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Quiz: What Motivates You?
Through research with thousands of employees and leaders, we’ve discovered that there are five major motivations that drive people’s actions at work; Achievement, Power, Affiliation, Security, and Adventure. So take the test below to discover what motivates you.
If You Want To Be More Charismatic, Stop Saying This Word
If you want to be more charismatic, one of your primary tasks is to make the people listening to you feel absolutely terrific. Now ask yourself, to make the people around you feel great, "Should I talk more about myself or more about them?"
Referent Power
Referent power is a type of social power that is obtained in a person over time because they have admirable qualities, attitudes, skills, and a solid reputation. A person with referent power has influence because they are admired, respected, or even idolized. Learn more and take the power quiz!Career Growth Or Stalled Progress
It’s essential for today’s employers to have a reputation as a great place for employees to experience career growth. The more a company fosters career growth for its people, the more it will attract and recruit top talent, retain highly engaged employees, build its own succession plans, and employ a highly skilled workforce. Unfortunately, a new study of 3,577 employees reveals that the vast majority of employees do not think that their company is fostering employees’ career growth.Coercive Power
Coercive power is a type of threatening power. Coercive power is, by definition, the ability of someone or some group to control or influence others through the use of threats, punishment, or physical force. Learn more and take the power quiz!The Peter Principle
The Peter Principle is a concept that was formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in the 1969 book The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong. It is a principle of organizational management that basically states that employees within a hierarchical organization tend to be promoted and promoted, until they reach the point where they no longer have the skills necessary for the role that they are assigned, and are no longer competent.Categories:
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