...A Plan for Positive Influence James Andrews LDR/531 August 22, 2012 Alfredia Martin A Plan for Positive Influence This papers strategy is to creating a plan for positive influence and what it will take to apply the plan for the team in a business setting. A plan will be showed that would increase the team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance. To evaluate how attitudes and emotions influence behaviors, this discussion will discuss attitudes and job satisfaction. The discussion will start by describing what attitudes are and how to effectively deal with attitudes. Attitudes An attitude is described as the way that a person or thing feels about another person or thing, whether it is in a positive or negative way. According to University of Phoenix, Leadership in Organizations; “attitudes are evaluative statements, either favorable or unfavorable, concerning objects, people, or events.” It determines how employee feels about either a person or thing. (University of Phoenix, 2008) Attitudes can be very complicated when an individual displays how he or she is feeling. An employee can ask someone how he or she feels about another employee, place or thing and, the individual will gladly give a response, but when one go farther and ask why he or she feels that way. Then it will go deeper in depth-on answering why the employee feels that way. This occurs when attitudes become more complicated but at the same time can team to effectively understanding each other...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence LDR 531 January 10, 2011 Creating a Plan for Positive Influence In the 21st Century, America has shifted from individual using his or her skills to combining different employees to a group to get more work production. This is a fairly new process to many human resource departments in the United States. Companies and organizations are continuingly seeking multiple ways to increase a team motivation, satisfaction, and performance. The difficult segment of the process is dealing with human different behaviors, such as personalities, emotions, attitudes, and values. This paper will outline a positive plan that businesses will be able to implement to increase their teams production and happiness. Motivation Team motivation is one the most important elements that could help teams succeed. Industrial psychologist Fredrick Herzberg discovered during his motivational theory research that true motivators are achievement, recognition, responsibility, and advancement. To increase motivation within a team setting, these areas are required to be addressed: 1. Achievement- Ensure that each member sees his or her value of their work and contributions that help benefit the company. Allow the feedback from the clients or customer be known to the team for exceptional performance or service 2. Recognition- Managers should take time out of work schedule to congratulate and praise employees to for jobs well done. 3. Responsibility- Create...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence LDR/531 October 1, 2012 Christine Pettiford Lynette Grizelle The summer has ended and it is time to start planning for the 2013 summer program. With the planning on the way the center has hired four more team players to help run the center and help with the summer program plans. The team members are: Christine (the head coordinator), Dani (an employee for three years and has helped with the program for the past two years and she is very open minded to change), Mike (is new to the center and ex military with a strong over powering tone), Fran (is new and one of the youngest team members and has worked for the YMCA in the past with their summer program), Vaughen (is new and has an follow the leader attitude), and the last new hire is Ebony (she has a take control attitude and is very pushy). This is the team that is going to help plan for 2013 summer program at the center. They have been given a year to have it all planned out from the programs, cost, events, field trips, transportation, and so on. But as they go into their first meeting there is already tension in the air with some of the team members. Christine has notices that there are some personalities that are trying to overpower others. It is causing attitudes to run high and emotions to carry over into the work place. The best way to help with this is to first call a team meeting to talk about the issues at hand. In the meeting the main topics that need to be addressed would...
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...Professional Development Plan LDR/531 March 2, 2015 Lynette Hurst Professional Development Plan Planning a detailed strategy to form an action plan in regard to achieving a preferred goals and objectives within an organization is known as a professional development plan. Professional development plans consist of the goals, skills, and competency essential for the organization to succeed organizational development and growth. Managers create the development plan by working carefully with employees and identifying his or her skills associated with the goals and objectives established by the organization. In the work environment, the DiSC assessment is important in the process of developing an effective professional plan. In this assignment the DiSC, The Platinum Rule divides behavioral preferences into four basic styles known as DiSC in regard to, dominance, interactive, steadiness, and cautious style (Alessandra, N.D). Managers can use the assessments of each team member for mentoring, performance development plans and team building, as well as conflict resolution. This week's assignment consists of creating a Professional Development Plan to address the characteristics of individual Learning Team C members both individually and as a group and the ability to lead them. Team C members are Michael Fogoros, Dustin Jorah, Carlos Peralta and Eric Scott. Individual members DiSC assessment Learning Team...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence Creating a Plan for Positive Influence Kirk Carlson LDR/531 Creating a Plan for Positive Influence A team has been assigned to complete a television show series scheduled to air on a major network next year. The team has one year to complete the television show pilot and the first season of the show. The team was composed of producers, writers, videographers, editors, and staff coordinators. The team has been tasked with developing a plan designed to motivate, satisfy, and increase performance within the group assigned to create the show. The team needs to take into consideration individual behaviors, such as values, attitudes, emotions, and personalities. The author of this paper was tasked with writing the plan that will create a positive influence within the team that will be creating the television show. Creating a plan for Positive Influence The three main areas that need to be focused when creating a plan of positive influence are satisfaction, motivation, and performance. The employees need to work in an environment that satisfies their basic needs for employment. The employees need to be properly motivated to work on a project for an extended period. The main result that the employer is looking for is performance of the employees who produces a completed television series. Satisfaction Holland (2011) stated, “Job satisfaction is known to be a significant attitudinal variable associated with employee commitment in both...
