...Plan for Positive Influence Through various behavioral assessments employers can determine best practices to improve employee motivation, satisfaction, and performance. Measurement tools can include assessments of employee personality traits and characteristics, work behaviors and attitudes, and job involvement and satisfaction. By using the information gathered from these assessments, employers can develop comprehensive plans to improve relational processes to bring together different individuals to work together in productive ways. For example, employees who have differing values, personalities, and emotional intelligence can learn new behavioral patterns to successfully collaborate in the workplace. Team members completed several example assessments to determine behavioral factors such as predominant personality style, emotional intelligence, and attitudes regarding job satisfaction, involvement, and workplace diversity. Employers can use personality assessments to determine how employees will work in some areas (Robbins & Judge, 2007). For example, personality styles of the team were dominant and interactive; indicating that team members would be complimentary when dealing with clients. According to data outlined in the DISC Platinum Rule Behavioral Style Assessment, individuals with interactive personality styles possess skills that are influential with developing relationships to accomplish goals and are more relationship-oriented then task-oriented (Alessandra...
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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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...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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...Running head: Plan for Positive Influence Plan for Positive Influence LDR 531 - Organizational Leadership Dr. William C. Shearer August 23, 2010 In light of the recent endeavor Learning Team D has been tasked with, a plan must be developed to better ensure member retention while providing the necessary support to motivate members and nurture their continued growth and development. This paper will detail a Plan for Positive Influence that will increase team motivation, satisfaction, and performance. The first element of this plan is to implement an effective appraisal system. An effective appraisal system “provides an opportunity to set goals, clarify expectations, reinforce a job well done, initiate change, and foster a healthy working relationship between supervisor and employee” (Ditzler, 1994, para. 2). Strategic control is also enhanced with such a system. “An effective performance appraisal system assures that feedback is provided on a continuous basis, not in the form of a written annual evaluation, but in the form of daily, weekly, and monthly comments from an employee’s supervisor or manager”(Caruth & Humphreys, 2008, p.27). To promote open communication and constructive feedback, team members will have a bi- weekly one on one meeting with their immediate manager. During this meeting, manager and employee will initiate and follow-up on discussions regarding employee performance (as to what is being done well and what requires improvement), training...
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...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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...The definition of teamwork is “work done by a number of associates with usually each doing a clearly defined portion but all subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole” (Teamwork Motivation, 2010). A team has a common goal to solve a problem and build ideas of how to solve the problem. Team C will create a plan to have positive influence and address attitudes, personalities, emotions, and values as well as positive and negative behavior in a business team environment. The assessments completed by each of our team members shows the attitudes, personalities, values and emotions are very different and show weaknesses and strengths that will be used to create a plan to positively influence a team. A process that accounts for persistence in attaining a goal, direction and a person’s intensity is known as motivation. Motivation sets a direction to help employees to do the job well and to take ownership for their performance (Teamwork Motivation, 2010). A business without motivation could suffer from employee’s failure to apply efficiency and performance. If there is no incentive’s such as financial and non-financial rewards the employee’s have no reason to perform. Examples of motivational tools are job enlargement, job rotation and job enrichment. Job satisfaction occurs when employees are content and happy to perform well for the business. Employees enjoy a challenge using their abilities, skills and mind: performance is associated with job satisfaction...
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...Positive Influence Plan Positive Influence Plan Different personalities of team members influence team dynamics and performance. Varying levels of motivation can change team objectives, and work satisfaction can translate in how the team successfully or unsuccessfully accomplishes the intended purpose. A working knowledge of how these factors can influence a team’s performance is an immense asset for managers and team leaders to understand. This plan of positive influence emphasizes the prospect of increasing team performance by means of identifying how these factors are associated with individual personal attitudes, emotions, and values. This plan will summarize the way we plan to use these influences and provides conclusions related to positive influence in team performance. Planning to increase a team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance requires an understanding of how motivation drives team performance. When working on extended projects this becomes even more important as the team progress through the different phases of project completion. When individual team members are not satisfied with his or her job they are usually not comfortable with the team concept. Using the attitudes, emotions, values, and personalities of employees to motivate their team performance creates a cohesive and efficient team that will grow as the project progress...
