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Nearly 27 percent of financial executives in a recent survey from Robert Half Management Resources said that organizations needed to put a greater emphasis on “maintaining employee  morale.” Why? Highly engaged and motivated workers just do a lot better work. [1]

That just makes sense, right? The more you give, the more you get; what goes around comes around? This kind of give-to-get philosophy is grounds for cynicism.

Integrity is a bottom line ingredient for any organization-wide leadership initiative. You actually have to care about employees if you want their respect – - and with it their engagement. Any thing less and they smell it. There is something about that self-absorbed greed motive that the practitioners never see.

Enjoy workers, have fun with them, and humbly live with them at their level. When they know they are actually cared for (it can’t be faked), they will put out some kind of incredible.  In such a chipper world, they will put out as much as we let them.

What kind of a squeeze will it be? A happy hug… or like getting blood out of a stone?

Its all a matter of what we choose to give – - or get!

Source:

[1] “CFOs Are the Canary in the Coal Mine When It Comes to Workforce Morale” John Hollon March 25th, 2010 http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/

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