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...Creating a Plan R. Butler LDR/531 March 11, 2013 Robert Sell Creating a Plan The objective is to create a plan for positive influence may be applied to any type of a business plan or setting that will increase a team or group’s motivation, performance, and satisfaction with the organization. The plan will be centered on specific attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values that members of the team or group can collaborate with each other on how the differences influences each member’s behavior in a business setting. A business setting has three essential factors that a group or team need to increase productivity in a business environment. The leader in the team setting has must make certain steps that will inspire members or the team or group to become motivated to complete the task. One difficult part of the process is able to deal with different human behavior personalities, values, emotions, and attitudes. Motivation is important to the team or groups, the element that will help the group to succeed. Achievement, recognition, responsibility and advancement and establishing a strong relationship with each member will also help to increase motivation. Satisfaction and performance contributes to the teams or groups satisfaction in the organization that includes perks. By increasing the team’s satisfaction such as flexibility, rewards, and fulfillment and working environment it will also increase the performance of the team. Employees’ determine that they are satisfied if...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence University of Phoenix LDR 531 November 22, 2010 Creating a Plan for Positive Influence The Learning Team has been assigned a large project. A plan will be created that may be applied in a business setting and would increase the team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance. Specific differences in attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values will be addressed in collaboration. How each difference influences behavior will be discussed. How these differences will be effectively implemented in the plan to positively influence the team will be discussed. All team environments can be challenging. In order for the team to work together, the team must realize one another’s personalities. Every team member must be aware of his or her own personality and how he or she will work into the team. The personality characteristics must be understood as in relation to the other team member’s personalities. Learning one’s own personality will enable the team to not only learn about themselves but better work with other team personalities. Motivation, Satisfaction, and Performance In order to increase the team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance one must maintain a well-balanced order. A brainstorm activity with the team to discover one another’s characteristic traits from a creative forum would be a starting point. By learning one another’s creative side one can gain the insight into what the individual really has a passion...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence LDR/531 December 14, 2012 Creating a Plan for Positive Influence The objective of this paper is to create a plan for positive influence that may be applied in a business setting and that would increase a group or team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance. The topics of discussion will concentrate on specific attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values that the members of the team will collaborate with, and address how each difference influences behavior within the business setting. In a business setting there are three essential factors that team members need so that they increase productivity and a constructive business environment. Additionally, the leader in the team setting must make certain that the members are inspired to complete the task by motivation. Next the norms must be set so that the team understands what is acceptable and what will not be, and agreed upon by each member. The agreement on the acceptable standards will influence the members’ behavior with the least amount of external controls. According to (Robbins & Judge, 2011, pg. 285-286), “norms are acceptable standards of behavior within a group that are shared by the group’s members.” Motivation The three key elements of motivation are direction, intensity, and persistence. Intensity describes the passion a person has about the designated task; this is the element most individuals focus on when thinking about motivation. However, the intensity...
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...Planning for Positive Influence LDR/531 Business Law Traci Stevenson Instructor: Rovella Phillips May 27, 2013 Abstract Our team has been assign a project that will take one year to complete. To have a successful work experience and get the job done there are factors that we must consider. Start by creating a plan to increase motivation, satisfaction and performance. We must start also by evaluating each team member attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values and how they influence behavior. Diversity is in the workplace and it is necessary to improve the value of effort from each individual on the team. The three elements in a business setting to making goals achievable are motivation, satisfaction, and performance. This paper is to prepare a plan and apply it in a business setting in increasing the performance, satisfaction and motivation of all members of a team. Throughout the paper will be addressing the differences in motivation and personalities discover in team collaboration and how each influence behavior. Introduction When working in a group there is various types of teams that are found in many settings. Regardless of the setting of the team, accepting and appreciating the similarities and differences of the teammates can contribute more effectively and improve productivity as a whole. Creating a plan that will influence organization positively is important for management in an organization. Teams need to understand the objectives of the task and know...
