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Four Focus Areas in Depth |
Focus Area 1: Inspire action that is meaningful, purposeful and practical
When employees feel connected to a greater purpose, they are inspired to handle day-to-day tasks that produce meaningful accomplishments. Using tools that allow people to stay focused on short, medium and long-term outcomes can help produce sustained, meaningful results.
Inspiring Employees: Bringing it Down to a Personal Level
What inspires you is, more than likely, what inspires your employees. What set of questions could you ask yourself (and others) to determine the level of inspiration in your day-to-day work and/or in others' work? How could you answer these for yourself and others and in what format so that it can be communicated and used to clarify objectives and connect others?
How does my work provide a sense of purpose?
How does this "sense of purpose" inspire my daily actions?
What gives my work meaning?
If sense of purpose or meaning is lost, what can I do to regain it?
Ideas to Connect Employees to Purpose and Meaning
Work Plan Tips
- Agree on a format.
- Discuss with the employee what a successful outcome is for each goal until there is understanding.
- Avoid telling the employee how to do it. Assume the employee
possesses the expertise. Do discuss with the employee procedural aspects that
may impact results.
- Agree on when and how you will obtain follow-up.
Annual and/or Quarterly Work Plan
Work plans provide targets for what you want to accomplish in a given period of time. A project plan covers multiple areas of work such as:
- Organizational goals that include continued and new projects.
- Personal development goals.
- Prioritized items aligned with organization.
- Measurable, objective targets for each term.
- Reoccurring unit objectives.
- Goals designed to stretch you.
Quarterly reviews assess the milestones and allow for adapting the annual plan to reflect progress and current issues that arose impacting the stated goals.
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Quarterly Work Plan Example
- How might it look?
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