If you're like most business leaders, you do appreciate succesful Individual Development Plans (IDPs). However, it is no secret that most individual plans fail. Given that most employees appreciate development and organizations need to grow pools of talent, we thought that it would be of great interest for you to read
this article and learn why most IDPs fail.
By reading this article you will find answers to the following questions:
What is the No. 1 reason most IDPs fail?
What is the most common mistake in the IDP process?
How can this process change?
What is the secret of a successful IDP?We know that emotions are contagious. Research by UC San Diego’s James Fowler and Harvard’s Nicholas Christakis has shown that happiness is contagious, for example. If you have a friend who is happy, the probability that you will be happier rises by 25%. We also know that behaviors are contagious.
We wanted to know how such “social contagion” affects leaders. In other words, we wanted to answer the following question:
If you’re a good leader, do you make the people around you more likely to become good leaders as well?
After reading
this article, you will be able to answer this question and gain an in-depth understanding of the way that you, as a great boss, impact not only the engagement of those working for you but also the engagement of the people working for them.
How does your organization measure
productivity? Whatever your measure is, odds are that it has something to do with how much
effort and
energy your people are willing to put in the job. In these difficult economic circumstances in which all organizations are called to survive – especially in Greece -, it is getting harder and harder to work with high levels of
energy and
passion; not to mention going the extra mile.
For leaders who have a long-term interest in productivity, there are two practical questions that need to be answered:
1. What is it that leaders do to create a
climate in which people go the
extra mile and
perform at remarkably
high levels?
2. What causes people to
put forth extraordinary discretionary efforts?
After reading
this article, you will be able to answer these questions and gain an in-depth understanding of the way that you, as a leader, can motivate your people to
perform to higher levels and go the extra mile.