“Through PCM you gain a lot of self awareness and learn how to proclaim a message of who you are as a church,” Ratzlaff says. “It helps us on a daily basis with our interactions with people of all styles. I love that it helps embrace each person’s diversity and gifts and helps you know how to make leadership choices and to honor everyone’s gift when moving a group forward.”
Ran across this article and thought we’d share. (Remember, we do training that increases self-efficacy, and we train other trainers how to do it too!) Efficacy vs. Esteem
In his book “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,” New York Times best-selling author Daniel Pink describes three core drivers of human performance: autonomy, mastery and purpose. Each of these is necessary, but not alone sufficient, to drive maximum performance. And these drivers look different for different personality types.
In a remote area in the Calabasas hills, there is a stone building, an outdoor amphitheater, a tree house and a garden. Children come here each day, ages preschool through 5th grade, to follow their passion. The lessons are based on what they want to learn that day. A simple question to a teacher like, “How does a robot work?” can turn into months of instruction and international Skyping to engineer and build a working robot, just to see how it is done.
The entitled PCM user seeks special treatment because of their personality, or expects others to tolerate them without accountability. “Hey, as a Rebel, I need a hands-off management style, so back off and leave me alone.” This is entitled, selfish behavior, and it’s a misuse of PCM.
Hiring and retaining talented people isn’t enough these days. If your skilled resources aren’t focused on the right things and motivated to give 100 percent, you might end up like a sports team with a big payroll, a bench of sidelined stars and a losing season. Read this article in the Wichita Eagle, published April [...]
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“So many times we send people to one or two-day seminars and they come back with good ideas but over time, and without follow-up, those lessons can be lost pretty rapidly,” Zalaznik says. “I like the fact that Next Element offers something more tangible…
Our friend, Tracy Weber shared this great TED video with us. It’s just too good, so we had to share it with you – so, grab your beverage of choice, take a break, and enjoy!!
Too often as supervisors, peers, managers and leaders we allow the “small stuff” go unaddressed until there becomes a negative situation that is obvious to everyone. Then, and only then, we are moved to act.
