ACTIVATING YOUR ORGANIZATION’S AMBITION

1. ACTIVATING YOUR ORGANIZATION’S AMBITION

2. Your objective is to improve the performance of your human capital.

3. Your seven options:

4. Your seven options: • Hire higher performing employees

5. Your seven options: • Hire higher performing employees • Conduct training and education programs

6. Your seven options: • Hire higher performing employees • Conduct training and education programs • Coach and mentor

7. Your seven options: • Hire higher performing employees • Conduct training and education programs • Coach and mentor • Provide special assignments

8. Your seven options: • Hire higher performing employees • Conduct training and education programs • Coach and mentor • Provide special assignments • Increase external motivation and incentives

9. Your seven options: • Hire higher performing employees • Conduct training and education programs • Coach and mentor • Provide special assignments • Increase external motivation and incentives • Implement new practices, processes and systems

10. Your seven options: • Hire higher performing employees • Conduct training and education programs • Coach and mentor • Provide special assignments • Increase external motivation and incentives • Implement new practices, processes and systems • Enable self-motivated and -directed development

11. Your seven options: • Hire higher performing employees • Conduct training and education programs • Coach and mentor • Provide special assignments • Increase external motivation and incentives • Implement new practices, processes and systems • Enable self-motivated and -directed development Consider which options provide the longest lasting value,

12. Your seven options: • Hire higher performing employees • Conduct training and education programs • Coach and mentor • Provide special assignments • Increase external motivation and incentives • Implement new practices, processes and systems • Enable self-motivated and -directed development Consider which options provide the longest lasting value, boost retention,

13. Your seven options: • Hire higher performing employees • Conduct training and education programs • Coach and mentor • Provide special assignments • Increase external motivation and incentives • Implement new practices, processes and systems • Enable self-motivated and -directed development Consider which options provide the longest lasting value, boost retention, are the least expensive,

14. Your seven options: • Hire higher performing employees • Conduct training and education programs • Coach and mentor • Provide special assignments • Increase external motivation and incentives • Implement new practices, processes and systems • Enable self-motivated and -directed development Consider which options provide the longest lasting value, boost retention, are the least expensive, are the least disruptive,

15. Your seven options: • Hire higher performing employees • Conduct training and education programs • Coach and mentor • Provide special assignments • Increase external motivation and incentives • Implement new practices, processes and systems • Enable self-motivated and -directed development Consider which options provide the longest lasting value, boost retention, are the least expensive, are the least disruptive, and promote employee engagement.

16. Enable self-directed development.

17. How?

18. How do you motivate and enable your employees to improve their own skills, knowledge, attitude or behavior?

19. Follow the eight principles of Activating Your Ambition™.

20. Principle One: Awareness – Make them aware of their need to develop. N O I T I B M A

21. People don’t improve if they don’t know what to improve. N O I T I B M A

22. Principle Two: Motivation – Help them get excited about developing themselves. N O I T I B M A

23. If they can’t visualize the benefits of their self-development, they won’t buy-in. N O I T I B M A

24. Principle Three: Belief – Develop their confidence that they can achieve their ambition. N O I T I B M A

25. Help them plan how they will overcome the obstacles that will confront them. N O I T I B M A

26. Principle Four: Incremental steps – Have them craft a written plan of actions and milestones that are based on small steps. N O I T I B M A

27. They need easily started actions . . . N O I T I B M A

28. . . . which move them forward gradually minimizing their brain’s built-in resistance to change. N O I T I B M A

29. Principle Five: Time & Energy – Help them assess the time and energy that their development will require. N O I T I B M A

30. Help them determine how they can best create the time and energy that they will need. N O I T I B M A

31. Principle Six: Initiation – Have them start their self-development journey under the optimal circumstances. N O I T I B M A

32. Help them plan around any events, projects, holidays or other factors. N O I T I B M A

33. Principle Seven: Others – Involve others in their journey. N O I T I B M A

34. Help them identify others who can provide them with insight, encouragement, resources and accountability. N O I T I B M A

35. Principle Eight: Normalcy – Apply their new behavior until it is a habit. N O I T I B M A

36. Provide opportunities to practice their new behavior until it is routine. N O I T I B M A

37. Enable these eight principles and watch the performance of your human capital take off. N O I T I B M A

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