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...Running head: CREATING A PLAN FOR POSITIVE INFLUENCE Creating a Plan for Positive Influence There are many attributes that need to be looked at concerning either a small or large project such as an individual’s personality, effort, involvement, and a person’s style. In teams, no one person works or thinks alike and each member will contribute to some way or another. It was obvious that some of the team attitudes were very much alike, such as the involvement that the team will put into our work based on mixing professionalism and personal life. In teams, no one person works or thinks alike and each member will contribute to some way or another. The assessment helped to target where an individual could best fit into a project and what weaknesses need to be developed. With different attitudes and personalities it is essential for everyone to influence the team positively. Though everyone is different there were some similarities on the assessment. One similarity that stood out was how involved we are in our work, and how hard we tried to separate our work lives from our personal lives. This type of personality can be beneficial when it comes to working on projects as a person needs to be focused and dedicated. There are many roles within a team, such as leadership which needs a person who is efficient and has structure; a second role is interacting that can help with giving ideas or one that can be able to complete different tasks. If all individuals contribute...
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...Plan for Positive Influence Jake Cline-Norton LDR 531 April 2 2012 Steven Gray Plan for Positive Influence In order to succeed in today’s business environment a company needs to realize that the employees are the most important asset the company has. Employees can make a company successful or cause the company to fail. To help ensure the success of both a company and its employees a company must keep its employees motivated and satisfied to increase the productivity and performance of the employees. “We define motivation as the processes that account for an individual’s intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal.5 while general motivation is concerned with effort toward any goal, we’ll narrow the focus to organizational goals in order to reflect our singular interest in work-related behavior The three key elements in our definition of motivation are intensity, direction, and persistence. Intensity describes how hard a person tries. This is the element most of us focus on when we talk about motivation. However, high intensity is unlikely to lead to favorable job-performance outcomes unless the effort is channeled in a direction that benefits the organization. Therefore, we consider the quality of effort as well as its intensity. Effort directed toward, and consistent with, the organization’s goals is the kind of effort we should be seeking. Finally, motivation has a persistence dimension. This measures how long a person can maintain effort...
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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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...Plan for Positive Influence in the Workplace Influencing is committing oneself to work successfully with others. Influencing is using a range of skills to get work complete and maintain good relationships with others. This plan will address specific differences and how each difference influences behavior in the attitudes, emotions, personalities, and values of people to collaborate with in the workplace. Also, the differences will be addressed on how to effectively address these behaviors to positively influence the team. Differences Attitude is the way people feel about their work and the approach that is taken towards the work. Others can feel the belief through another’s attitude towards work. A positive attitude can be a transfer of feelings to others. Attitudes are focused around three components; beliefs, intentions, and feelings. Attitudes can be addressed by creating the proper workplace climate, establish rules of discipline, overcoming resistance to change, and dealing with age and cultural differences. A change in a person’s thinking is the best way to make a change in others people’s life and workplace. People’s attitudes are affected by organizational changes, life imbalances, less social interactions, and new technologies. These can affect a person’s attitude to be negative in the workplace. To address these stresses, organizations need to develop employees through training and group meetings. Emotions are experienced daily in workplace among all workers....
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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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...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 job and organizational performance.” (p. 96). The employees need to be committed to the...
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...Creating a Plan for Positive Influence Sandra Frieze University of Phoenix Creating a Plan for Positive Influence The effect of a positive influence plan in a business can transform a working environment, especially when a team needs to work together for a period of one year before the project is complete. Productivity increases, customers are more satisfied and new clients are attracted to the company. A manager must take time to fully develop and implement a plan based on positive influence. This is accomplished through self-analysis, daily efforts in role modeling and instilling positive behaviors in workers. These types of initiatives create a motivated and dedicated team. Positive Behaviors Assess yourself critically in terms of your own positive behavior. As the manager, you are the role model for your employees so you need to correct and address issues, such as pessimistic language, in a timely manner. If a negative issue comes up, it is important to address and resolve the issue in as much of a positive way as possible. Establishing and keeping a positive atmosphere and environment can take some effort. Encourage your employees to become more positive in little ways like smiling more, speaking in an upbeat tone and thanking co-workers more often for their contributions. Beyond being positive, work to keep your team enthusiastic about the project. The assigned project’s timeline is long and employees can get distracted and discouraged when the project does...
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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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