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Leadership and Motivation: Creating the Intrapreneur
September 14, 2008 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Leadership, Motivation, People Issues
Leadership and Motivation: Creating the Intrapreneur
By Victoria C. DePaul
Leaders and managers struggle on a daily basis to find ways to increase productivity and therefore profits. The solution that they seek is to create a work environment based on Intrapreneurship.
The intrapreneur is an employee who works as an entrepreneur within a business or organization. To recognize an intrapreneur in action look for enthusiasm, commitment, self-motivated, and risk-taking. Leaders and managers have the unique opportunity to assist employees in becoming intrapreneurs by establishing organizational cultures where innovation, flexibility and tenacity abound. Intrapreneurship can only exist within companies that grow positive energy. And what is this energy?
Life is about energy. It runs on energy; it seeks energy; it transforms energy. Your business or department is no exception. Any group of people, whether it is a business, a family, a community or a nation, is a complex energy system. The basic unit of power of the energy system is the individual. Your organizational results are the collective energies of your employees.
As are most energies, the human energies are a polarity of negative and positive. The positive energies that grow your business include commitment, initiative, determination, intelligence, creativity, support, passion, enthusiasm, collaboration and confidence. The negative energies that erode your business include indifference, resentment, irresponsibility, sabotage, blame, rebellion, inattention, anxiety and more.
The primary cause of conflicts, problems and reduced production is the amount of negative energy that exists within the organization. This negative energy manifests itself as absenteeism, low morale, lack of cooperation, poor communications, avoidable mistakes, high employee turnover and increased client dissatisfaction. Organizations in negative energy will often have managers and leaders who operate from a Dictator mentality – my way or the highway. Or perhaps it will show up as Victim mentality in your employees– that’s not my job.
Current business models fail to produce positive results because they fail to understand the pervasive, underlying motivation of every person– the need to experience greater levels of positive energy. The failure of leaders to understand this basic, innate motivation of every person keeps businesses in a cycle of inefficiency and less than stellar results. Organizations that foster a climate where an employee can operate as an intrapreneur will see an increase in personal initiative, effort and resourcefulness.
All of your goals can be understood in terms of energy and can only be achieved through improved operation of teams and organizations. Leaders seek to improve the operations, interpersonal relationships, and output of organizations, in this case, human energy systems. Leaders desire more effective and efficient operations, more production in quantity and quality, fewer problems and internal conflicts, greater client satisfaction and increased profitability.
Every person in your organization is an energy system, always generating energies of many kinds: mental, emotional, communicative, behavioral, and relational to others. Achieving your goals depends on the performance of the people in your organization. Their performance depends on the energies that they are generating within themselves and outputting to others and the organization. Your success depends on your ability to increase intrapreneurship within individuals and teams. To do so you must create a work environment that encourages empowerment, ingenuity, and accountability. You must become an Energytic Leader– one who is able to release the human potential that lies dormant in each individual and within organizations.
Victoria DePaul has more than two decades of human resources experience. She is the author of Creating the Intrapreneur: The Search for Leadership Excellence and the founder and CEO of Gallellio Galileo Business & Learning Consultants, LLC. DePaul and her two teenage sons reside in Worcester, Massachusetts. Please visit www.GalileoConsultants.com.
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