Interesting Blog: Rhett Laubach

Ran across an interesting blog written by Rhett Laubach titled “Personal Leadership Insight ” has a lot of interesting ideas about leadership. One interesting post is the “Fostering Relationships ” post that uses the acronym “MATCH” to describe how to foster more meaningful relationships. An excerpt from the post is:

When leading and motivating your team, remember the following formula for what they need to get and stay motivated over the long haul…

M – Modeled… Behavior is influenced directly by what we see modeled by those around us.

A – Appreciated… Appreciation is statistically more important to employee performance than compensation.

T – Trained… People naturally want to perform their duties. However, they must be trained in a manner that is conducive for learning and retention. This is true in a wide swath of workplace competencies. From day-to-day technical duties to the creation and maintaining of culture.

C – Communicated with… Lack of clarity is the second highest reason why people leave their job (the first is they don’t like the people they work with, specifically their boss.)

H – Heartfully encouraged… There is a place and time for cynicism, but not in leadership and not today.

Everyone head over to Rhett’s blog and check it out.