesn't help as much as Y, I'll forget. If you give me feedback once a week and explain what I need to do differently, ask for commitment, ask what you can do to help, explain how my actions are hurting the business, then you will begin to change my behaviors . . . or you will see that I need to be managed out.
Regards from San Francisco,
Leila
Leila Bulling Towne
Executive Coach & Organizational Development Consultant
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JO BO
RE: Motivating Slackers |Leila's House of Corrections
Lawnwaru; You must have worked in the same type of environment that I used to. Lazy,mischief makers who are sly enough to get managers to believe that they are the valuable employees in the organization by downgrading hardworking co workers. Brown nosing their managers so they are able to flaunt any and all rules the company may have. Morale ( for those engaged workers) could never take a greater hit than for that type of atmosphere to be allowed to exist. Since I left for that reason, 16 more have also done so. This is at a company that only has 42 full time employees. Unfortunately the slackers are prospering along as usual because those in charge will never lose the blinders they have on.












































