If you were to grade your own bias how would you rate yourself on your impact professionally and individually? Can you make improvements? Many people probably believe they aren't prejudiced. We trust ourselves to be ethical and impartial, too. Inside the workplace, however, we likely believe we’re true decision makers, able to objectively determine a candidate or employee’s overall performance and accomplishing a rational and honest end.
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If you have a passion strong enough you can overcome any fear. What do you want to create? What are you here to give? What is your gift? What is the one thing you want to do better than anyone else on this planet? What is the one thing you could do every single day and not get sick of? What will you share with the world?
That is your passion.
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Just how would you feel about a medical doctor who harmed more patients than she or he helped? What about a law enforcement officer who committed more killings than he solved? Or an educator whose pupils got less intelligent as the time grew?
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And what if you found that these absurd outcomes were more the rule than the exception, that they were representative of most health practitioners, most law enforcement officers, and most educators? You'd be more than confused. You'd be infuriated. You'd foment that something hadn’t been done sooner. Right?
That is precisely what happens every day with managers and leaders who don’t grasp the how and why of motivating employees. Aside from familial and societal aspects productivity and profits must increase.
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Given this, why are we complacent when faced with information that suggests most managers are more likely to douse the conflagrations of employee enthusiasm than to provoke them? Why would you suppose we aren’t a little bit annoyed that our systems are more likely to exasperate extraordinary accomplishment than to nurture it?
Wrote Peter Drucker, “There are only two books that a publisher does not loose money on- cook books and books on motivation. The reason is they are purchased by people who can do neither." Drucker’s Criticism of the Behavioral Sciences and Motivational Theories
The above Drucker quote was resultant of the evolution of the Human Relations School during the 1930’s. The Hawthorne Studies by Mayo, Roethlisberger and Whitehead had expected to measure changes in the employees’ working environment and any effect on productivity. You may recall the research revealed any changes that were observed were caused by something as succinct as how the employees were treated.
On a consistent basis this is how productivity, diminishing returns and employee demotivation are fomented:
Creates a company environment of internal politics as the way to get promoted.
Promotes destructive internal competition between workers.
Changes the rules in the middle of a project.
Creates unclear expectations regarding employee's performance and results.
Creates a bureaucracy of forms and reports and unnecessary rules for individuals to follow.
Over manages (tells what to do, how to do, and controls) vs. leading and does not allow autonomy.
Withholds information that individuals need to perform their jobs, lying, and claiming it’s a misunderstanding.
Takes time from people by having them attend unproductive meetings.
Emphasizes criticism and negative feedback vs. recognition and positive feedback.
Tolerates poor performance of others so that high performing people feel taken advantage of.
Treats people unfairly and show favoritism to a select few.
Under utilizes the capabilities of people and inhibits their personal growth
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So, what’s the secret of overcoming fear?
The way we think and feel about our self, including our beliefs and expectations about what is possible for us, determines everything that happens to us.
When we change the quality of our thinking, we change the quality of our life, sometimes instantly. Just as positive words can make someone smile or a well-timed humorous quote can make someone laugh, our thoughts react to the world in real-time.
We have complete control over only one thing in the universe — our thinking – and that’s where motivational quotes come in!
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It’s time to listen to our instincts and follow our intuition.
I believe my intuition has spoken to me many times long before my analytical mind had a chance to notice the signs or pick up on the subtle signals that must have been swirling about me.
Have you ever had something like this happen to you?
Maybe it wasn't as dramatic as my thinking it and then it appeared, but I'm sure you've had “gut reactions” or intuitive feelings that have guided your decisions — or should have.
Intuition isn't a skill just within the purview of mystics. We all possess it, and it is a well-researched phenomenon revealing that our brains have an amazing ability to pick up on patterns and respond to them in a nanosecond in the form of intuitive insights.
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