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...Motivation Plan Jonathan Grace LDR/531 September 23, 2014 Edythe McNickle Motivation Plan In today world every business organization has a diverse workforce and each employee has a specific motivation and emotion. Understanding the challengers involved in creating an environment that combines the employees’ motivation, satisfactions, and job performance in an organized and an effective workplace is what a good manager should understand. A manager must create a plan incorporating the employees’ job satisfaction, motivation, and performance. The perception of both managers and employees are ensuring that the viewpoints are incorporated into the plan for optimistic influence. According to Robbins and Judge (2013), “Motivation is the method that accounts for a direction, individual intensify, and persistence of an effort toward a specific goal. Satisfaction is defined as the “fulfillment of a need or want” and performance is defined as “the execution of an action or fulfillment of a clam, promise, or request.” Motivation, satisfaction, and performance are important aspects that a manger must utilize with people and each aspect can be define as a success or failure of the employees or as a team. The manager will be able to increase an employee motivation, satisfaction, and performance, if a manager has a positive influence within his or her span of control. Most manager can influence a variation of tools in increasing and gauging employee motivation, satisfaction...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence Stephanie Sparks LDR/531 May 14, 2011 Dr. Elmer Hall In this paper, a plan will describe ways in which a team can collaborate to increase the team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance in a business setting. Specifically, the plan will demonstrate how similarities and differences in attitudes, emotions, personalities and values can be used to positively influence the team within the work environment. Attitudes Employees with high scores in the participation of their job really value and care about the quality of the work they perform and how it is related within the organization. They have a good attitude toward their job. Employees who score low in the participation of jobs will not care about how well they complete their job. They will not even care about their boss thinks about how they perform their job. It is known that managers who have positive attitudes can in turn motivate his or her employees. According to Judge & Robbins, this increases job performance. To motivate employees, managers should provide trainings as well as try to include employees in making decisions. This will provide them with an opportunity to provide their input on various issues. Sometimes, people have to modify their behavior because of certain situations. I heard a Social Worker describe an accomplishment made at a conference. When working with challenging...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence Daniel E Fulgencio Mota University of Phoenix LDR/531 Organizational Leadership March 28, 2013 Prof. Miguel A Rodriguez, PhD Creating a Plan for Positive Influence Business model has change dramatically lately. These days are more common for the organizations to use team work or small subunits, also known as department or section formed specifically to perform specific task for achieving different goals in the company. This document proposes will cover several topics concerning to the design of an effective plan to increase team motivation, satisfaction and performance. How the different attitudes, emotions and, personalities may affect the good performance of group and the tools managers can use to alleviate this situations. Designing and effective Team Before defining a strategy to form and effective team it is important to know fundamentals aspects about team or groups. There are two types of groups formal and informal. This document focused on formal groups. Formal groups are those defined by organizations with the purpose of assigning task to the members of the team for achieving specifics goals. Other important aspect on forming and managing effective teams is the role a leader has for ensuring success of the team. Leaders may improve team performance by influencing and motivating each member of the group. Team performance is strongly related to the level of commitment and motivation members have to achieve...
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...A Plan for Positive Influence LDR/531 – Organizational Leadership January 31, 2011 A Plan for Positive Influence This week assignment was to complete three assessments and create a plan to increase motivation, satisfaction, and performance of a team that could be applied in a business setting. I will address how motivation, satisfaction, and performance are related to each other. Next, I will address specific differences in attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values in the learning team and how it influences behavior. Lastly, I will address how those differences can be implemented to positively influence the team. Motivation, Job Satisfaction, and Performance Motivation can be defined as the processes which account for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort towards a goal (Robbins & Judges, 2007 pp. 186). Motivation positions an individual’s efforts directed to achieve goals and cultivate persistence. Persistence validates how long an individual will dedicate efforts to achieving a set goal. Job satisfaction can be defined as a positive feeling about one’s job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics (Robbins & Judges, 2007 pp. 30). Job satisfaction is subjective towards the nature of work, promotions, salary, supervision, coworkers, and relationships. Performance is standards for an individual’s behavior in the workplace that help them perform effectively. When people are highly motivated it leads to job satisfaction and eventually...
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...A Plan for Positive Influences LDR/531 December 13, 2010 Hoby Follis When it comes to working in team’s it is the attitude, and the contribution that reflects the behavior and outcome in working in teams rather it’s positive or negative. Building successful teams can be very challenging because of the multiple of personalities that’s within a team. Every member of a team rely on each other to perform, and accomplishes his or her task to achieve the team goals, and objectives. All teams are made up as a group of people and a leader to accomplish the team tasks. All team members have multiple characteristics and talents that can to be used as an advantage. In this paper, each learning team members was required to complete self assessments in which results needed to be reported back to the team. This assessment is based from the outcome of each member Disc assessment, and prepares a plan that that will identify how to encourage motivation, satisfaction, and performance in a workplace setting. In addition, it will discuss differentiation of people attitudes, emotions, personalities, and their values. Also, how they can influence team behavior. Lastly, address how it can influence a team positively. Plan for Positive Influence: Managers are put into place for managing positive efficient working environment, enforce rules and regulations, and assist in accomplishes the goals with employees or members in the workplace. In order for this to be accomplished managers must...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence LDR/531 April 25, 2012 Positive Influence In this week’s assignment, the task is to create a plan for positive influence. In this plan it should include the challenges of communication, elements of effective collaboration, conflict management, and a plan for how to mediate the differences in attitudes, emotions, personalities and values within an organization team or group. It will also address how this plan will influence behaviors. Team Task Soul Optics Entertainment is a local music artist booking and management company. It employs around 100 employees, with more than half of the employees being part time contractors, and at least 85% of the employees work remotely. This is a small moderate size group of workers who at times work in small groups or teams. The company CEO has expressed that there needs to be a tighter and a more efficient way of booking and managing artist. There is also an option for Soul Optics to expand its client base in the US and surrounding countries within the next year. This would mean an increase in employee hiring as well. The task is to streamline the existing applications of business practices, and to expand, and enhance more diversity within the company to match the needs and differences of the new and existing clients. Effective Collaboration To address these new needs, company directors were...
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