1. High-Impact Leadership: Train Managers to Inspire Staff to Optimal Performance
Move beyond motivation to inspiration by personalizing vision, mission, and values.
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2. Train your managers to use vision, mission and values to inspire their staff
Inspiration can be a nebulous topic. Make it more concrete by using vision, mission, and values to energize and re-engage staff.
Learning and Development leaders who are responsible for providing training as a part of a leadership development program.
Organizational trainers who are tasked with creating training content and/or delivering it to participants.
Anyone interested in learning how to inspire others.
Make the case for training managers on how to inspire.
Prepare to implement High-Impact Leadership - Inspiration training.
Deliver the High-Impact Leadership – Inspiration training to managers.
Evaluate the success of the training.
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3. The ability to inspire your team is crucial to retaining employees and keeping them motivated long term
Inspiration is more concrete and effective when you tie leadership behaviors to vision, mission, and values, and soars when leaders take employees’ personal vision, goals, and values into account.
If your organization does not have vision, mission, and values statements in place, please refer to the McLean & Company blueprint Refresh Organizational Vision, Mission, and Values to Improve Business Performance.
Motivating employees using rewards and incentives works…for a while. Leaders are looking for more long-term solutions to drive employee motivation.
When employees are inspired, they don’t need incentives.
Many leaders don’t even know where to begin when it comes to inspiring their staff. They think being a great leader is something you’re “born with” and feel that being inspirational is beyond their reach. Others simply don’t know effective methods to transition beyond motivating their teams to inspiring them.
While leadership training is the #1 priority for 2014*, many organizations still struggle to get adequate funding for training initiatives.
Source: McLean & Company’s HR Trends and Priorities for 2014
Leaders must be trained on the benefits of inspiration, how to use vision, mission, and values to inspire their staff, and how to identify and incorporate their staff’s personal vision, goals, and values into their work and development .
Thorough training on inspiration will enable managers to connect their staff with organizational vision, mission, and values, which realizes greater work group efficiency and effectiveness.
Inspiring leaders can increase retention, productivity, innovation, and employee dedication, as well as improved manager reputation.
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4. Guided Implementation
McLean & Company offers various levels of support to best suit your needs
Guided Implementation
“Our team knows that we need to fix a process, but we need assistance to determine where to focus. Some check-ins along the way would help keep us on track.”
DIY Toolkit
“Our team has already made this critical project a priority, and we have the time and capability, but some guidance along the way would be helpful.”
Workshop
“We need to hit the ground running and get this project kicked off immediately. Our team has the ability to take this over once we get a framework and strategy in place.”
Consulting
“Our team does not have the time or the knowledge to take this project on. We need assistance through the entirety of this project.”
Diagnostics and consistent frameworks used throughout all four options
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5. Use McLean & Company Manager Training Deck blueprints to deliver impactful training
This blueprint consists of a storyboard, a customizable training deck, and tools and templates.
Helps you gain stakeholder buy-in.
Gives you a high-level understanding of the training deck.
Includes tools to prepare for training and stakeholder buy-in.
Includes tools to measure and evaluate training.
Storyboard
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Deliverable in a one-day training session.
Pre-filled with content and activities.
Customizable to time constraints, legislative requirements, and organization-specific topics.
Training Deck
Help organize logistics and budget.
Assess behavioral change.
Help gain stakeholder buy-in.
Evaluate business impact.
Evaluate training delivery.
Evaluate participant learning.
Tools & Templates
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6. Sample Slides
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7. Source: McLean & Company, N=257
Being inspired by management is highly correlated with employees’ intent to stay with an organization
The engagement survey questions most highly correlated with intent to stay related to employees’ sense of inspiration by management. 3 1
For every 10% increase in this category, the employee’s intent to stay increases by 5.4%.
My manager inspires me to improve.
The executive leadership team inspires me. 2
My department’s executive leader inspires me.
For every 10% increase in this category, the employee’s intent to stay increases by 5.5%.
For every 10% increase in this category, the employee’s intent to stay increases by 5.1%.
Source: McLean & Company, N=257
Intention to stay was measured by the question “I expect to be at the organization a year from now”
*Note: All missing values were removed in order to make a “fair” comparison between the different questions and intention to stay.
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8. Leaders skilled at inspiration are able to get results without using “carrot and stick” rewards and punishments
Setting out to inspire employees without anything to anchor that concept to would be incredibly difficult. Leaders need something to ground their efforts to inspire.
Inspiration training can benefit the organization by increasing:
Employee engagement
Retention
Performance and productivity
Ability to attract top talent
Managerial reputation
Inspiration training gives leaders the power to:
Connect employees with the organizational vision, mission, and values.
Incorporate employees’ personal goals and values into the work they do.
Garner buy-in and agreement.
Coach and mentor to high performance.
Our data shows the importance of inspiration:
The engagement questions most highly correlated with intent to stay relate to employees’ sense of inspiration by management.
Rather than trying to manufacture motivation, an artful leader inspires exceptional work by calling upon others’ innate desire to make a difference. This inspiration inevitably fires people’s imaginations, which in turn triggers innovation.
– “The Eight Keys to Inspired Leadership,” Inspire! Imagine! Innovate!, 2008
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