Give your staff a “second paycheck”
So many of us find ourselves explaining to others why we work in the nonprofit sector. There’s a higher purpose that gets us out of bed every morning and keeps us at the desk well after five. So you can imagine my curiosity when I read James Robbins’ chapter on giving your staff a “second paycheck” in his book, Nine Minutes on Monday: The Quick and Easy Way to Go from Manager to Leader herunterladen.
Robbins’ model “is founded on nine key questions to ask yourself each Monday morning during your leadership planning time. Each question is tied to one of the nine drivers of employee engagement and will help you create small actionable goals that will inspire and motivate your staff.”
In my CausePlanet interview with Robbins, I asked him about “minute four” and the most important minute out of the total nine minutes he recommends each Monday prospekt herunterladen.
CP: In minute four, you talk about giving your staff a “second paycheck” and the positive results of connecting people with purpose. Could you give our readers an example of connecting someone to purpose?
JR: I was recently doing a Nine Minutes workshop for a boutique men’s clothing store wie kann ich google chrome herunterladen. I was asking them to brainstorm for a moment on the question, “Whom do we serve?” When I asked for their answers, one salesman said the word, “clients.” While
this is true, there is no compelling purpose here. Then one of the salespeople told a story about how he had recently sold a new suit to a man who had to deliver a eulogy at his father’s funeral. The salesman made a follow-up call to see how the funeral had gone zlm schadeformulier downloaden. The man responded by saying it went well and the new suit had made him feel confident and he was grateful for that. This is a great story because it gives the client a face and shows how selling a suit can help someone feel confident at his father’s funeral. There is power in this story but only if the rest of the staff hears this. I encouraged them to pass along stories like these to help employees connect purpose to pay youtube video herunterladen macbook. So stories are one of the most powerful ways to help people connect to purpose. Find great stories about how what you do makes a difference and then find appropriate ways to get them passed on to your staff.
CP: If there could be only one minute on Monday dedicated to this topic, which one would you choose as most important for managers herunterladen?
JR: That’s a tough question. If I could only pick one, it would be minute nine: the need for a model to follow. Our examples as leaders do more to dictate our success than anything else microsoft internet explorer 11 kostenlos downloaden. If we truly want people to follow us, engage their
talents and work with all their heart, then we have to be exemplary leaders. I’m not talking about management ability here either. This goes beyond the role and extends to who you are as a person: how you treat people, how hard you work, whether or not you take responsibility for your mistakes, humility and courage pokemon bilder kostenlos downloaden. Like it or not, there is a certain morality attached to leadership and we have to be that part. A leader’s example always has been and always will be paramount when it comes to him/her cultivating a following. The next most important minute is number one: caring for your people.
Consider minute nine, are you creating a model to follow herunterladen? How do you demonstrate humility, responsibility, a strong work ethic?
CausePlanet members: Don’t forget to register for our next live author interview with Tom Wolff, who trains and consults in collaborative solutions. We’ll discuss the essential principles he explores in his book The Power of Collaborative Solutions: Six Principles and Effective Tools for Building Healthy Communities on Thursday, August 22 at 11 a.m musik zum herunterladen legal. CST.
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