The Seven Principles of Workplace Inspiration July 09, 2009
Teaching your workforce to complete their tasks on time, and with a quality performance, comes first, but it can't come alone if you want your company's profits to climb. Finding ways to impart inspiration to them also is essential.
Terry Barber, creator of the "Inspiration Factor," and author of the book by the same name, has some ideas about that.
Barber focuses more on character than technique when it comes to business. He says corporate success is about right priorities more than bottom line. Barber points out seven principles of inspiration that he says will show you how innovation replaces inactivity, sluggishness transforms into service, and self-interest morphs into cooperation.
The book covers the following topics, which Barber says will give you enough inspiration to not only propel your own career, but capture the attention and motivation of those sleepy-eyed cubicle inmates your managers oversee:
• The direct correlation between a company's inspiration factor and market value.
• Why a successful leader MUST be vulnerable, transparent, and authentic.
• How to use your defining moment to start a business or champion a cause.
• How to identify and honor your inspirational hero.
• The economics of inspiration—how to acquire new business in a down economy.
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