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8 Employee Behaviors Challenge Every Business Leader

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The leadership challenge here is to unlock their motivation to apply themselves to their work, or remove them from your startup before they have drained the drive and energy from the rest of the team. Effective team leadership, or leadership inside the box, is really only half the challenge that every entrepreneur faces.

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Ways To Make Your Startup Stand Out From The Rest

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Here’s how you can make your startup stand out from the rest of the crowd. When starting a new business, one thing quickly becomes clear – everyone else is doing it too! Have a Clear Ethos and Message. At the heart of every great business, there is some kind of message or ethos. Take Google’s famous example – “Do no evil.”

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Rebel Against Business Norms To Build Employee Engagement

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by Glenn Elliott and Debra Corey, coauthors of “ Build It: The Rebel Playbook for World-Class Employee Engagement “ Companies are innovating and changing at a rate previously unimagined. Engaged employees genuinely want the organization to succeed. Job design has a wide and often-overlooked impact on employees.

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8 Aspects Of Team Well-Being Drive Business Results

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Thus I was pleased to see a much more complete and broader perspective of employee support recommendations in a new book, “ Employees First! ” by Donna Cutting, who is a globally-recognized guru on employee culture and optimizing customer service. Emotional stability. Environmental safety.

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Do Your Employees Think Like Owners? 10 Tips For Building An Entrepreneurial Culture.

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by Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, authors of “ The Entrepreneurial Culture: 23 Ways to Engage and Empower Your Peopl e “ We all know today’s companies need to be more nimble, more innovative, and more entrepreneurial, and that this shift begins with employees. We were able to do so because of their dedicated employees.

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The Simplicity Cure: Why True Employee Engagement Lies In The Little Things

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by Todd Patkin, author of “ Finding Happiness “ We all know that employee engagement matters. Yet again and again, studies point to a pervasive lack of it (for instance, a recent Gallup report indicates that only 13 percent of employees worldwide are engaged), as well as the incredible costs of this problem.

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6 Ways To Make Your Solution Stand Out Above The Rest

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This also works well in getting a greater level of engagement and productivity from your own employees. Find a social or environmental issue where you can make an impact, and make that your differentiation. Remember, the days are gone when you could assume that “if we build it, they will come,” no matter how innovative your solution.

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