Business Applications To Leadership Settings
Although building a strong, dynamic company culture under the right leadership can be essential to a company’s success (as seen with iconic cases like Zappos and Google), much insight drawn from business settings can be transferrable to other collaborative settings as well. A recent Fast Company blogpost titled “The Employee-Motivation Checklist” provides a comprehensive set of practical thoughtful advice that, while intended to advise on how to strengthen employee-management relations, can also have similar transformative effects when applied by leaders in any type of setting. Zavinsky (author of the blog post, as well as the book Start at the End) talks about how effective personal fulfillment is as an incentive to employees. He emphasizes the importance of providing adequate developmental and professional support to employees, and building a relationship with them through trust and transparency. As an individual who was very involved in community leadership and volunteer activities and is very interested in how leaders can best bring out the potential of the people they work with, I saw straight away that this advice would be useful within environments where individuals could gain leadership experience.