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Recognize Success

Guest post by: Eric Douglas

Article Overview: To inspire innovation in your organization a leader must recognize the success of others.

Recognize Success

More than 40 percent of the leaders in our surveys say they spend too little time working with individuals to help them unlock their creative energies. Asking yourself, "Have I found my own creative flow? Am I helping other people find their creative flow?”

Coaching, empowerment, and praise inspire flow. Micromanagement interferes with creative flow. To encourage flow, good managers need to make sure people are recognized early on for their success. Every success should be recognized in some way, no matter how small. Rewards and praise should be distributed generously to all who were involved. At the same time, a special effort should be made to celebrate and recognize people who made special contributions. I have a 10 to 1 rule about the ratio between positive feedback and "constructive" feedback. People need to hear ten times the amount of positive feedback than negative. Otherwise, they simply will not - or cannot - hear the constructive feedback. The "constructive" part of the feedback will be lost. By focusing on praise and encouragement, you can help prepare people for the day when they need to hear the constructive feedback.

Developing professionally is encouraged by rewarding success. As shown in Chapter 3 of Leading at Light Speed, the Performance Development Life Cycle illustrates the specific points in an individual's development. An important step is creating an Individual Development Plan, in which you write down exactly what your career goals are and how you need to prepare yourself - the kinds of training, mentoring, job shadowing, and feedback you need. Encouraging creative flow means giving people this opportunity to reflect on and articulate their career aspirations - and then share their IDPs with the people who can help them get there.

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