Engaging Employees with Recognition vs. Rewards (2:36)
Efforts often thought to engage can actually backfire and disengage leaders. Craig Ross explores how to keep employees engaged using non-monetary acknowledgements.
Engaging Employees with Recognition vs. Rewards (2:36)
Efforts often thought to engage can actually backfire and disengage leaders. Craig Ross explores how to keep employees engaged using non-monetary acknowledgements.
We are born with an innate desire and yearning to be recognized and to be first (See: Alford Adler).” It is because of this natural desire the idea of living to the contrary is painfully unnatural, atypical, unusual to a fault, and assuredly self destructive. To become that which we were born to be we must first discern greatness, then dwell within an environment that fosters greatness, and if it doesn’t exist, create it.
The endless benefits of greatness can be summed up into one word, extraordinary! Some, to their eventual demise and/or the assured demise of others around them, define great by their own individual effort and individual achievement, and/or by putting others down to create a false sense of greatness. A kind of fools paradise. Some will even go as far as creating false constructs and intentionally destroying real greatness to advance their position, bless their hearts!
Nevertheless, there is a “new definition of greatness.” Unlike false constructs of greatness, by definition, this form of greatness doesn’t insist on its own way. I liken it to the emerging global business philosophy of “Shared Value (see Harvard Business Review).”
Shared Value, in essence, embraces the Real Value of business and underscores, with out forgoing wealth, “no man need be an island.” Therefore the “New Definition of Greatness (See: Martin Luther King, Jr)” is affirmed. “We all can be great, because we all can serve. That’s the new definition of greatness.”
Accordingly, to unleash greatness one must fully recognize in order to become extraordinary we must first be willing to serve from no matter where we stand and at all cost. Otherwise were assuredly repeat the same mistakes in business and in our personal lives. Therefore ask yourself when can I serve today? What would that look like? Whom should I serve? And, am I willing to to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to serve and be all that I can be? Or, will I again acquiesce once again to a so-called-safe-space under the radar on the backside of the energy map (see: Pathways to Leadership(R))?
The choices are yours to make. PRESS FORWARD – RELEASE YOUR GREATNESS!
John: Thank you for sharing your thoughts on greatness and the questions about who we serve. Sometimes, we get wrapped up the tactics and need the healthy reminder that in the workplace, we add value by making things more efficient, productive and forward focused for those around us (our supervisors AND our colleagues). I look forward to adding more value because of your great questions!